Dates
Tracks
Wed 2 AprDisplayed time zone: Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris change
Wed 2 Apr
Displayed time zone: Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris change
09:00 - 10:00 | Breakfast / PostersResearch Papers / Working Sessions / Software Architecture in Practice / Early Career Track / Journal First / New and Emerging Ideas / Poster Track / Keynote at Campus Square | ||
10:00 - 10:30 | ICSA 2025 OpeningResearch Papers / Working Sessions / Software Architecture in Practice / Early Career Track / Journal First / New and Emerging Ideas / Poster Track / Keynote at Main Hall (O100) Chair(s): Kasper Hallenborg , Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard University of Southern Denmark, Len Bass Carnegie Mellon University, Jan Bosch Chalmers University of Technology, Raffaela Mirandola Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Mahyar T. Moghaddam University of Southern Denmark | ||
11:30 - 12:30 | |||
12:30 - 13:30 | Microservices and Cloud-Native Architectures IResearch Papers at Hall 2 (U82) Chair(s): Davide Taibi University of Oulu | ||
12:30 15mResearch paper | Architecture and Performance Antipatterns Correlation in Microservice Architectures Research Papers Alberto Avritzer eSulabSolutions, Andrea Janes Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Catia Trubiani Gran Sasso Science Institute, Helena Rodrigues Universidade do Minho, Yuanfang Cai Drexel University, Daniel Sadoc Menasché , Álvaro José Abreu de Oliveira Pre-print File Attached | ||
12:45 15mResearch paper | Network Centrality as a New Perspective on Microservice Architecture Research Papers Alexander Bakhtin University of Oulu, Matteo Esposito University of Oulu, Valentina Lenarduzzi University of Oulu, Davide Taibi University of Oulu Pre-print | ||
13:00 15mResearch paper | How Does Microservice Granularity Impact Energy Consumption and Performance? A Controlled Experiment Research Papers Yiming Zhao Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Tiziano De Matteis University of Pisa, Italy, Justus Bogner Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Pre-print | ||
13:15 15mResearch paper | Affinity-aware Serverless Function Scheduling Research Papers Giuseppe De Palma Department of Computer Science and Engineering - Università di Bologna, Saverio Giallorenzo Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna / INRIA, Jacopo Mauro University of Southern Denmark, Matteo Trentin Università di Bologna, Gianluigi Zavattaro Department of Computer Science and Engineering - Università di Bologna Pre-print | ||
12:30 - 13:30 | AI and Machine Learning in Software Architecture IResearch Papers / New and Emerging Ideas at Main Hall (O100) Chair(s): Henry Muccini University of L'Aquila, Italy | ||
12:30 15mResearch paper | LLMs for Generation of Architectural Components: An Exploratory Empirical Study in the Serverless World Research Papers | ||
12:45 15mResearch paper | Enabling Architecture Traceability by LLM-based Architecture Component Name Extraction Research Papers Dominik Fuchß Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Haoyu Liu Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Tobias Hey Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Jan Keim Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Anne Koziolek Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Link to publication Media Attached | ||
13:00 15mPaper | A Functional Software Reference Architecture for LLM-Integrated Systems New and Emerging Ideas Alessio Bucaioni Mälardalen University, Martin Weyssow DIRO, Université de Montréal, Junda He Singapore Management University, Yunbo Lyu Singapore Management University, David Lo Singapore Management University Pre-print | ||
13:15 15mResearch paper | Do Large Language Models Contain Software Architectural Knowledge? An Exploratory Case Study with GPT Research Papers | ||
15:00 - 15:30 | |||
15:30 - 16:00 | Barbora Bühnová MemorialResearch Papers / Working Sessions / Software Architecture in Practice / Early Career Track / Journal First / New and Emerging Ideas / Poster Track / Keynote at Main Hall (O100) | ||
16:00 - 17:00 | |||
18:00 - 19:00 | City Tour - in front of the city hallResearch Papers / Working Sessions / Software Architecture in Practice / Early Career Track / Journal First / New and Emerging Ideas / Poster Track / Keynote at City Hall (Flakhaven) | ||
18:00 60mSocial Event | City Tour Research Papers | ||
19:00 - 21:00 | Reception 19:00-21:00 - at ODEON - Bar is open until 23:00Research Papers / Working Sessions / Software Architecture in Practice / Early Career Track / Journal First / New and Emerging Ideas / Poster Track / Keynote | ||
19:00 2hTalk | Reception Research Papers | ||
Thu 3 AprDisplayed time zone: Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris change
Thu 3 Apr
Displayed time zone: Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris change
08:30 - 09:00 | |||
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break / PostersResearch Papers / Working Sessions / Software Architecture in Practice / Early Career Track / Journal First / New and Emerging Ideas / Poster Track / Keynote at Campus Square | ||
10:30 - 11:30 | Security and Privacy in Software ArchitectureResearch Papers at Hall 2 (U82) Chair(s): Andres Diaz Pace UNICEN University | ||
10:30 15mResearch paper | Mining Security Documentation Practices in OpenAPIs Descriptions Research Papers Diana Munoz , Souhaila Serbout University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Cesare Pautasso Software Institute, Faculty of Informatics, USI Lugano Pre-print File Attached | ||
10:45 15mResearch paper | Data-Centric Model for Architecture’s Vulnerabilities Analysis Research Papers | ||
11:00 15mResearch paper | An Architecture-Based Approach to Mitigate Confidentiality Violations Using Machine Learning Research Papers Nils Niehues Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Sebastian Hahner Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Robert Heinrich Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Pre-print | ||
11:15 15mResearch paper | TrustMesh: A Blockchain-Enabled Trusted Distributed Computing Framework for Open Heterogeneous IoT Environments Research Papers DOI Pre-print File Attached | ||
11:30 - 12:30 | |||
12:30 - 13:30 | Software Development Practices and Technical Debt IResearch Papers / New and Emerging Ideas at Main Hall (O100) Chair(s): Torben Worm University of Southern Denmark | ||
12:30 15mPaper | Axiomatic Software Architecture New and Emerging Ideas | ||
12:45 15mResearch paper | Debiasing Architectural Decision-Making: An Experiment With Students and Practitioners Research Papers Klara Borowa Warsaw University of Technology, Rodrigo Rebouças de Almeida Federal University of Paraiba, Marion Wiese University of Hamburg, Germany Pre-print | ||
13:00 15mResearch paper | Tracing the Lifecycle of Architecture Technical Debt in Software Systems: A Dependency Approach Research Papers Edi Sutoyo Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, Paris Avgeriou University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Andrea Capiluppi Brunel University | ||
13:15 15mResearch paper | Architecture as Code Research Papers Alessio Bucaioni Mälardalen University, Amleto Di Salle Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), Ludovico Iovino Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy, Patrizio Pelliccione Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy, Franco Raimondi Middlesex University Pre-print | ||
15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break / PostersResearch Papers / Working Sessions / Software Architecture in Practice / Early Career Track / Journal First / New and Emerging Ideas / Poster Track / Keynote at Campus Square | ||
17:00 - 18:30 | |||
19:00 - 22:00 | |||
Fri 4 AprDisplayed time zone: Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris change
Fri 4 Apr
Displayed time zone: Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris change
08:30 - 09:00 | |||
10:00 - 10:30 | |||
10:30 - 11:30 | Software Architecture Experimentation and Practice INew and Emerging Ideas / Software Architecture in Practice / Research Papers at Hall 2 (U82) Chair(s): Sebastian Werner TU Berlin, Germany | ||
