Research PapersICSA 2024

Accepted Papers

	Title
	A data-flow oriented software architecture for heterogeneous marine data streamsResearch Paper Research Papers A: Keila Lima, A: Ngoc-Thanh Nguyen, A: Rogardt Heldal, A: Lars Kristensen , A: Tosin Daniel Oyetoyan, A: Patrizio Pelliccione, A: Eric Knauss
	A Message Broker Architecture for Adaptive Data Exchange in the IoTShort Paper Research Papers A: Houssam Hajj Hassan, A: Georgios Bouloukakis, A: Luca Scalzotto , A: Nirmine Khaled , A: Denis Conan, A: Ajay Kattepur, A: Djamel Belaïd
	A Proposal for a Models-meet-Data Repository For Digital Twins in Construction EngineeringShort Paper Research Papers A: Philipp Zech, A: Philipp Pobitzer , A: Georg Fröch , A: Ruth Breu
	Architectural Design Decisions for Self-Serve Data Platforms in Data MeshesResearch Paper Research Papers A: Tom van Dijk , A: Indika Kumara, A: Dario Di Nucci, A: Damian Andrew Tamburri, A: Willem-Jan van den Heuvel Pre-print File Attached
	Automated Reverse Engineering for MoM-based Microservices (ARE4MOM) using static analysisResearch Paper Research Papers A: Snigdha Singh, A: Anne Koziolek
	Automating the Evaluation of Interoperability Effectiveness in Heterogeneous IoT SystemsResearch Paper Research Papers A: Georgios Bouloukakis, A: Nikolaos Georgantas, A: Ajay Kattepur, A: Houssam Hajj Hassan, A: Valerie Issarny
	Blockchain interoperability patternsShort Paper Research Papers A: Guzmán Llambías, A: Laura González, A: Raul Ruggia , A: Guzmán Llambías
	Can LLMs Generate Architectural Design Decisions? - An Exploratory Empirical studyResearch Paper Research Papers A: Rudra Dhar, A: Karthik Vaidhyanathan, A: Vasudeva Varma Pre-print
	CCDUIT: A Software Overlay for Cross-Federation Collaboration between Data SpacesShort Paper Research Papers A: Nikolaos Papadakis , A: Georgios Bouloukakis, A: Kostas Magoutis
	Characterizing Software Architectural Metrics for Continuous Compliance in the Automotive DomainResearch Paper Research Papers A: Tiziano Santilli, A: Marco De Luca , A: Patrizio Pelliccione, A: Domenico Amalfitano, A: Anna Rita Fasolino
	Continuous conformance of software architecturesResearch Paper Research Papers A: Alessio Bucaioni, A: Amleto Di Salle, A: Ludovico Iovino, A: Leonardo Mariani, A: Patrizio Pelliccione
	Detecting Usage of Deprecated Web APIs via TracingResearch Paper Research Papers A: Leif Bonorden, A: André van Hoorn Pre-print File Attached
	Experimental Evaluation of Energy Efficiency Tactics in Industry: Results and Lessons LearnedResearch Paper Research Papers A: Markus Funke, A: Patricia Lago, A: Esther Adenekan, A: Ivano Malavolta, A: Ilja Heitlager Pre-print
	Exploring sustainable alternatives for the deployment of microservices architectures in the cloudResearch Paper Research Papers A: Vittorio Cortellessa, A: Daniele Di Pompeo, A: Michele Tucci
	How Do Microservice API Patterns Impact Understandability? A Controlled ExperimentResearch Paper Research Papers A: Justus Bogner, A: Olaf Zimmermann, A: Pawel Wójcik Pre-print
	Informed and Assessable Observability Design Decisions in Cloud-native Microservice ApplicationsResearch Paper Research Papers A: Maria C Borges, A: Joshua Bauer, A: Sebastian Werner, A: Michael Gebauer, A: Stefan Tai Pre-print
	MAGNET: Method-based Approach using Graph Neural Network for Microservices IdentificationResearch Paper Research Papers A: Imen Trabelsi, A: Naouel Moha, A: Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, A: Lucas Geffard
	RESTRuler: Towards Automatically Identifying Violations of RESTful Design Rules in Web APIsResearch Paper Research Papers A: Justus Bogner, A: Sebastian Kotstein, A: Daniel Abajirov, A: Timothy Ernst , A: Manuel Merkel Pre-print
	Sarch-Checks: A Method for Checking Software Architecture Security Properties using a Knowledge GraphShort Paper Research Papers A: Jeisson Andrés Vergara Vargas, A: Felipe Restrepo-Calle , A: Salah Sadou, A: Chouki Tibermacine
	Smart HPA: A Resource-Efficient Horizontal Pod Auto-scaler for Microservice ArchitecturesResearch Paper Research Papers A: Hussain Ahmad, A: Christoph Treude, A: Markus Wagner , A: Claudia Szabo
	Supporting Architectural Decision Making on Training Strategies in Reinforcement Learning ArchitecturesResearch Paper Research Papers A: Evangelos Ntentos, A: Stephen John Warnett, A: Uwe Zdun
	Towards Responsible Generative AI: A Reference Architecture for Designing Foundation Model based AgentsShort Paper Research Papers A: Qinghua Lu, A: Liming Zhu, A: Xiwei (Sherry) Xu, A: Zhenchang Xing, A: Stefan Harrer , A: Jon Whittle
	We're Drifting Apart: Architectural Drift from the Developers' PerspectiveResearch Paper Research Papers A: Emilie Anthony, A: Astrid Berntsson, A: Tiziano Santilli, A: Rebekka Wohlrab

Call for Papers

The IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA) is the premier gathering of practitioners and researchers interested in software architecture, component-based software engineering, and quality aspects of complex software systems. The 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2024) continues the tradition of a working conference, where practitioners and researchers meet and where software architects can explain the challenges they face and try to influence the future of the field. Interactive working sessions will be the place where researchers meet practitioners to identify opportunities to create the future.

