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This is a friendly reminder for the upcoming deadlines in *four
weeks* of
ICSA 2019
International Conference on Software Architecture
March 25-29, 2019
Hamburg, Germany
http://icsa-conferences.org/2019/
Please accept our apologies if this email is received again.
ICSA cordially invites contributions related to all aspects of
software architecture, for its parts
* Technical track
* New and Emerging Ideas (NEMI) track
* Software Architecture in Practice (SAIP) track
* Tool Demonstrations track
* Early Career Researchers Forum (ECRF-ICSA 2019)
* Tutorials
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”.
We welcome original contributions that explore and explain the
role of architecture in current systems as well as in near future
systems. This conference looks at what can be learned from our
software architecture history, experience, studies, and best
practices.
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*Call for Papers*
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We solicit the software architecture community original
submissions of the following types:
*Technical Papers*
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Technical research papers (10 pages) 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*
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Topics of interest for the conference include (but are not limited
to) the following themes:
* Architecture & CI, CD and 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*
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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, see
https://swk-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~icsa2019/call-for-papers/author-instructions/index.html.
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, see
https://swk-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~icsa2019/call-for-papers/author-instructions/index.html.
All papers are to be submitted electronically via the EasyChair
submission system
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsa2019
by the submission deadline, and must not have been published
before.
For more information please contact the Program Committee chairs
through the email contact address
mailto:icsa2019@easychair.org
*Publication*
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All accepted technical track contributions will be published in
ICSA 2019 proceedings, and appear in IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
*New and Emerging Ideas*
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The goal of the New and Emerging Ideas (NEMI) track at ICSA 2019
is to encourage the software architecture community to propose new
software architecture research visions and ideas, which can
potentially challenge the status quo of the software architecture
discipline (research and practice) and point to new directions and
opportunities.
*Types of submissions*
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The ICSA 2019 NEMI track seeks the following types of
contributions:
*New Ideas*:
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* Visions or new directions supported by a strong and well
motivated scientific foundation or practical application;
* Arguments or results that challenge established results or
beliefs, giving evidence that calls for fundamentally new
directions, opening up new research avenues or software
architecture practices;
* Radically new approaches, techniques, or theories that can bring
new results to software architecture research or practice.
*Emerging Results*:
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* Not yet fully mature research results, that may lack full
validation but that still can stimulate discussions; papers should
trigger discussion and raise awareness and reflection on specific
topics, in research and/or industrial practice.
NEMI papers must clearly motivate and illustrate a rationale for
changing current practice and/or research in software
architecture. Evaluation results are not required for NEMI papers
(but if such results exist, then they may be presented, if only to
give the reviewers a feel about the evaluation plan). Strong
argumentation and reasoning is expected to inspire the readers.
*Scope*
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NEMI provides a forum for innovative, thought-provoking insights
in software architecture in order to accelerate the exposure of
the community to early and on-going yet promising and potentially
inspiring innovations in industry and academia.
NEMI papers are not second-class ICSA research track papers. NEMI
is a forum for first-class contributions that provide novel,
soundly motivated directions and emerging results in research and
practice.
In principle, the track addresses the same topics of interest as
those of the technical paper track. However, NEMI authors are
encouraged to combine these topics in new ways, to establish
connections to other fields outside of classical software
architecture, push the boundaries of software architecture to new
avenues, as well as to argue for the importance of software
architecture research and practice in areas not explicitly listed.
*Out of scope*
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A NEMI submission should not be just incremental results on
existing research, nor disguised advertisements for previously
published results, products, tools or methods, or experience
reports. ICSA 2019 has several tracks and workshops where such
works can be submitted.
*Evaluation*
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All submissions will be evaluated in terms of the following
criteria:
* Value: the problem is worth exploring, ideally real world
use-inspired.
* Impact: the potential for disruption of current practice and/or
research;
* Originality: new insights or ideas/visions;
* Rationale: soundness of the justification, reasoning and
argumentation;
* Evaluation: appropriate consideration of relevant literature
and/or research evaluation to demonstrate originality, arguments
and limitations;
* Quality: overall manuscript quality.