10:30 15mResearch paper | Performance Analysis of Architectural Patterns for Federated Learning Systems Research Papers Ivan Compagnucci Gran Sasso Science Institute, Riccardo Pinciroli Gran Sasso Science Institute, Catia Trubiani Gran Sasso Science Institute Pre-print | ||
10:45 15mPaper | An Architecture and Protocol for Decentralized Retrieval Augmented Generation New and Emerging Ideas Tobias Hecking , Thorsten Sommer , Michael Felderer German Aerospace Center (DLR) & University of Cologne | ||
11:00 15mPaper | Fast and Efficient What-If Analyses of Invocation Overhead and Transactional Boundaries to Support the Migration to Microservices New and Emerging Ideas Pre-print | ||
11:15 15mPaper | Extensible Experimentation Platform: Effective A/B Test Analysis at Scale Software Architecture in Practice | ||
10:30 - 11:30 | Software Patterns and Architectural Design Principles ISoftware Architecture in Practice / Journal First / Research Papers at Main Hall (O100) Chair(s): Valentina Lenarduzzi University of Oulu | ||
10:30 15mJournal Early-Feedback | Agent design pattern catalogue: A collection of architectural patterns for foundation model based agents Journal First Yue Liu Data61, CSIRO, Sin Kit Lo CSIRO Data61, Qinghua Lu Data61, CSIRO, Liming Zhu CSIRO’s Data61, Dehai Zhao CSIRO's Data61, Xiwei (Sherry) Xu Data61, CSIRO, Stefan Harrer CSIRO's Data61, Jon Whittle CSIRO's Data61 and Monash University | ||
10:45 15mPaper | Recovering Gropius Models with the Cluster Architecture Recovery Assistant Software Architecture in Practice Sandro Speth Institute of Software Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Elias Müller Institute of Software Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Philipp Recke , Niklas Krieger , Steffen Becker University of Stuttgart, Alexander Poth Volkswagen AG, Olsi Rrjolli Volkswagen AG File Attached | ||
11:00 15mPaper | SAPlugin: Management and Extraction of Software Architecture Descriptions in Visual Paradigm Software Architecture in Practice Laurens Sion DistriNet, KU Leuven, Dimitri Van Landuyt KU Leuven, Belgium, Koen Yskout imec - DistriNet, KU Leuven, Wouter Joosen Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | ||
11:15 15mResearch paper | Deicide: Decomposing Complex Classes Into Responsibility Modules Research Papers Jason Lefever Drexel University, Yuanfang Cai Drexel University, Rick Kazman University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Ernst Pisch Drexel University | ||
11:30 - 12:30 | |||
12:30 - 13:30 | Software Patterns and Architectural Design Principles IIResearch Papers / New and Emerging Ideas / Journal First at Main Hall (O100) Chair(s): Jens Bæk Jørgensen Mjølner Informatics | ||
12:30 20mPaper | Toward Bundler-Independent Module Federations: Enabling Typed Micro-Frontend Architectures New and Emerging Ideas Pre-print | ||
12:50 20mJournal Early-Feedback | Software architecture-based self-adaptation in robotics Journal First Elvin Alberts Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Delft University of Technology, Ilias Gerostathopoulos Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Ivano Malavolta Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Carlos Hernández Corbato Delft University of Technology, Patricia Lago Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Link to publication DOI | ||
13:10 20mResearch paper | Improving Clinical Decision Support: Architecture Design of a Multi-agent System based on an Argument Quality Assessment Ontology Research Papers | ||
13:30 - 14:00 | ICSA 2025 ClosingResearch Papers / Working Sessions / Software Architecture in Practice / Early Career Track / Journal First / New and Emerging Ideas / Poster Track / Keynote at Main Hall (O100) Chair(s): Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard University of Southern Denmark, Ipek Ozkaya Carnegie Mellon University | ||
Accepted Papers
Call for Papers
The goal of the New and Emerging Ideas (NEMI) track at ICSA is to encourage the software architecture community to propose new software architecture research visions and ideas, which can potentially challenge the status quo of the software architecture discipline (research and practice) and point to new directions and opportunities.