Recent advances in capabilities and availability of generative artificial intelligence (AI) now allow users to generate text, source code, graphics, videos, and 3D models based on natural language descriptions. Software architects are already starting to use these tools to rationalize design decisions, to explore technology options, to synthesize source code based on patterns, and to generate architecture diagrams. The theme of ICSA 2024 is thus “Software Architecture in the Age of Generative AI”. The conference welcomes contributions exploring the potentials and risks of this new technology for software architecture. We are particularly interested in soliciting papers describing novel tools, techniques, and methods to support software architects using generative AI. We are also looking for software and system architecture case studies that successfully or unsuccessfully applied this new technology.

Besides the main theme, we call on both researchers and practitioners for contributions that advance our understanding of architectures in real-world software, facilitate empirical research by making architectural artifacts and tools publicly available, and promote replicability of results through common datasets and benchmarks. We welcome original papers that explore and explain the role of architecture in current systems and future systems. This conference looks at what can be learned from our software architecture history, experience, studies, and best practices.

Important Dates

• Abstracts due: November 24th, 2023
• Full papers due: December 1st, 2023
• Notification of acceptance: February 4th, 2024
• Camera-ready due: February 18th, 2024

Notes: All deadlines are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth)

Topics

• Requirements & Architecture
• Stakeholder management and collaborating with other domains
• Stakeholder management and collaborating with other domains
• Linking architecture to requirements and/or implementation
• Methods to address the intertwining of specification and design
• Sustainability, ethics, business, financial, and managerial aspects of software architecture
• Architecture Design
• Model-driven architecture
• Component-based software engineering
• Architecture frameworks and architecture description languages
• Reusable architectural solutions & architecture knowledge management
• Cloud-native Computing & Architecture
• Microservices & containerization
• Serverless platforms & novel forms of virtualization (WASM, MicroVMs, etc.)
• Event-driven architectures
• Observability & Distributed Tracing
• Architecture Evaluation
• Evaluating quality aspects (e.g., security, performance, reliability, evolvability)
• AI/ML techniques for architecture
• Architecture conformance checking
• Lightweight evaluation methods
• Architecture & Life-cycle
• Automatic extraction and generation of software architecture descriptions
• Architecture & continuous integration/delivery, and DevOps
• Refactoring and evolving architecture design decisions and solutions
• Agile architecting, continuous architecting, and other approaches to architecting
• Architecture & Architects
• Roles and responsibilities for software architects
• Training, soft skills, coaching, mentoring, education, and certification
• Architecture for equality, diversity and inclusion
• State-of-the-art and state-of-practice in software architecture
• Architecture for specific types of systems, such as:
• Edge / Fog / Internet of Things (IoT) systems / IoB systems
• AI / ML systems & systems using blockchains
• Cyber-physical systems
• Self-adaptive & autonomous systems
• Architecture & Generative AI:
• Design assistance & identification of architectural patterns
• Decision making support, comparing technologies, evaluating trade-offs
• Generating source code to facilitate implementing architecture designs
• Reviewing designs, identifying inconsistencies, and suggesting improvements

Open Science Principles

Authors have an additional choice to make, in that they can either:

1. opt to make data and/or code available; in this case, if accepted, their paper will be automatically submitted to AET for check of criteria, and whether badges can be assigned to the paper; or
2. opt not to make their research artifacts and datasets accessible to the program committee; in that case, authors are asked to comment in their submitted paper on why this is not possible, practical, or desirable. This statement should be included at the end of the introduction section and may be deleted in the final version of the paper if accepted. Possible reasons may involve privacy restrictions and/or non-disclosure agreements.

Sharing of research artifacts is desired but not mandatory for submission or acceptance. The program committee members, however, may use this information to inform their decision.

Submission

We solicit the submission of technical research papers that describe original and significant results of theoretical, empirical, conceptual, or experimental work in software architecture. The submissions will be evaluated based on novelty, soundness, significance/relevance, open science principles (as outlined above), and presentation quality, in that order. All submissions must conform to the IEEE paper formatting and submission instructions and must not exceed 10 pages for the main text, inclusive of all figures, tables, appendices, etc. Two additional pages containing only references are permitted. The submissions must conform to the author instructions as well as to the IEEE Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Generated Text

Please note that ICSA 2024 will pursue a double-blind review process for technical research papers only, therefore all technical research paper submissions have to fulfill the double-blind reviewing requirements. Submissions that disregard these review requirements will be desk-rejected without review. For artifacts that will be published following the open science principles (see above), we ask that authors undertake reasonable, possibly non-exhaustive steps to not disclose their identity, e.g., by anonymizing author names, handles, affiliations, and URLs. Leakage of information in additional artifacts will not lead to desk rejection. Reviewers will be asked to treat artifacts and papers as confidential.

All papers are to be submitted electronically via the EasyChair submission system by the submission deadline, and must not have been published before or be submitted for review elsewhere while under consideration at ICSA. All submissions will be checked with an anti-plagiarism tool.

Publication

Research Track Chairs

Romina Spalazzese, Malmö University, Sweden
Heiko Koziolek, ABB Research, Germany