<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">CALL FOR
PAPERS</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">9th
European Conference on Software Architecture - ECSA 2015</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">September
8-11, 2015, Dubrovnik/Cavtat, Croatia</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://ecsa-conference.org/2015/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(13,55,164)">http://ecsa-conference.org/<WBR>2015/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(13,55,164)"><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2015" target="_blank">https://www.easychair.org/<WBR>conferences/?conf=ecsa2015</a></span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Call for Workshops: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://ecsa-conference.org/2015/index.php?pageId=2" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">http://ecsa-conference.org/<WBR>2015/index.php?pageId=2</span></a></span><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:blue"></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Call for Tool Demo: <a href="http://ecsa-conference.org/2015/index.php?pageId=10" target="_blank">http://ecsa-conference.org/<WBR>2015/index.php?pageId=10</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">IMPORTANT DATES</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Abstract submission: April 11, 2015</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Paper submission: April 17, 2015</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Notification: June 5, 2015</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Camera-ready copy: June 29, 2015</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">SCOPE</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">The European Conference on Software
Architecture (ECSA) is the premier European software architecture conference,
providing researchers, practitioners, and educators with a platform to present
and discuss the most recent, innovative and significant findings and
experiences in the field of software architecture research and practice. The
conference will feature a research track, an industrial track, an education and
training track, keynotes, workshops, tutorials, tool and demonstrations, and
panels. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">TOPICS</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">The program committee of ECSA 2015 seeks
submissions of papers describing basic and applied research, novel applications
and experience reports on all topics related to software architectures
including, but not limited to:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Foundational principles of software
architecture</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Linking requirements engineering and
software architectures</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Quality attributes and software
architectures</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Architectural design, analysis and
evaluation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Architecture description languages and
meta-models</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Architecture verification and validation </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Management of architectural knowledge,
decisions, and rationale</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Cross disciplinary efforts and software
architecture </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Architectural patterns, styles and
tactics, reference architectures</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Architecture viewpoints and views</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Architecture conformance</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Architecture-based synthesis, code
generation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Architecture transformation and
refinement</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Architecture refactoring and
reengineering, reverse engineering</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Architecture-based evolution</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Architectures for reconfigurable and
self-adaptive systems</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and
Web services,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Architectures for ultra-large scale,
long-lived systems and systems-of-systems</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Software architecture and the cloud</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Software architecture and big data</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Software architecture and virtualization</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Architectures for cyber-physical systems</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Architectural concerns of autonomic
systems</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Architecture-centric process models and
frameworks</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Software architecture and agility</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Architecture-centric model driven
engineering</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Component-based models and deployment,
middleware</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Software architecture and system
architecture, including software-defined networking</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Software tools and environments for
architecture-centric software engineering</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Industrial applications, case studies, best
practices and experience reports</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Empirical studies, systematic literature
reviews and mapping studies in software architecture.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">SUBMISSIONS</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">ECSA 2015 seeks three types of submissions
to foster the active participation of researchers and practitioners:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Full research papers and Experience
papers (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) that describe novel contributions to
software architecture research (submissions should cover work that has a sound
scientific/technological basis and has been validated).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Short papers (max. 8 pages in LNCS style)
that present promising preliminary results from work-in-progress or research
challenges in a topic of software architecture research (submissions should
cover work that has a sound basis, but perhaps has not been validated in full).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">- Education and Training papers (max. 12
pages in LNCS style) that address challenges and best practices in in teaching
and training of software architecture, such as methods, project management, and
academia-industry collaborations. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">All submitted papers will undergo a
rigorous peer review process, and be selected based on originality, quality,
soundness and relevance. All accepted papers will appear in the conference
proceedings published by Springer-Verlag as part of the Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series. In addition, authors of best papers will be
invited to submit extended versions of their papers for a special Issue on “New
Frontiers in Software Architecture” in the Journal on Systems and Software. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">The submissions should be prepared using
the Springer LNCS style and submitted via EasyChair here: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2015" target="_blank">https://www.easychair.org/<WBR>conferences/?conf=ecsa2015</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Program Co-Chairs: Raffaela Mirandola,
Politecnico di Milano and Danny Weyns, Linnaeus University </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">General Chair: Ivica Crnkovic, Mälardalen University</span></p></div>
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