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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> *** CALL FOR PAPERS ***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> ICSA 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> IEEE International Conference on <o:p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Software Architecture<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> March 16-20, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Salvador, BA - Brazil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><a href="http://icsa-conferences.org/2020/"><span lang="EN-US">http://icsa-conferences.org/2020/</span></a><span lang="EN-US">
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">*Call for Papers*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://icsa-conferences.org/2020/call-for-papers/index.html"><span lang="EN-US">http://icsa-conferences.org/2020/call-for-papers/index.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US">
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">ICSA cordially invites original contributions related to all aspects of software architecure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Submissions can be made in the following categories:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">* TECHNICAL TRACK (double-blind review process!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> ** Full Papers : max. 10 Pages IEEE Double-Column<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> ** Abstracts due : Dec 11, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> ** Papers due : Dec 18, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> ** Topics:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Architecture & CI/CD, DevOps, Containerization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Serverless platforms<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Microservices and event-driven architectures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Model driven engineering for continuous architecting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Up-front architecture and agile development<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Architecting Systems of Systems, IoT systems, CPSs, software ecosystems, self-adaptive systems, or autonomous systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Component-based software engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Architecture evaluation and quality aspects of software architectures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Automatic extraction and generation of software architecture descriptions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Refactoring and evolving architecture design decisions and solutions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Architecture frameworks and architecture description languages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Linking architecture to requirements and/or implementation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Architecture conformance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Reusable architectural solutions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Software architecture knowledge management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Software architecture for legacy systems and systems integration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Architecting families of products<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Cultural, economic, business and managerial aspects of software architecture<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Software architects roles and responsibilities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Training, education, and certification of software architects<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> State-of-the-art and state-of-practice in software architecture<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Industrial experiments and case studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">* SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE IN PRACTICE TRACK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> ** SAIP papers : 4-8 pages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> ** Technical Talks : 2 pages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> ** Abstracts due : Jan 8, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> ** Papers due : Jan 13, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> ** Topics:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Event-driven architectures and reactive systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Microservice architectures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Serverless architectures and Function as a Service (FaaS)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Design consideration for containerization and container orchestration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Design of Internet of Things solutions and mobile apps<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Architecture of solutions involving data-analytics and artificial intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Design considerations for DevOps and deployability practices<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> The architecture practice in fast-moving, agile environments, with independent self-organizing teams<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Addressing quality attribute requirements, such as performance, availability, usability, security, and interoperability<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Technical debt management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Software architecture design, evaluation, documentation, conformance, and reconstruction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">* TOOL DEMONSTRATION TRACK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> ** max. 4 pages ACM style<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> ** Abstracts due : Jan 8, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> ** Papers due : Jan 13, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> ** Types<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Tools used in practice, either from commercial vendors, industry or open source projects<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Research tools from academic or industrial research environments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Demonstrations of consolidated applications in software architecture<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">* NEW and EMERGING IDEAS TRACK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> ** Abstracts due : Jan 8, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> ** Papers due : Jan 13, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> The goal of the New and Emerging Ideas (NEMI) track at ICSA 2020 is to encourage the software architecture community to propose<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> new software architecture research visions and ideas, which can potentially challenge the status quo of the software architecture<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> discipline (research and practice) and point to new directions and opportunities.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">* EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS FORUM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> ** Ongoing Research papers : 4-6 pages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> *** Abstracts due : Jan 1, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> *** Papers due : Jan 8, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> *** two rounds of feedback to improve your work! ***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> ** Research Abstracts / Emerging Ideas : 2 pages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> *** Papers due : Jan 13, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">* TUTORIALs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> ** max. 2-4 Pages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> ** Proposals due : Jan 27, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">* WORKSHOP CONTRIBUTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> ** Workshops:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> *** 6th International Workshop on Automotive System/Software Architectures (WASA 2020)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> *** Joint 8th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Systems-of-Systems and 14th Workshop on Distributed Software Development, Software Ecosystems and Systems-of-Systems (SESoS/WDES 2020)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> *** 2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Healthcare (SEH<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">2020)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> *** Workshop on Blockchain-based Architectures (BlockArch 2020)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> *** Workshop on Technical Debt in Data Analytics Software Systems (TD4DASS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">2020) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">*** Stay Tuned for Workshop Calls for Papers ***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Mind the Formatting and Submission Instructions here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://icsa-conferences.org/2020/call-for-papers/author-instructions/index.h"><span lang="EN-US">http://icsa-conferences.org/2020/call-for-papers/author-instructions/index.h</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">*Organizing Committee*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">General Chair : Eduardo Almeida, Federal University of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Bahia, Brazil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Program Co-Chairs : Sam Malek, University of California, Irvine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> : Paulo Merson, Brazilian Federal Court of Accounts (TCU)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">New & Emerging Ideas : Nelly Bencomo, Aston University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> : Thais Batista, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Early Career Researchers Forum : Joshua Garcia, University of California, Irvine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> : Neil Ernst, University of Victoria, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Tutorial Chair : Henry Muccini, University of L'Aquila,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Workshop Co-Chairs : Ali Babar, University of Adelaide,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> : Elisa Nakagawa, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">SW Architecture in Practice : Matthias Naab, Fraunhofer Institute for<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Experimental Software Engineering, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Tool Demonstrations Chair : Danny Weyns, Katholieke Universiteit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Leuven, Belgium<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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