[fg-arc] Call for Papers: Theme Issue on the Software Architect's Role in the Digital Age

[Wilhelm (Willi) Hasselbring]

Theme Issue on the Software Architect's Role in the Digital Age

Call for Papers

Submission deadline: 1 April 2016
Publication: November/December 2016

http://www.computer.org/web/computingnow/swcfp6

After more than a decade of technical development and training programs,
have we managed to clarify an architect’s roles, responsibilities,
skills, competencies, and career paths? Even if we have, the architect’s
role will likely be a moving target in light of recent technology
innovations, such as big data, cloud computing, and mobile computing, as
well as advances in method engineering, such as agile practices,
continuous integration and deployment, and DevOps. In addition,
architects must deal with constantly changing social and organizational
interactions. These trends provide architects with more and richer
information channels but significantly extend the design space—that is,
the choices to be made and available options. Challenges such as
changing technologies, software becoming ubiquitous, and an industrial
revolution empowered by computing must be mastered by software
architects, whose roles and responsibilities are also changing at the
same time.

IEEE Software seeks submissions for a theme issue on the software
architect’s role in software development. The issue aims to be a guide
for architects and aspiring architects by featuring case studies, good
and bad experiences, and examples of proven practices. Possible topics
include, but aren’t limited to,

    the architect’s impact, including social, organizational, and
technical aspects;
    architect career paths and competencies;
    the skills and responsibilities that belong and don’t belong to
architects, for educating undergraduate students and graduates to be
successful architects;
    growing and managing the body of knowledge related to software
architecture practice;
    empirical studies of how practicing professionals use software
architecture tools and techniques;
    practical experiences and industry case studies on how the
architect’s role has facilitated or hindered success;
    industry experiences from software architecture education,
certification, and career development initiatives; and
    industry case studies from application domains requiring specific
skills (for example, multidisciplinary systems of systems,
cyber-physical systems, platform-as-a-service and other cloud computing
offerings, big data, and mobile computing).

Questions?

For more information about the focus, contact the guest editors:

    Gregor Hohpe, Allianz, Germany ghohpe at gmail.com
    Ipek Ozkaya, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, USA
ozkaya at sei.cmu.edu
    Uwe Zdun, University of Vienna, Austria uwe.zdun at univie.ac.at
    Olaf Zimmermann, University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil,
Switzerland ozimmerm at hsr.ch

Submission Guidelines

Manuscripts must not exceed 4,700 words, including figures and tables,
which count for 250 words each. Submissions in excess of these limits
may be rejected without refereeing. The articles we deem within the
theme and scope will be peer-reviewed and subject to editing for
magazine style, clarity, organization, and space. We reserve the right
to edit the title of all submissions. Be sure to include the name of the
theme or theme issue for which you’re submitting.

Articles should be novel, have a practical orientation, and be written
in a style accessible to practitioners. Overly complex, purely
research-oriented or theoretical treatments aren’t appropriate. IEEE
Software doesn’t republish material published previously in other
venues, including other periodicals and formal conference or workshop
proceedings, whether previous publication was in print or electronic.

General author guidelines: http://www.computer.org/web/peer-review/magazines
Submission details: software at computer.org
Submit an article: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee