At ECSA 2020, we aim to focus on how software architecture can enable the success of the next generation of software-enabled systems, especially given the incredible pace artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) components are increasingly becoming part of software systems, as well as the increasing impact of hardware and data in the systems we develop. What are the current research successes that position software architecture at the core of the ability to build and sustain systems of the future? What automation, tools, and techniques do software architects and engineers need in order to ensure architectures developed are evolvable, verifiable, and meet their quality and functional requirements?
Wed 16 Sep Times are displayed in time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change
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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 CapillaUniversidad Rey Juan Carlos, Manuel WimmerJohannes 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 DiasFederal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Marcel OliveiraFederal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Thais BatistaFederal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Everton CavalcanteFederal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Jair LeiteFederal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Flavio OquendoIRISA (UMR CNRS) - Univ. Bretagne-Sud (UBS), Camila AraújoState 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 SanctisGran Sasso Science Institute, Ludovico IovinoGran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Maria Teresa RossiGran Sasso Science Institute, Manuel WimmerJohannes Kepler University Linz | ||
12:40 20m | SecoArc: A Framework for Architecting Healthy Software EcosystemsTool Demo Tool Demos |
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14:30 - 15:30 | S3: EducationPaper Presentations / Research Papers / Gender Diversity in SA at ECSA 2020 Teams Channel Chair(s): Marina MongielloPolytechnic University of Bari, Anne KoziolekKarlsruhe Institute of Technology Virtualization support: Aurora Macias | ||
14:30 20m | Teaching Students Software Architecture Decision MakingResearch Track Research Papers Rafael CapillaUniversidad Rey Juan Carlos, Olaf ZimmermannUniversity of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland (OST), Carlos CarrilloTechnical University of Madrid, Hernan AstudilloUniversidad Tecnica Federico Santa María | ||
14:50 20m | The PDEng program on Software Technology: Experience report on a doctorate level architecture training programResearch Track Research Papers | ||
15:10 20m | Girl-Friendly Computer Science Classroom: Czechitas Experience ReportGender-Diversity Gender Diversity in SA |
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16:00 - 17:00 | S4: Process and Design DecisionsPaper Presentations / Tool Demos / Journal First at ECSA 2020 Teams Channel Chair(s): Maryam RazavianEindhoven University of Technology, Paris AvgeriouUniversity of Groningen, The Netherlands Virtualization support: Aurora Macias | ||
16:00 20m | Capturing Software Architecture Knowledge for Pattern-Driven DesignJournal-First Journal First Siamak FarshidiUtrecht University, Slinger JansenUtrecht University, Netherlands, Jan Martijn van der WerfUtrecht University | ||
16:20 20m | Implementing Large-Scale Agile Frameworks: Challenges and RecommendationsJournal-First Journal First | ||
16:40 20m | A Decision Support System for Pattern-Driven Software ArchitectureTool Demo Tool Demos |
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09:30 - 10:30 | S5: Industry Track: Architecting contemporary distributed systemsPaper Presentations / Industry Program at ECSA 2020 Teams Channel Chair(s): Olaf ZimmermannUniversity of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland (OST), Anton JansenPhilips Virtualization support: Aurora Macias | ||
09:30 20m | Determining Microservice Boundaries: A Case Study Using Static and Dynamic Software AnalysisIndustry Track Industry Program Tiago MatiasFaculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal, Filipe Figueiredo CorreiaUniversity of Porto, Jonas FritzschInstitute of Software Technology, University of Stuttgart / University of Applied Sciences Reutlingen, Justus BognerInstitute of Software Technology, University of Stuttgart, Hugo Sereno FerreiraFEUP, Universidade do Porto, André RestivoLIACC, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal | ||
09:50 20m | IAS: an IoT Architectural Self-adaptation FrameworkIndustry Track Industry Program Mahyar Tourchi MoghaddamUnivAQ - INRIA, Eric RuttenINRIA, Philippe LalandaUniversity of Grenoble Alpes, Guillaume GIRAUDRTE | ||
10:10 20m | A Comparison of MQTT Brokers for Distributed IoT Edge ComputingIndustry Track Industry Program Heiko KoziolekABB Corporate Research, Sten GrünerABB Corporate Research, Julius RückertABB Corporate Research Pre-print |
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10:30 30m | Working Session with Interactive DiscussionIndustry Track Industry Program |
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11:15 - 12:15 | S6: Industry Track: Experiences and learnings from industrial case studiesPaper Presentations / Industry Program at ECSA 2020 Teams Channel Chair(s): Anton JansenPhilips, Olaf ZimmermannUniversity of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland (OST) Virtualization support: Claudio Di Sipio | ||
11:15 20m | Architectural Concerns for Digital Twin of the OrganizationIndustry Track Industry Program Mauro CaporuscioLinnaeus University, Farid EdrisiLinnaeus University, Margrethe HallbergScania AB, Anton JohannessonVirtual Manufacturing AB, Claudia KopfScania AB, Diego PérezLinnaeus University | ||
11:35 20m | The Quest for Introducing Technical Debt Management in a Large-scale Industrial CompanyIndustry Track Industry Program | ||