The ICSA 2025 NEMI track seeks the following types of contributions:
New Ideas
- Visions or exciting new directions supported by a robust and well-motivated scientific foundation or practical application with concrete plans going forward
- Arguments or results that challenge established results or beliefs, providing evidence that calls for fundamentally new directions, opening up new research avenues or software architecture practices
- Thought-provoking reflections, bold and unexpected results, and reflections that can help us look at current research directions in a new light, calling for new directions for future research; bold revisits of current research directions that may be somehow misguided
- Radically new approaches, techniques, or theories that can bring new results to software architecture research or practice; may have yet to be supported by solid experimental results, but are nonetheless supported by strong and well-argued scientific intuitions as well as concrete plans going forward
Emerging Results
- Not yet fully mature research results, which may lack full validation however they should be supported by initial evidence. These initial results should point to important scientific novelty or gaps that can stimulate reflection.
- Startling new results that come in conflict with established results or beliefs, supporting a call for fundamentally new research directions
- Papers that trigger discussion and raise awareness and reflection on specific topics in research and/or practice
Scope of NEMI Track
NEMI provides a forum for innovative, thought-provoking insights in software architecture to accelerate the exposure of the community to early and ongoing yet promising and potentially inspiring innovations in both industry and academia. A NEMI track paper is not just a scaled-down version of an ICSA research track paper. The NEMI track is reserved for first-class contributions that provide novel, soundly motivated directions and emerging results in research and practice.In principle, the track addresses the same software architecture topics of interest as those of the research track. However, NEMI authors are encouraged to combine those topics in new ways to establish connections to other fields outside of classical software architecture, push the boundaries of software architecture to new avenues, as well as to argue for the importance of software architecture research and practice in areas not explicitly listed.
Out of Scope
A NEMI submission should not be just incremental results on existing research, nor disguised advertisements for previously published results, products, tools or methods, or experience reports. ICSA 2025 offers several tracks and workshops where such work can be submitted for the benefits of the ICSA community.Expected Content
NEMI papers must clearly motivate and illustrate a rationale for changing current practice and/or research in software architecture. Evaluation results are not required for NEMI papers (but if such results exist, they may be presented if only to give the reviewers insights into the evaluation plan). Strong argumentation and reasoning are expected to inspire the readers.Papers must include, in the abstract and the introduction, a clear statement about the claimed contribution, i.e., “New Ideas”or “Emerging Results”.
NEMI submissions must include a section titled “Discussion”, including a critical reflection on the new idea or emerging results that explicitly addresses relevant aspects for discussion during the conference. These aspects include, for example, the potential societal impact of the vision, ideas, and/or results proposed; alternatives and their pros and cons in comparison with the proposal; aspects going beyond technical barriers that may affect the feasibility of the submitted proposal, and others. Finally, we require all submissions to the NEMI track to include a section titled “Future Plans”, where the authors outline the work they plan on doing to turn their new idea or emerging results into a full-length paper in the future.
Evaluation
Each submission will be reviewed and evaluated in terms of the following quality criteria:- Value: the problem is worth exploring, ideally inspired by real-world use;
- Impact: the potential for disruption of current practice and/or research;
- Originality: the novelty of insights or ideas/visions; the extent to which the contributions are sufficiently original with respect to the state-of-the-art;
- Scholarship: appropriate consideration of the current literature;
- Evaluation: appropriate consideration of relevant literature and/or research evaluation to demonstrate originality, arguments, and limitations; and
- Quality: overall manuscript quality and how the paper’s quality of writing meets the high standards of ICSA, including explicit descriptions, as well as adequate use of the English language, absence of major ambiguity, clearly readable figures and tables, and adherence to the formatting instructions
New Ideas will also be evaluated based on: Rationale: soundness of the justification, reasoning, and argumentation
Emerging Results will also be evaluated based on: Evaluation: initial evidence; appropriate consideration of relevant literature and/or research evaluation to demonstrate originality, arguments, and limitations
Formatting and Submission
All NEMI submissions must conform to the author Instructions (including the instructions under “Expected Content” above) and must not exceed 5 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures. No double-blind, but single-blind review will apply to NEMI papers. All papers must be submitted electronically via EasyChair (track: ICSA 2025 New and Emerging Ideas) , by the submission deadline. Submissions must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere while under consideration for ICSA 2023 NEMI track. Note that in addition to an oral plenary presentation at the conference, authors of accepted papers may also bring a poster describing their work further to showcase their work to a broader ICSA audience.Important Dates
- Paper Submission: Dec 20, 2024
- Notification of Acceptance: Jan 20, 2025
- Camera-ready Submission: Jan 27, 2025
Publication and Attendance
All accepted contributions will be published in ICSA 2025 Companion proceedings and will appear in IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Note that at least one author of an accepted contribution is required to register and present the work at the conference. In the absence of restrictions, an in-person presentation is required. All submissions must conform to the IEEE paper formatting and submission instructions and must not exceed 5 pages. The submissions must conform to the author instructions as well as to the IEEE Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Generated TextAll papers are to be submitted electronically via the EasyChair (track: ICSA 2025 New and Emerging Ideas) 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.
