ECSA 2020 Best Paper Award goes to: Mauro Caporuscio, Mirko D’Angelo, Vincenzo Grassi and Raffaela Mirandola for the paper titled Decentralized Architecture for Energy-aware Service Assembly

ECSA 2020 Best Tool Demo Award goes to: Jason Mashinchi and Javier Camara for the paper titled Voyager: Software Architecture Trade-off Explorer

Congratulations to the award winners as well as to all the candidates

The good news is that ECSA 2020 proceedings are made available free for all registered participants of both Workshops and Main conference. It is accessible from the Files -> ECSA 2020 Proceedings folder in the General channel of both ECSA 2020 - Main conference and ECSA 2020 - workshops teams.

The online version of Springer CCIS proceedings can be accessed from here

The online version of Springer LNCS proceedings can be accessed from here

The ECSA 2020 committee has announced the candidates for the best paper awards:

Candidates for the best paper

• Nacha Chondamrongkul, Jing Sun and Ian Warren, Formal Software Architectural Migration Towards Emerging Architectural Styles

• Mauro Caporuscio, Mirko D’Angelo, Vincenzo Grassi and Raffaela Mirandola, Decentralized Architecture for Energy-aware Service Assembly

• Federico Giaimo and Christian Berger, Continuous Experimentation for Automotive Software on the Example of a Heavy Commercial Vehicle in Daily Operation

Candidates for the best tool demo

• Jason Mashinchi and Javier Camara, Voyager: Software Architecture Trade-o ff Explorer

• Sandro Speth, Uwe Breitenbücher and Steffen Becker, Gropius - A Tool for Managing Cross-Component Issues

Dear colleagues, software architects and all those sympathetic to the topic,

This is to inform you that ECSA 2020 will be hosted virtually from September 14-18 2020.

What I learned is that in a period of uncertainties, it is important to come out with solutions that can create certainties. While we were all hoping to welcome you to L’Aquila in September, we still do not have (and nobody has) the due guarantees about the COVID-19 situation in mid-September. After discussing this point with the ECSA 2020 Organizing Committee as well as with the ECSA Steering Committee, I inform you that ECSA 2020 will be run virtually.

We have already designed a virtual conference model that will maximize discussion, interactiveness, and will also give you some experience of the city and our culture. It will not be the same as a physical conference, still, it will provide you all with the instruments to get in contact with other researchers and will also represent a concrete link to our culture and the city.

Meanwhile, we received (so far) 98 contributions to all tracks. So, we expect a vibrant and rich program.

As already stated in my previous announcement, all accepted contributions will be published by Springer. We have already initiated the publication process, which will be completed by August 03rd.

See you all in September!

All the best,
Henry Muccini
ECSA 2020 General Chair

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