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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>*** First Call for Journal First Papers ***</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2025)</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>September 15-19, 2025,
</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b><a href="https://conf.researchr.org/home/ecsa-2025">https://conf.researchr.org/home/ecsa-2025</a></b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) is the premier European software</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">architecture conference, providing researchers, practitioners, and educators with a platform to</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">present and discuss the most recent, innovative, and significant findings and experiences in the</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">field of software architecture research and practice. The 19th European Conference on Software</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Architecture (ECSA 2025) will be held from September 15 to 19, 2025. ECSA 2025 is planned as</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">an in-person conference taking place in the beautiful city of Limassol (Cyprus).</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>SCOPE</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">A journal-first paper submitted to ECSA 2025 must adhere to the following criteria:</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The paper must have been accepted after peer review by one between JSS, IEEE Software,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">IST or TSE.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The paper is in the scope of the conference.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The paper has not been presented at and is not under consideration for journal-first</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">programs of other conferences.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>PAPER SUBMISSION
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">We invite authors of papers that meet the above criteria to submit a proposal that includes a</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">summary of the original paper that highlights the contributions, motivates the relevance for</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">the ECSA, and briefly discusses how the work has developed after the original publication -</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">if it is the case. Please include the DOI of the original journal paper. ECSA offers an opportunity</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">to disseminate your work to a broader community audience.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The submission must be 3-4 pages long and conform to the Springer LNCS style</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">(</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines">https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines</a></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">).</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Accepted submissions will be invited to present at the conference. The track chairs will write a</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">summary of the accepted submissions that will be included in the conference proceedings.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Proposals must be submitted via the online EasyChair submission site for the ECSA 2025</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">conference, selecting the "Journal First" Track:</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><a href="https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ecsa2025">https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ecsa2025</a></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>EVALUATION</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Authors will be invited to present their paper at ECSA 2025 if it meets the above criteria. Please</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">note that we plan to include as many journal-first papers as possible in the ECSA main program.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">However, if we receive an exceptionally high number of submissions, we may have to prioritize</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">presentation proposals according to their fit to the conference theme and sessions structure.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">As the papers have already been reviewed and accepted by a journal, we will not review the</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">submission for technical content; instead, we will focus on the track’s criteria.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>PRESENTATION</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">ECSA 2025 is planned to be an in-person/physical conference. The journal-first paper
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">presentations are part of the ECSA conference’s main program. As a journal-first presenter,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">you will benefit from the conference presentation in many ways, such as, outreach to a broader</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">audience and interactions and discussions with peers. At least one author of each submission</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">accepted for the journal-first program must register and attend the conference to present the</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">paper.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>IMPORTANT DATES</b></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Paper submission: May 23, 2025</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Acceptance notification: June 20, 2025</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth).</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>ORGANISATION</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>General Chairs</u></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Groeningen, The Netherlands</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Journal First Track Chairs</u></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Jesper Andersson, Linnaeus University, Sweden</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Romina Spalazzese, Malmö University, Sweden</span></div>
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