New and Emerging Ideas Track Chairs
Patrizia Scandurra, University of Bergamo, Italy
Antonio Martini, University of Oslo, Norway
Important Dates AoE (UTC-12h)
| Mon 27 Jan 2025 Camera-ready Submission |
| Mon 20 Jan 2025 Notification of Acceptance |
| Fri 20 Dec 2024 Paper Submission |
Submission Link
Patrizia ScandurraNew and Emerging Ideas Track Co-Chair
University of Bergamo, Italy
Italy
Antonio MartiniNew and Emerging Ideas Track Co-Chair
University of Oslo, Norway
Norway
Nadeem AbbasNEMI Track PC Member
Linnaeus University
Sweden
Francesca Arcelli FontanaNEMI Track PC Member
University of Milano-Bicocca
Hernan AstudilloNEMI Track PC Member
Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile
Chile
Thais BatistaNEMI Track PC Member
Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
Brazil
Thais BatistaNEMI Track PC Member
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN
Brazil
Terese BeskerNEMI Track PC Member
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Sweden
Jalil BoudjadarNEMI Track PC Member
Aarhus University
Denmark
Rafael CapillaNEMI Track PC Member
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Spain
Dario CorrealNEMI Track PC Member
Universidad de Los Andes
Colombia
Martina De SanctisNEMI Track PC Member
Gran Sasso Science Institute
Italy
Andres Diaz PaceNEMI Track PC Member
UNICEN University
Daniel FeitosaNEMI Track PC Member
University of Groningen
Netherlands
Filipe Figueiredo CorreiaNEMI Track PC Member
University of Porto
Portugal
Fabian GilsonNEMI Track PC Member
University of Canterbury
New Zealand
Arda Goknil
SINTEF Digital
Sebastian HeroldNEMI Track PC Member
Karlstad University
Sweden
Leonardo MontecchiNEMI Track PC Member
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Norway
Angelika MusilNEMI Track PC Member
Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien)
Austria
Phu NguyenNEMI Track PC Member
SINTEF
Norway
Gerardo PelosiNEMI Track PC Member
Politecnico di Milano
Italy
Ana PetrovskaNEMI Track PC Member
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Diego PérezNEMI Track PC Member
Linnaeus University
Sweden
Claudia RaibuletNEMI Track PC Member
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Netherlands
Elvinia RiccobeneNEMI Track PC Member
Computer Science Dept., University of Milan
Italy
Dirk RiehleNEMI Track PC Member
U of Erlangen
Lionel SeinturierNEMI Track PC Member
University of Lille
France
Mohamed SolimanNEMI Track PC Member
Paderborn University
Germany
Mahyar T. MoghaddamNEMI Track PC Member
University of Southern Denmark
Denmark
Dimitri Van LanduytNEMI Track PC Member
KU Leuven, Belgium
Belgium
Rainer WeinreichNEMI Track PC Member
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Austria