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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">*** First Call for Research Papers ***<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">2nd International Workshop on Software Architecture and Generative AI (SAGAI)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.iese.fraunhofer.de/en/events/sagai.html">https://www.iese.fraunhofer.de/en/events/sagai.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The SAGAI 2026 Workshop is co-located with the
</span><a href="https://conf.researchr.org/home/icsa-2026" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA'26)</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> in Amsterdam (Netherlands), and will take place in a date to be
defined between June 22 and 23, 2026.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Generative AI has become a pervasive topic in recent years, attracting the attention of researchers and practitioners. As the software engineering community begins to explore it, there is a pressing need for developments
and contributions from the software architecture community. SAGAI 2026, the 2nd International Workshop on Software Architecture and Generative AI, aims at the consolidation of a community dedicated to exploring the opportunities and limitations of generative
AI in software architecture.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">SAGAI's second edition aims to contribute to the establishment of a community of researchers focused on exploring novel ways of using generative AI to improve both development time and runtime aspects of software architectures.
To achieve this, we have the following specific objectives:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US">To provide a forum for scientists and practitioners within the software architecture community to reflect on the potential and limitations of generative AI in software architecture;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US">To disseminate early results in the field of generative AI for software architecture;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US">To explore how generative AI can support different audiences (e.g., software architects, developers, requirements engineers, and end users) across architecture activities (e.g., identification
of architecture-significant requirements, architectural design, evaluation, implementation, and governance).<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US">To stimulate the investigation of generative AI at runtime in software architectures to address quality attributes such as adaptability, fault tolerance, interoperability, operability,
and recoverability, among others.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>TOPICS OF INTEREST</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">GenAI@DT <o:p></o:p></li><ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="circle">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">Approaches to use generative AI in architecture design and evaluation;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">Generative AI to support architecture knowledge management;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">Generative AI to support the elaboration of architecture scenarios descriptions;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">Generative AI to support the elaboration architecture evaluation protocols;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">Integration and interaction of generative AI methods and tools with existing state of the practice tools;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">Improvement of context knowledge used by co-pilots and LLMs in multiple contexts;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">Approaches to use generative AI in modernization of legacy systems;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">Experiences and ideas on teaching generative AI techniques to software architects;<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">GenAI@RT <o:p></o:p></li><ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="circle">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">Architectures to use generative AI at runtime to implement functional requirements;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">Approaches to use generative AI at runtime to address quality requirements;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">Tactics to deal with the non-deterministic character of generative AI to allow for effective and efficient solutions at runtime.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span>TYPES OF CONTRIBUTION </b><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3"><b><span lang="EN-US">Full papers:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> complete research approaches and industry experiences (max. 10 pages).<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3"><b><span lang="EN-US">Short papers:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> ongoing research initiatives with early results, argued positions, and emerging novel ideas (max. 6 pages).<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Submissions proceed via </span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=icsa2026"><span lang="EN-US">EasyChair</span></a></b><b><span lang="EN-US">.</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">All submissions must adhere to the </span>
<a href="https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html"><span lang="EN-US">IEEE Template for conference proceedings</span></a></b><b><span lang="EN-US">.</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">PROCEEDINGS</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">All accepted papers will appear in the ICSA 2026 Companion proceedings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4">Submission: <b>Feb 13, 2026</b><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4">Notification: <b>Mar 13, 2026</b><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4">Camera-ready: <b>Mar 27, 2026</b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4"><span lang="EN-US">Workshop date:
<b>Jun 22 or 23, 2026 (tbd)</b><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span lang="EN-US">Prof. Dr. Rafael Capilla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo5">Dr. Frank Elberzhager, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo5"><span lang="EN-US">Dr. Pablo Oliveira Antonino, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo5"><span lang="EN-US">Dr. Ivan Compagnucci, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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