[ecoop-info] Last CFP: Extended deadline 18th June for ECSA Tracks & Workshops

[Elena Maria Navarro Martinez]

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Extended deadline: June 18, 2018
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Last CFP: 12th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2018)
24-28 September 2018, Madrid, Spain
Web: http://eventos.upm.es/go/ecsa2018
Tweeter: @ECSACONF2018
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Registration to 1st Innovator Bootcamp (IB) Workshop will be free.


CFP: ECSA Tracks
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***Industry Track***
The Industry Track at ECSA 2018 will bring together researchers and practicing architects from local, European, and worldwide communities. We are seeking contributions from industry that share best practices, failures, and professional experiences designing, implementing, and evaluating software architectures. In particular, we are interested in experiences featuring emerging technologies, such as Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Blockchain, Microservices, Software Defined Infrastructures, DevOps, and any disruptive technology that is affecting the way that software systems are architected.

***PhD Symposium***
The goal of the Doctoral Symposium is to encourage PhD students in the field of software architecture to actively participate in and contribute to the 12th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2018). Students will be able to present their research goals, methods and (preliminary) results. They will interact closely with established researchers in their fields, receive feedback on their work and get advice on managing their research. The symposium will also help participants to establish a new research and social network of their peers in the field of software architecture.

***Women in Software Architecture***
Diversity in ICT teams has become an important parameter on which the success of projects depends. Indeed it has been demonstrated the importance of team mixing people of different gender, culture, religion and allocation of human resources in different countries, domains, etc to go beyond a unique model.  Diversity plays a key role to have success and be competitive and innovative in software development.Both women and men are invited to collaborate and attend to this track. Students, industry professionals, academics, and other leaders in computing are also welcome to promote networking and technical discussion to motivate the participation and visibility of women in the Software Architecture field.

***Posters, Tools, and Demos***
The 12th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2018) Posters, Tools, and Demos Track provides an opportunity for both practitioners and researchers to present and discuss the most recent advances, ideas, experiences, and challenges in the field of software architecture by means of posters and live tool/demo presentations.
Posters are intended to stimulate discussions among conference participants: reflections on the past, descriptions of current initiatives, visions of the future, and new results in software architecture research and practice are very welcome. During the conference, posters will be presented in the poster session (in A1 poster format, 594mm x 841mm).
Tools and demos are intended to address any aspect of tool support for software architects.

***Publication***
Accepted papers will appear in in the ECSA 2018 Companion Proceedings published by ACM Digital Library.

***Important dates***
Submission June 18, 2018
Notification of papers July 3, 2018
Camera ready July 12, 2018


CFP: ECSA Workshops
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In the following 10 different workshops about Software Architecture are open for submission.

***Publication***
Accepted papers will appear in in the ECSA 2018 Companion Proceedings published by ACM Digital Library.

***Important dates***
Submission                       June 18, 2018
Notification of papers    July 3, 2018
Camera ready                  July 12, 2018

***1st Architecture-Based Continuity in DevOps (ABCD)***
The ABCD workshop aims specifically at building an Architecture-Based Continuity in DevOps taskforce in this first edition. This workshop is aiming at building a tightly knit and cohesive working group around the workshop topics which will focus on the driving quality attributes of DevOps: security, availability, modifiability, performance, and testability.
Top accepted workshop papers will be fast-tracked to submit an extended version at the upcoming "DevOps Quality" Special Issue for the Journal of Software Evolution and Process (JSEP).
Submission June 11, 2018
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/abcdworkshopseries/home


***1st International Workshop on Architectural Knowledge for Self-adaptive Systems (AKSAS)***
AKSAS aims at turning Experience into Knowledge by collecting and organising experiences and practices from practitioners in both industry and academia. Specifically, the goal is creating a forum to (i) propose, discuss, evaluate, share, and classify design/architectural artefacts and (ii) distil a shared Architectural Knowledge packaged as a toolkit for designers/architects facing self-adaptive systems.
Submission June 11, 2018
Website: https://seeds-lnu.github.io/aksas2018/


***12th Workshop on Distributed Software Development, Software Ecosystems and Systems-of-Systems (WDES)***
WDES 2018 will provide researchers and practitioners with a forum to exchange ideas and experiences, analyze R&D issues, discuss promising solutions, and propose theoretical foundations for architecting complex systems, inspiring visions for the future of software engineering for SoS, SECO, and DSD.
Submission June 11, 2018
Website: http://wdes2018.icmc.usp.br


