The International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2019) is the premier gathering of practitioners and researchers interested in software architecture, in component-based software engineering and in quality aspects of complex software systems.

ICSA continues the tradition of a working conference, where researchers meet practitioners and where software architects can explain the problems they face in their day-to-day work 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.

The increasing size of software systems and the emergence of increasingly autonomous systems is asking for innovative software engineering practices. The way software is being developed and maintained is rapidly changing and must take into account multifaceted constraints like fast-changing and unpredictable markets, complex and changing customer requirements, pressures of shorter time-to-market, rapidly advancing information technologies, just to name a few of these new aspects. To cope with such constraints, software is increasingly produced according to rapid continuous software engineering development processes. The theme of ICSA 2019 is Architectures to interconnect Services and Systems” – leveraging advances like cross-functional and cross-national teams, scaling research to industry scale problems, bridging customer-developer divides, and working in Eoin Woods’s ‘intelligent connected’ world.

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 (AoE)

  • Abstracts (mandatory) due: 29 November 2018 04 December 2018
  • Full papers due: 06 December 2018 11 December 2018
  • Notification of acceptance: 17 January 2019
  • Camera-ready due: 07 February 2019 22 February 2019

We solicit the software architecture community the submission of

  • Technical research papers (10 pages) that should describe original and significant results of theoretical, empirical, conceptual, or experimental research in software architecture research or industrial practice. The novelty of the contribution needs to be clearly described and the results validated. Technical research papers are limited to 10 proceedings pages, and will be evaluate based on soundness, significance, verifiability, and presentation quality, in that order.

Topics

Topics of interest for the conference include (but are not limited to) the following themes:

  • Architecture & CI, CD, DevOps,
  • Microservices
  • Model driven engineering for continuous architecting
  • Up-front architecture and agile development
  • Architecting Systems of Systems, IoT systems, CPSs, software ecosystems, self-adaptive systems, or autonomous systems
  • Component based software engineering and architecture design
  • Architecture evaluation and quality aspects of software architectures
  • Automatic extraction and generation of software architecture descriptions
  • Re-factoring and evolving architecture design decisions and solutions
  • Architecture frameworks and architecture description languages
  • Linking architecture to requirements and/or implementation
  • Preserving architecture quality throughout the system lifetime
  • Reusable architectural solutions
  • Software architecture knowledge management
  • Software architecture for legacy systems and systems integration
  • Architecting families of products
  • Cultural, economic, business and managerial aspects of software architecture
  • Software architects roles and responsibilities
  • Training, education, and certification of software architects
  • State-of-the-art and state-of-practice in software architecture
  • Industrial experiments and case studies

Anonymization, Formatting and Submission Instructions

Please note that ICSA 2019 will pursue a double-blind review process for the main Technical track (only), therefore all submissions to this track have to fulfill the double-blind reviewing requirements. Papers submitted to the ICSA2019 technical track that disregard these review requirements will not be reviewed but desk-rejected.

All submissions must conform to the Author Instructions.

All papers are to be submitted electronically via the EasyChair submission system by the submission deadline, and must not have been published before.

Publication

All accepted contributions will be published in ICSA 2019 proceedings, and appear in IEEE Xplore Digital Library. At least one author of an accepted contribution is required to register and present the work at the conference.

Organization

For more information please contact the program chairs chairs though icsa2019@easychair.org:

  • Paris Avgeriou (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
  • Uwe Zdun (University of Vienna, Austria)

Program Commitee

  • Aldeida Aleti, Monash University, Australia
  • Muhammad Ali Babar, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Francesca Arcelli Fontana, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
  • Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  • Thais Batista, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil
  • Steffen Becker, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • Barbora Buhnova, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
  • Tomas Bures, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Rafael Capilla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
  • Selim Ciraci, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, U.S.A.
  • Vittorio Cortellessa, Universita' dell'Aquila, Italy
  • Ivica Crnkovic, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  • Laurence Duchien, INRIA, Lille, France
  • Alexander Egyed, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
  • Neil Ernst, University of Victoria, Canada
  • George Fairbanks, Google, U.S.A.
  • Matthias Galster, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
  • David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.
  • Maayan Goldstein, Nokia Bell Labs
  • Lars Grunske, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
  • Wilhelm Hasselbring, Kiel University, Germany
  • Robert Heinrich, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  • Rich Hilliard, IEEE Computer Society, U.S.A.
  • Anton Jansen, Philips Innovation Services, The Netherlands
  • Rick Kazman, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, and University of Hawaii, U.S.A.
  • Heiko Koziolek, ABB Corporate Research, Germany
  • Anne Koziolek, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  • Ivo Krka, Google, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Philippe Kruchten, The University of British Columbia, Canada
  • Patricia Lago, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Grace Lewis, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, U.S.A.
  • Peng Liang, Wuhan University, China
  • Ivano Malavolta, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Tomi Männistö, University of Helsinki, Finland
  • Chris Mattmann, NASA, U.S.A.
  • Mehdi Mirakhorli, Rochester Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
  • Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  • Henry Muccini, University of L'Aquila, Italy
  • Elena Navarro, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
  • Robert Nord, Software Engineering Institute, U.S.A.
  • Flavio Oquendo, IRISA (UMR CNRS) - Univ. Bretagne-Sud (UBS), France
  • Ipek Ozkaya, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, U.S.A.
  • Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland
  • Patrizio Pelliccione, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  • Jennifer Perez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
  • Eltjo Poort, CGI, U.S.A.
  • Maryam Razavian, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • Ralf Reussner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  • Matthias Riebisch, University of Hamburg, Germany
  • Roshanak Roshandel, Seattle University, U.S.A.
  • Andreas Roth, SAP Research, Germany
  • Riccardo Scandariato, Chalmers and University of Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Bradley Schmerl, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.
  • Jean-Guy Schneider, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
  • Klaus-Benedikt Schultis, Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany
  • Karen J Smiley, ABB Corporate Research
  • Romina Spalazzese, Malmö University, Sweden
  • Girish Suryanarayana, Siemens Corporate Technology, Bangalore, India
  • Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft, U.S.A.
  • Damian Andrew Tamburri, Technical University of Eindhoven - Jeronimus Academy of Data Science, The Netherlands
  • Antony Tang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
  • Bedir Tekinerdogan, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
  • Massimo Tivoli, University of L'Aquila, Italy
  • Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy
  • Perla Velasco Elizondo, Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico
  • Rainer Weinreich, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
  • Danny Weyns, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
  • Eoin Woods, Endava, UK
  • Xiwei Xu, CSIRO
  • Uwe Zdun, University of Vienna, Austria
  • Liming Zhu, The University of New South Wales, Australia
  • Olaf Zimmermann, University of Applied Sciences HSR FHO Rapperswill, Switzerland