*Formatting and submission Instructions*
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All NEMI submissions must conform to the Author Instructions
https://swk-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~icsa2019/call-for-papers/author-instructions/index.html,
and must not exceed *four pages*, including all text, references,
appendices, and figures. No double-blind, but single-blind review
will apply to NEMI papers. All papers are to be submitted
electronically via the NEMI EasyChair submission system
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsa2019nemi, by the
submission deadline. Submissions must not have been published
elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review
elsewhere while under consideration for ICSA 2019 NEMI track..
Note that in addition to an oral plenary presentation at the
conference, authors of accepted papers may also bring a poster
describing their work to further showcase their work to a broader
ICSA audience.
For more information please contact the NEMI track chairs through
the email contact address
mailto:icsa2019nemi@easychair.org
*Publication*
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All accepted technical track contributions will be published in
ICSA 2019 Companion proceedings, and appear in IEEE Xplore Digital
Library.
*Software Architecture in Practice*
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The ICSA Software Architecture in Practice (SAIP) Track provides
practitioners and researchers a platform to present and discuss
the most recent innovations and findings in the field of software
architecture by means of experience reports and talks. Topics of
interest are the same as for the ICSA 2019 Technical Track.
*Types of Submissions and Publication*
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We solicit the following types of submissions:
*SW Architecture in Practice papers* (4-8 pages) address
industry-relevant software architecture problems through
systematic investigations. Full papers may describe
industry-relevant experience and best practices. Successful
applications of research ideas in industrial settings are welcomed
as well as negative results that rigorously describe why a
research approach cannot be applied. Empirical analyses of
industry-relevant software architecture issues may help both
practitioners and researchers.
The evaluation criteria are potential impact, repeatability, and
real-world focus. An extensive discussion of the context in which
the result was obtained is useful to transfer an approach to other
contexts. Full papers will appear in the ICSA Companion
proceedings.
*Technical talk proposals* (2 pages) must feature current trends
in the industry on the practice of software architecture
presenting ideas that are both inspirational and informative.
Proposals should make clear why the talk is interesting to ICSA
SAIP attendees. Each accepted talk will be of 30 minutes duration.
Extended abstracts of the accepted talks will appear in the ICSA
Companion proceedings.
*Formatting and Submission Instructions*
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All submissions must conform to the Author Instructions
https://swk-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~icsa2019/call-for-papers/author-instructions/index.html.
No double-blind, but single-blind review will apply to SAIP
papers. All papers are to be submitted electronically via the
EasyChair submission system
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsa2019saip, and must not
have been published before.
For more information please contact the SAIP track chairs through
the email contact address
mailto:icsa2019saip@easychair.org
*Tool Demonstrations*
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The ICSA 2019 Tool Demonstrations track provides researchers,
practitioners, and educators with a platform to present and
discuss the most recent innovations and findings in the field of
software architecture by means of live tool presentations. We
distinguish two categories of tool demo submissions addressing any
aspect of tool support to help software architects, researchers,
and practitioners:
*Tools used in practice*, either from commercial vendors or
open-source projects. These demonstrations should focus on
practical applications within the different activities of software
architecting and should particularly show how they advance the
current state of the practice. New ideas and features are
particularly welcome.
*Research tools* from academic or industrial research
environments. These demonstrations are intended to highlight
underlying scientific contributions and show how scientific
approaches have been transferred into a working tool.
Both categories may range from early prototypes to in-house or
pre-commercialized products. Authors of regular ICSA papers are
also welcome to submit an accompanying tool paper by adding
information regarding the actual demo as an appendix, as described
further under submission requirements.
We especially appreciate tool demos in line with the theme of ICSA
2019, which 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 an
‘intelligent connected’ world. Of course tool demos on other
topics of Software Architecture are welcome too.
*Submission Requirements*
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Submissions of papers for tool demonstrations must:
* Have a maximum length of 4 pages, describing the technology or
approach, how it relates to other industrial or research efforts,
including references, and what the expected benefits are.
* Have an appendix of maximum 2 pages (not included in the page
count) that provides a brief description of how the presentation
will be conducted, information on tool availability, maturity and
the web-page for the tool (if one exists).
* Clearly state the tool category: in-practice or research.
* Must conform to the Author Instructions
https://swk-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~icsa2019/call-for-papers/author-instructions/index.html.
No double-blind, but single-blind review will apply to tool demo
track submissions.
* Are to be submitted electronically via the EasyChair submission
system
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsa2019tool, and
must not have been published before.
