At ECSA 2021, we aim to focus on how Software Architecture can enable the success of the next generation of software-enabled systems to address the challenges of society, such as health, climate, sustainability, mobility, diversity, and future of production. 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 adaptable, evolvable, verifiable, and meet their quality and functional requirements? The program committee of 15th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2021) seeks submissions of original and unpublished high-quality papers describing fundamental and applied research, new methods, approaches, and processes, novel applications and experience reports on all topics related to software architecture including, but not limited to:
Foundational principles of software architecture
Linking requirements engineering and software architectures
Quality attributes and software architectures
Architectural design, analysis and evaluation
Architecture description languages and meta-models
Architecture verification and validation
Management of architectural knowledge, decisions, and rationale
Cross disciplinary efforts and software architecture
Architectures for reconfigurable and self-adaptive systems
Architectural concerns of autonomic systems
Architectural patterns, styles and tactics, reference architectures
Architecture viewpoints and views
Architecture conformance
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
Software architecture in different areas such as the cloud/edge-cloud, big data, blockchain, cyber-physical systems, IoT, autonomous systems, systems of systems, energy-aware software
Architecture & technical debt
Empirical studies, systematic literature reviews, and mapping studies in software architecture.
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