***1st Software Architecture Challenges in Big Data (SACBD)***
Software architecture is a critical cornerstone of the current complex software systems. This workshop aims at discuss on advanced solution for systems involving one or several of the following technological paradigms: big data, or big data integration with cloud computing / IOT / HPC / artificial intelligence. Industrial case studies including demonstrations and applied research experiences reports for novel contributions as well as visionary papers are welcome. Overall design and performance issues and challenges are expected to be addressed. Moreover, solutions to enforce both security, transparency and ethics by design are also expected.
Submission June 11, 2018
Website: http://bdva.eu/?q=node/1017


***2nd Formal Approaches for Advanced Computing Systems (FAACS)***
The main goal of the workshop is to foster integration between the formal methods and the software architecture communities with the purpose to promote the connection between the two more carefully than is currently. After the first edition as a satellite workshop of Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM) 2017, this year FAACS will be co-located with ECSA 2018.
Submission June 11, 2018
Website: http://fmse.di.unimi.it/faacs2018


***2nd Context-aware, Autonomous and Smart Architectures International Workshop (CASA)***
The workshop aims to bring together software engineers and computer scientists, researchers, practitioners and educators to discuss and exchanges results, case studies, experiences, novel approaches and visionary ideas concerning software architectures for context-aware, autonomous, and smart solutions.
Submission June 4, 2018
Website: https://casaecsa.github.io/casa2018


***4th Sustainable Architecture: Global Collaboration, Requirements, Analysis (SAGRA)***
It is crucial for software systems to be cost-efficiently maintained and evolved over their entire life-cycle, i.e. to be sustainable, whereas the sustainability of the system is largely determined by the sustainability of its architecture. Low quality architectures slow the progress of software evolution and reduce profits. Designing a sustainable software architecture is a non-trivial task, especially in the case of large scale and/or long-living systems. The task becomes even more complicated when we take into account collaborative and intercultural aspects of the software development, requirements traceability and big data management. Practitioners require architecture metrics that support sustainable software architectures reflecting quality attributes such as maintainability, extensibility, reliability, integrity, etc.
Submission June 1, 2018
Website: https://sagra2018.wordpress.com


***1st Innovator Bootcamp (IB)***
In the context of H2020 program and Startup-Europe initiative, the objective of this 1-day workshop is to accelerate and foster the grow of new ventures by equipping researchers better to work with effective models for the successful commercialization/bringing to market of their R+D activities to increase productivity; to improve the private investment in further researchers; create more global innovations, and stimulate a greater interest from researchers to view the results of their work as potential opportunities to be exploited with the correct business model; and to briefly describe the European entrepreneurship ecosystem and the financial opportunities it offers
Submission June 11, 2018
http://merlin-ict.eu/conference-workshops/ecsa-2018/


***5th International Workshop on Measurability of Security in Software Architectures (MeSSA)***
Security measurement of software architectures is needed to produce sufficient evidence of security level as early as in the design phase. Design-time security measuring should support "security by design" approach. Moreover, software architectures have to support runtime security measurement to obtain up-to-date security information from an online software system, service or product. Security metrics and measurements are exploited in situational awareness monitoring and self-adaptive security solutions. The area of security metrics and security assurance metrics research is evolving, but still lacks widely accepted metrics definitions and applicable measuring techniques. Strong collaboration between security experts, software architects, and system developers is needed.
The workshop will provide a forum for dissemination, demonstration and discussion of original scientific and experimental results of security measurement topics.
Submission June 11, 2018
Website: http://www.vttresearch.com/media/events/messa-2018

***5th Workshop on Software Architecture Erosion and Architectural Consistency (SAEroCon)***
The workshop will again host "hands-on" architecting sessions in which architects of open source system will interact with researchers and tools to derive/recover architectural views of their systems. Attendees wishing to partake in these sessions will be asked to submit an agenda to the workshop organizers in advance.
Organizers:
Jim Buckley, Lero/University of Limerick, Ireland
Sebastian Herold, Karlstad University, Sweden
Jan Martijn van der Werf, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Submission June 4, 2018
Website: https://saerocon.wordpress.com