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                            CALL FOR PAPERS

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      5th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2011)

                  13-16 September 2011, Essen, Germany

                         http://www.ecsa2011.org
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The role of software architecture in the engineering of
software-intensive applications has become more and more important and
widespread. Component-based and service-oriented architectures are key
to the design, development and evolution of all software systems.

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.

We seek submissions of original papers describing basic and applied
research, novel applications, research challenges and experience reports
on all topics related to software architectures, including, but not
limited to:

  - requirements engineering and software architectures,
  - quality attributes and software architectures,
  - architecture reengineering, recovery,
  - architecture conformance, run-time monitoring,
  - aspect-oriented software architectures,
  - Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA),
  - web service composition, orchestration, choreography,
  - architecture-based solutions for evolving systems,
  - architectures for ultra-large and long-lived systems,
  - ontology-based approaches for component and architecture
    description,
  - process and management of architectural decisions,
  - process models and frameworks for architecture-centric software
    engineering,
  - architecture-centric model driven engineering,
  - architectural features of Model Driven Architecture,
  - software tools and environments for architecture-centric software
    engineering,
  - architectural concerns of autonomic systems,
  - component-based models, middleware, component-based deployment,
  - technology of components and component-based frameworks,
  - industrial applications, case studies, best practices and
    experience reports,
  - architecture description languages and metamodels,
  - architectural models, patterns and styles,
  - architecture analysis, validation and verification,
  - architecture transformation and refinement,
  - architecture-based synthesis, code generation,
  - architecture-based support for reconfigurable, adaptive or mobile
    applications.


PAPER SUBMISSIONS

As in previous years, ECSA 2011 seeks four types of papers that have not
been published, accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere:

  - *Full research papers* and *Experience papers* (max. 16 pages in
LNCS style) which describe novel contributions to software architecture
research (submissions should cover work that has a sound
scientific/technological basis and has been validated).

  - *Emerging research papers* (max. 8 pages in LNCS style) which
present promising preliminary results from work-in-progress in a topic
of software architecture research (submissions should cover work that
has a sound basis, but perhaps has not been validated in full).

  - *Research challenge papers* (max. 4 pages in LNCS style) which
present significant research challenges in theory or practice of
software architecture (submissions should clearly present the research
questions and their rationale).

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. The submission should be prepared using the Springer LNCS style.

Submit your paper electronically in PDF via the EasyChair submission
system at https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ecsa2011

For questions, please contact Program Chair Ivica Crnkovic
(ivica.crnkovic@mdh.se).

WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS

We also solicit proposals for workshops and tutorials focusing on
specific topics of interest in the field, ranging from theoretical
foundations to practical applications. Workshop and tutorial organizers
are encouraged to check www.ecsa2011.org for proposal guidelines, and
submit proposals to Wilhelm Hasselbring (wha@informatik.uni-kiel.de).


IMPORTANT DATES

Workshop/Tutorial proposals due: 15 March 2011

Paper abstracts due:              3 April 2011
Paper submissions due:           10 April 2011
Notification of acceptance:      25 May 2011
Camera-ready paper due:          25 June 2011


CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

General Chair: Volker Gruhn, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Program Chair: Ivica Crnkovic, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Workshops & Tutorials Chair: Wilhelm Hasselbring, Univ. of Kiel, Germany
Steering Committee Chair: Flavio Oquendo, Univ. South Brittany, France

Program Committee:

Jesper Andersson, Växjö University, Sweden
Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen
Muhammad Ali Babar, IT University of Copenhagen
Thais Batista, UFRN – Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
Steffen Becker, University of Paderborn
Tomas Bures, Charles University in Prague
Carlos Cuesta, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
Semih Çetin, Cybersoft
Eduardo Santana de de Almeida, Federal University of Bahia and RiSE
Rogerio De Lemos, University of Kent
Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, University of Toulouse
Laurence Duchien, University of Lille & INRIA
Ian Gorton, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Darko Huljenic, Ericsson Nikola Tesla
Rick Kazman, University of Hawaii
Gerald Kononya, Lancaster University
Kai Koskimies, Tampere University of Technology
Philippe Kruchten, University of British Columbia
Patricia Lago, VU University Amsterdam
Nicole Levy, Cédric laboratory, CNAM
Grace Lewis, Software Engineering Institute
Anna Liu, University of New South Wales
Roberto E. Lopez-Herrejon, Johannes Kepler University Linz
Sam Malek, Computer Science, George Mason University
Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano
Henry Muccini, University of L´Aquila
Robert L. Nord, Software Engineering Institute
Flavio Oquendo, European University of Brittany – UBS/VALORIA, France
Mourad Oussalah, University of Nantes – LINA, France
Eila Ovaska, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland
George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus
Hongyu Pei-Breivold, ABB Corporate Research
Jennifer Perez Benedi, Technical University of Madrid
Paulo de Figueiredo Pires, University of Rio Grande do Norte – UFRN
T.V. Prabhakar, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Claudia Raibulet, University of Milano-Bicocca
Alexandar Romanovsky, Newcastle University
Cecilia Rubira, University of Campinas
Juha Savolainen, Nokia Research Center
Clemens Schäfer, it factum GmbH
Bradley Schmerl, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Bedir Tekinerdoğan, Bilkent Üniversitesi
Christelle Urtado, Ecole des Mines d’Alès
Danny Weyns, DistriNet Labs, K.U.Leuven


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