11:55 20m | Quick evaluation of a software architecture using the Decision-Centric Architecture Review method: an experience reportIndustry Track Industry Program Pablo CruzUniversidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Hernan AstudilloUniversidad Tecnica Federico Santa María, Luis SalinasDepartment of Informatics, Santa Maria University |
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12:15 30m | Working Session with Interactive DiscussionIndustry Track Industry Program |
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14:30 - 15:30 | S8: Performance and SecurityPaper 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): Nicole LevyConservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Barbora BuhnovaMasaryk University Virtualization support: Roberta Capuano | ||
14:30 20m | Architecture-centric Support for Integrating Security Tool in a Security Orchestration PlatformResearch Track Research Papers | ||
14:50 20m | Securing Software Ecosystem Architectures: Challenges and OpportunitiesJournal-First Journal First | ||
15:10 20m | Data Stream Operations as First-Class Entities in Component-Based Performance ModelsResearch Track Research Papers Dominik WerleKarlsruhe Institute of Technology, Stephan SeifermannKarlsruhe Institute of Technology, Anne KoziolekKarlsruhe Institute of Technology File Attached |
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17:00 - 18:00 | S9: VisualizationPaper Presentations / Tool Demos / Research Papers at ECSA 2020 Teams Channel Chair(s): Antonio MartiniUniversity of Oslo, Norway Virtualization support: Roberta Capuano | ||
17:00 20m | VisArch: Visualization of Performance-based Architectural Refactoringsshort-paperResearch Track Research Papers Catia TrubianiGran Sasso Science Institute, Aldeida AletiMonash University, Sarah GoodwinMonash, Pooyan JamshidiUniversity of South Carolina, André van HoornUniversity of Stuttgart, Samuel GratzlFreelancer | ||
17:20 20m | SQuAT-Vis: Visualization and Interaction in Software Architecture OptimizationTool Demo Tool Demos | ||
17:40 20m | Voyager: Software Architecture Trade-off ExplorerTool Demo Tool Demos |
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21:00 - 21:15 | Best paper and best tool demo AwardsSocial / Paper Presentations / Research Papers at ECSA 2020 Teams Channel | ||
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11:40 - 12:20 | S11: Smells and Technical Debt (I)Paper Presentations / Research Papers at ECSA 2020 Teams Channel Chair(s): Danny WeynsKU Leuven, Jesper AnderssonLinnaeus University Virtualization support: Aurora Macias | ||
11:40 20m | Architectural Technical Debt: A Grounded TheoryResearch Track Research Papers Roberto VerdecchiaVrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Philippe KruchtenUniversity of British Columbia, Patricia LagoVrije Universiteit Amsterdam Pre-print | ||
12:00 20m | An Initial Study on the Association between Architectural Smells and Degradationshort-paperResearch Track Research Papers Sebastian HeroldKarlstad University, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science |
12:20 - 13:00 | S11: Self-adaptation and Uncertainity (I)Paper Presentations / Doctoral Symposium at ECSA 2020 Teams Channel Chair(s): Jesper AnderssonLinnaeus University, Danny WeynsKU Leuven Virtualization support: Aurora Macias | ||
12:20 20m | Decentralized Self-Adaptation in Large-Scaled Systems of SystemsDoctoral Symposium Doctoral Symposium Daniel MatusekTU Dresden | ||
12:40 20m | Systematic Approach To Engineer Decentralized Self-Adaptive SystemsDoctoral Symposium Doctoral Symposium Federico QuinKatholieke Universiteit Leuven |
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14:30 - 15:10 | S12: ApplicationsPaper Presentations / Gender Diversity in SA / Research Papers at ECSA 2020 Teams Channel Chair(s): Elisa Yumi NakagawaUniversity of São Paulo, Matthias GalsterUniversity of Canterbury Virtualization support: Roberta Capuano | ||
14:30 20m | Continuous Experimentation for Automotive Software on the Example of a Heavy Commercial Vehicle in Daily OperationBest paper candidateResearch Track Research Papers | ||
14:50 20m | Mining Gender Bias: A Preliminary Study on Implicit Biases and Gender Identity in the Department of Computer Science at the Technical University of MunichGender-Diversity Gender Diversity in SA Ana PetrovskaTechnical University of Munich, Germany, Patricia GoldbergTechnical University of Munich, Anne Brüggemann-Klein Brüggemann-KleinTechnical University of Munich, Anne NyokabiSiemens AG Pre-print |
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16:10 - 16:50 | S13: Smells and Technical Debt (II)Paper Presentations / Research Papers / Doctoral Symposium at ECSA 2020 Teams Channel Chair(s): Xabier LarruceaTecnalia, Gabriel A. MorenoCarnegie Mellon University Virtualization support: Claudio Di Sipio | ||
16:10 20m | Does BERT understand code? - An exploratory study on the detection of architectural tactics in codeshort-paperResearch Track Research Papers Jan KeimKarlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Angelika KaplanKarlsruhe Institute of Technology, Anne KoziolekKarlsruhe Institute of Technology, Mehdi MirakhorliRochester Institute of Technology | ||
16:30 20m | A Semiautomatic Approach to Identify Architectural Technical Debt from Heterogeneous ArtifactsDoctoral Symposium Doctoral Symposium Boris Rainiero Perez GutierrezUniversity of Los Andes, Colombia |
16:50 - 17:30 | S13: Self-adaptation and Uncertainity (II)Paper Presentations / Research Papers at ECSA 2020 Teams Channel Chair(s): Xabier LarruceaTecnalia, Gabriel A. MorenoCarnegie Mellon University Virtualization support: Claudio Di Sipio | ||
16:50 20m | A Multi-Objective Performance Optimization Approach for Self-Adaptive Architecturesshort-paperResearch Track Research Papers Davide ArcelliUniversità degli Studi dell'Aquila | ||
