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ECSA 2020
Mon 14 - Fri 18 September 2020 L'Aquila, Italy

In recent years, prominent software companies have succeeded to grow by creating ecosystems of third-party providers and users around their software platforms. The overall well-functioning of such ecosystems is referred to as ecosystem health that is the result of a complex range of architectural design decisions at business and technical levels. Despite a body of work considering the architecture of software ecosystems, there is still a lack of solid methods with a precise foundation to facilitate architectural decision-making by providing automated techniques and tools. To fill this gap, we present SecoArc, which is a pattern-centric ecosystem modeling framework for architecting healthy software ecosystems. In this paper, we focus on the SecoArc modeling language, analysis technique, and a ready-to-use tool. SecoArc makes the architectural knowledge of well-established existing ecosystems available that enables platform providers to assess architectural suitability with respect to the quality attributes of ecosystem health and to deeply compare several competing architectures. We show the application of the SecoArc framework in a case study.

Wed 16 Sep

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12:00 - 13:00
S2: Model-based ApproachesPaper Presentations / Journal First / Industry Program / Workshops / Research Papers / JSS Special Issue / Doctoral Symposium / Gender Diversity in SA / Tool Demos / Social at ECSA 2020 Teams Channel
Chair(s): Rafael Capilla Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Manuel Wimmer Johannes Kepler University Linz

Virtualization support: Claudio Di Sipio

12:00
20m
Empowering SysML-based Software Architecture Description with Formal Verification: From SysADL to CSPResearch Track
Research Papers
Fagner Dias Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Marcel Oliveira Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Thais Batista Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Everton Cavalcante Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Jair Leite Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Flavio Oquendo IRISA (UMR CNRS) - Univ. Bretagne-Sud (UBS), Camila Araújo State University of Rio Grande do Norte
12:20
20m
A Flexible Architecture for the Key Performance Indicators Assessment in Smart CitiesResearch Track
Research Papers
Martina De Sanctis Gran Sasso Science Institute, Ludovico Iovino Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Maria Teresa Rossi Gran Sasso Science Institute, Manuel Wimmer Johannes Kepler University Linz
12:40
20m
SecoArc: A Framework for Architecting Healthy Software EcosystemsTool Demo
Tool Demos
Bahar Schwichtenberg Paderborn University, Gregor Engels Paderborn University