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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=IT link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#4472C4'>/* we apologize for possible multiple cross postings */<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>IEEE International Conference on<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Software Architecture (ICSA 2021)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Virtual Event<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>March 22-26, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:center'><a href="https://icsa-conferences.org/2021"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>https://icsa-conferences.org/2021</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>The IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2021) is the premier gathering of practitioners and researchers interested in software architecture, component-based software engineering, and 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>The COVID-19 situation is challenging systems and their software architectures in different ways: the way we are collaboratively creating software architectures without the typical in-person activities such as workshops, brainstorming sessions, reviews; the challenges facing our systems in terms of new usage patterns and business opportunities; and the impact they are having on our social and economic well-being. The theme of ICSA 2021 is “Software Architecture in the COVID-19 Reality.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>We call on both researchers and practitioners for contributions that advance our understanding of architectures in real-world software, facilitate empirical research by making architectural artifacts and tools publicly available, and promote replicability of results through common datasets and benchmarks. We welcome original papers that explore and explain the role of architecture in current systems and future systems. This conference looks at what can be learned from our software architecture history, experience, studies, and best practices.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Topics<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Topics of interest for the conference include (but are not limited to) the following themes:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Architecture & CI/CD, DevOps, Containerization, Serverless platforms<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Microservices and event-driven architectures<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Model driven engineering for continuous architecting<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Agile architecting and other approaches to architecting<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Architecting specific types of systems, such as Systems of Systems, IoT systems, AI/ML systems, CPSs, software ecosystems, self-adaptive systems, or autonomous systems<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Component based software engineering<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Architecture evaluation and quality aspects of software architectures<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Automatic extraction and generation of software architecture descriptions<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Refactoring and evolving architecture design decisions and solutions<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Architecture frameworks and architecture description languages<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Linking architecture to requirements and/or implementation<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Architecture conformance<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Reusable architectural solutions<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Software architecture knowledge management<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Software architecture for legacy systems and systems integration<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Architecting families of products<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle 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class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Stakeholder management and collaborating with other business and technical domains<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>State-of-the-art and state-of-practice in software architecture<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Industrial experiments and case studies<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Tracks & Important Dates <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><i><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Technical Track</span></u></i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'> (</span><a href="http://icsa-conferences.org/2021/call-for-papers/technical-papers"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>http://icsa-conferences.org/2021/call-for-papers/technical-papers</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>): The Technical Track enables researchers and practitioners to present original contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in software architectures.<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Abstract: Dec 9th, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Paper: Dec 16th, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Notification: Jan 22nd, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Camera-ready: Feb 19th, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><i><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Journal-First Track</span></u></i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'> (</span><a href="https://icsa-conferences.org/2021/call-for-papers/journal-first-track"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>https://icsa-conferences.org/2021/call-for-papers/journal-first-track</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>): The Journal-First Track enables authors of journal-first papers accepted by Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), IEEE Software, and Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) to present their work at ICSA 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Proposal: Dec 16th, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Notification: Jan 22nd, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Camera-ready: Feb 19th, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><i><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Software Architecture in Practice Track</span></u></i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'> (</span><a href="http://icsa-conferences.org/2021/call-for-papers/engineering-track-papers"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>http://icsa-conferences.org/2021/call-for-papers/engineering-track-papers</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>): The Software Architecture in Practice Track provides a platform to present and discuss recent innovations and findings in the field of software architecture by means of experience reports and talks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Abstract: Dec 9th, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Paper: Dec 16th, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Notification: Jan 22nd, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Camera-ready: Feb 19th, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><i><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>New and Emerging Ideas Track</span></u></i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'> (</span><a href="http://icsa-conferences.org/2021/call-for-papers/new-and-emerging-ideas"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>http://icsa-conferences.org/2021/call-for-papers/new-and-emerging-ideas</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>): The New and Emerging Ideas (NEMI) track at ICSA 2021 provides the means to share new visions and ideas that can potentially challenge the status quo of the research and practice in software architecture. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Abstract: Dec 9th, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Paper: Dec 16th, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Notification: Jan 22nd, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Camera-ready: Feb 19th, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><i><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Early Career Researchers Forum</span></u></i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'> (</span><a href="http://icsa-conferences.org/2021/call-for-papers/early-career-forum"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>http://icsa-conferences.org/2021/call-for-papers/early-career-forum</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>): The Early Career Researchers Forum enables early career researchers in the field of software architecture to gather and discuss ongoing research in any stage, from ideas to results.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Abstract: Jan 4th, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Paper: Jan 11th, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Notification: Feb 8th, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Camera-ready: Feb 19th, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><i><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Workshops</span></u></i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'> (</span><a href="https://icsa-conferences.org/2021/call-for-papers/workshops"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>https://icsa-conferences.org/2021/call-for-papers/workshops</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>): Please refer to the Workshops page for additional information.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Paper submission: January 20th, 2021 (firm)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Paper notification: February 8th, 2021 (firm)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Camera-Ready due: February 15th, 2020 (firm)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Submission<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>All submissions must conform to the IEEE paper formatting and submission instructions, as indicated in the CFP for each track, along with the explicit evaluation criteria for each type of paper. Please note that ICSA 2021 will pursue a double-blind review process for technical research papers only. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>All papers are to be submitted electronically via the EasyChair submission system:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:center'><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsa2021"><span lang=EN-GB>https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsa2021</span></a><span class=MsoHyperlink><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Submissions must be uploaded by the submission deadline and they must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere nor published before.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Publication<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>All accepted technical research papers will be published in ICSA 2021 proceedings, and appear in IEEE Xplore Digital Library. At least one author of an accepted contribution is required to register and present the work at the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Organization<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>General Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Steffen Becker, University of Stuttgart, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Program and Journal First Track Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Grace A. Lewis, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Anton Jansen, Philipps Innovation Services, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Software Architecture in Practice Track Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Heiko Koziolek, ABB Corporate Research, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Carola Lillienthal, WPS Workplace Solutions, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>New and Emerging Ideas Track Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Romina Spalazzese, Malmö University, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Javier Camara, University of York, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Early Career Track Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), L’Aquila, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Philippe Kruchten, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Workshop Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Christoph Fehling, Mercedes-Benz AG, Stuttgart, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Oliver Kopp, Mercedes-Benz AG, Stuttgart, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Publication Chair<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Stéphanie Challita, University of Rennes, Rennes, France<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Publicity Chair<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>