17:10 20m | Towards Using Probabilistic Models to Design Software Systems with Inherent Uncertaintyshort-paperResearch Track Research Papers |
17:30 - 17:45 | ECSA 2020 Closing and Wrap UpSocial / Paper Presentations / Research Papers at ECSA 2020 Teams Channel | ||
Call for Papers
The program committee of the 14th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2020) seeks submissions of papers describing fundamental and applied research, new methods, approaches, and processes, as well as novel applications and experience reports on all topics related to software architecture. Novel contributions can include research outcomes in industrial applications, case studies, best practices and experience reports as well as empirical studies, systematic literature reviews and mapping studies in software architecture.
At ECSA 2020, we aim to focus on how software architecture can enable the success of the next generation of software-enabled systems, especially given the incredible pace artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) components are increasingly becoming part of software systems, as well as the increasing impact of hardware and data in the systems we develop. What are the current research successes that position software architecture at the core of the ability to build and sustain systems of the future? What automation, tools, and techniques do software architects and engineers need in order to ensure architectures developed are evolvable, verifiable, and meet their quality and functional requirements?
Other topics include, but are not limited to:
- Foundational principles of software architecture
- Linking requirements engineering and software architecture
- Quality attributes and software architectures, such as security, privacy, trust aspects of software architecture
- Architectural design, analysis and evaluation
- Architecture description languages and meta-models, model-driven software architecture
- Architecture verification and validation
- Management of architectural knowledge, decisions, and rationale
- Cross disciplinary efforts and software architecture
- Architectural patterns, styles and tactics, reference architectures
- Architecture viewpoints and views
- Architecture conformance
- Architecture-based evolution, refactoring and reengineering, reverse engineering
- Architectures for reconfigurable and self-adaptive systems
- Architectures for software-ecosystems, ultra-large scale, long-lived systems and systems-of-systems
- Software architecture in different domains such as the cloud/edge-cloud, big data, blockchain, cyber-physical systems, IoT, autonomy,
- Software architecture and virtualization
- Architecture-centric process models and frameworks
- Software architecture and agility, continuous integration, continuous development and DevOps tools
- Component-based models and deployment, middleware
- Software architecture and system architecture, including software-defined networking
- Software tools and environments for architecture-centric software engineering
- Cultural, economic, business, social and managerial aspects of software architecture
Submissions
ECSA 2020 seeks four types of papers for the research track:
- Research papers (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) which describe novel contributions to software architecture research (submissions should cover work that has a sound scientific/technological basis and it has been possibly validated).
- Education and training papers (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) that address experiences and best practices in teaching and training of software architecture.
- Short papers (max. 8 pages in LNCS style) that present promising preliminary results from work-in-progress or challenges in a topic of software architecture research or education and training software architectures (submissions should cover work that has a sound basis, but perhaps has not been validated in full).
The page limit is strict, and it will not be possible to purchase additional pages at any point in the process (including after the paper is accepted). Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or Microsoft Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are available in Overleaf. Submissions that do not conform to these guidelines will be desk rejected before the review process.
All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous peer review process. Papers will be selected based on originality, quality, soundness and relevance. All contributions must be original, not published, accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. Contravention of this concurrent submission policy will be deemed a serious breach of scientific ethics, and appropriate action will be taken in all such cases. Based on the originality, quality, and relevance of their submission, the authors of papers rejected to the Technical track may be either (i) accepted as short papers in the Research track or (ii) invited to the Poster track of the conference.
Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.
Contributions should be submitted before the submission deadline using the online submission site: EasyChair ECSA 2020 Research track.
Papers reporting industry experiences and industrial case studies should be submitted to the dedicated Industry Track of ECSA 2020.
Proceedings
All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings. The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one author of an accepted contribution is required to register, present the work, and participate during the discussions at the conference.
Important Dates
- Full research Research, Industry, and Education papers: May 18, 2020 (strict)
- Notification of papers: June 22, 2020
- Camera ready: July 6, 2020
Notes: All deadlines are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). The submission deadline is strict and no extensions will be granted.