Optionally, the submission can be accompanied with a video
(maximum length of 5 minutes) in high resolution. In this case, a
link to a page where the video can be viewed needs to be included
in the appendix. Note that the video is not mandatory, but if it
is available, it will be used to the benefit of the evaluation of
the submission.
Tool demos papers and accompanying artifacts will go through a
peer review process and accepted papers will be included in the
IEEE companion proceedings.
For more information please contact the track organizers through
the contact address
icsa2019tool@easychair.org
*Early Career Researchers Submissions*
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The goal of the Early Career Researchers Forum (ECRF-ICSA 2019) is
to inspire and bring together early career researchers in the
field of software architecture. This forum provides a vibrant
place for discussing potential and ongoing research at any stage,
from ideas to results. This forum strives to provide a friendly
environment for early career researchers to present their research
proposals and early results, and get feedbacks and inspirations
from experienced researchers. This forum stimulates interactions
between early career researchers and experienced academic and
industry members of the community by offering a two-stage
submission process that will enable early career researchers to
obtain feedbacks on their submissions.
*Participation*
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Participation is open to research candidates (PhD or Masters),
industrial researchers or recent PhD graduates who want to share
and improve their research in the field of software architecture.
*Submission and Process*
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The submission shall be a written report of between 6-8 pages. The
format of the submission shall be in IEEE format (see Author
Instructions). Each submission shall include the following:
*Part 1: Research Submission*
Each submission should include the following information
· The title of your submission
· Your information (name, affiliation, and e-mail address)
· An abstract of your research
· Motivations and goals justifying the importance of your research
problem
· Research questions and hypotheses that describes what you want
to achieve, solve or demonstrate
· A discussion of the existing and related works that your
research is built upon, especially explaining why these works do
not solve the problem(s) that you have identified
· Description of the research methods and the collection of your
evidence
· Description of your potential contributions or contributions
· Description of your research agenda
Note that the scope of this submission is not limited to one area
of research, it could be a research agenda that connects several
related research questions. Please submit this part through the
Easychair submission system
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecrficsa2019.
*Part 2: Recommendation Letter*
Ask your main research advisor (in case of research candidates) or
supervisor (in case of PhD graduates or industry researcher) for a
letter of recommendation. This letter should include:
· Your name and position
· Current status of your research
· An endorsement of the publication of your submission
The letter should be in PDF format and should be sent directly by
your advisor via e-mail to the ECRF-ICSA2019 Chairs through this
email address
mailto:ecrficsa2019@easychair.org. This
recommendation letter will be held confidential. The e-mail
subject should have the subject "ICSA2019-ECRF Recommendation"
plus your Last Name.
*Evaluation*
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In the first round, one member of the programme committee will
provide feedbacks and comments to each initial submission. Based
on the initial feedbacks, some early career researchers will be
invited to improve their works for resubmissions. Submissions in
the second round will be evaluated by two committee members. A
selection will take place based on the quality and potential of
the research and its relevance to Software Architecture. Selected
submissions will be accepted for publications and talks in the
ECRF forum.
*Publication*
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Submissions that are selected by the program committee members
will be invited to publish in the ICSA 2019 Companion Proceedings.
*Presentation and Discussion*
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All early career researchers who have their submissions accepted
must present in the ECRF-ICSA 2019. The chairs of ECRF reserve the
rights not to publish the paper of an absentee. A researcher shall
have 15 minutes to present their research and research agenda.
Experienced researchers shall provide feedbacks and facilitate
discussions.
*Tutorials*
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Tutorials at the International Conference on Software Architecture
(ICSA 2019) provide a valuable opportunity for conference
participants to expand their knowledge and skills in specific
research topics under the umbrella of software architecture.
Tutorials will be held before the main ICSA 2019 conference in
half-day or full-day sessions (25th and 26th of April, 2019).
Type of submission
A tutorial proposal consists of 2-4 pages containing sections that
describe the relevance of the topic, including the state of the
art, the implementation of the planned tutorial session, as well
as the background of the presenter(s). In particular, the proposal
should contain:
* Tutorial title (one line).
* A summary of 350 words (maximum) suitable for posting on the
conference web site.
* Topic description and relevance for the ICSA community: this
section should include (i) a description of the topic, (ii) the
state of art in the topic, (iii) the intended audience – profile
of the ideal targets – for the tutorial, and (iv) the relevance
for ICSA. The topic should be described in detail, stressing its
importance and timeliness, including the 2 or 3 key take-away
messages the audience should leave with.
* Implementation section: this section should include (i) the
duration of the proposed tutorial – half or full day, if both
durations are suitable submit two proposals with different
outlines – (ii) a preliminary schedule of events including
estimated times, (iii) a detailed description of what the tutorial
will cover, (iv) a justification of the tutorial for the expected
audience, and (v) an explanation of how the tutorial will be
conducted – lecture, hands on exercise, facilitated discussion,
group activity, role playing, game, etc. – including a description
of materials to be included in the tutorial notes.
* The Presenter(s)’ Background section: this section should
include affiliation, relevant biographical information (250 words
maximum), as well as summaries of the presenters’ technical,
presentation, and tutorial qualification and experience. This
section should include a description of where and when the
tutorial has been offered previously and the past number of
attendees.
*Submission Instructions and Evaluation Criteria*
Tutorial proposals must be submitted via email
mailto:icsa2019-tutorials@informatik.uni-hamburg.de. They will be
reviewed by the organizers. Acceptance will be based on:
* Evaluation of the tutorial’s interest to the community (research
and/or practice)
* Timeliness and expected interest in the topic
* Organizer’s ability to lead a successful tutorial
* Balance and synergy with other ICSA 2019 events
For more information please contact the ICSA2019 workshop chairs
through this email contact address
mailto:icsa2019-tutorials@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
*Important Dates*
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Please note that all submission dates have been moved to earlier
ones
*Technical Track*
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Abstract (mandatory) due 29 November 2018
Full Papers due 06 December 2018
Notification of acceptance 17 January 2019
Camera-ready due 07 February 2019
List of accepted papers publication 19 January 2019
Technical program publication 09 February 2019
*New and Emerging Ideas, Software Architecture in Practice, and
Tool Demonstrations Track*
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Abstract (mandatory) due 29 November 2018
Papers due 06 December 2018
Notification of acceptance 17 January 2019
Camera-ready due 07 February 2019
*Early Career Researchers Forum*
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Abstract (mandatory) due 03 December 2018
Submission due 10 December 2018
First round feedback 21 December 2018
Resubmission due 07 January 2019
Notification of acceptance 14 January 2019
Camera-ready due 04 February 2019
*Tutorials*
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Proposal Submission 25 January 2019
Proposal Notification 01 February 2019
Possible cancellation notice 08 February 2019
Camera-Ready Tutorial Summary 08 February 2019
Tutorial handouts 15 February 2019
Tutorial days 25 and 26 March 2019
*Registration*
Early registration deadline 28 February 2019
Author registration deadline 07 February 2019
Conference 25 - 29 March 2019
*Organizing Committee*
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General Chair: Matthias Riebisch, University of Hamburg, Germany
Local Chair: Sebastian Gerdes, University of Hamburg, Germany
Finance Chair and Conference Desk: Stephanie Schulte Hemming,
University of Hamburg, Germany
Program Co-Chairs: Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen, The
Netherlands, and
Uwe Zdun, University of Vienna, Austria
New and Emerging Ideas Track Co-Chairs: Matthias Galster,
University of Canterbury, New Zealand,
and Eltjo Poort, CGI, The Netherlands
SW Architecture in Practice Co-Chairs: Wilhelm Hasselbring,
University of Kiel, Germany,
and Heiko Koziolek, ABB Corporate Research, Germany
Early Career Researchers Forum Co-Chairs: Claus Lewerentz,
Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany, and
Anthony Tang, Swinburne University, Australia
Tool Demonstrations Co-Chairs: Tomáš Bureš, Charles University
Prague, Czech Republic, and
André van Hoorn, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Workshop Co-Chairs: Ipek Ozkaya, SEI, U.S.A, and
Eoin Woods, Endava, UK
Tutorials Co-Chairs: Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Universidade
Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Brazil, and
Michael Stal, Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany
Publicity Chair: Paula Rachow, University of Hamburg, Germany
Social Media Chair: Bastian Tenbergen, State University of New
York at Oswego, U.S.A.
Publications Chair: Stephanie Schulte Hemming, University of
Hamburg, Germany
Student Volunteers Chair: Sandra Schröder, University of Hamburg,
Germany
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Asst. Professor for Software Engineering
Department of Computer Science
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State University of New York at Oswego
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