============================================= QoSA 2015 11th International ACM Sigsoft Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures Montreal, Canada, May 4 - 8, 2015 http://qosa.ipd.kit.edu/qosa_2015/ part of CompArch 2015 http://comparch2015.org collocated with WICSA 2015 - 12th Working IEEE / IFIP Conference on Software Architecture ============================================= GOALS and SCOPE The goal of QoSA (Quality of Software Architectures) is to address the quality aspects of software architecture, focusing broadly on its quality characteristics and how these relate to the design of software architectures. Specific issues of interest are defining and modeling quality measures, evaluating and managing architecture quality, linking architecture to requirements and implementation, and preserving architecture quality throughout the system lifetime. QoSA is the premier forum for the presentation of new results in the area of software architecture quality. It brings together researchers, practitioners and students who are concerned with software architecture quality in a holistic way. As a working conference QoSA has a strong practical bias, encompassing research papers, industrial reports and invited talks from renowned speakers. This year the main theme of QoSA is Software Architecture for the 4th Industrial Revolution. After mechanization, mass production, and electronics, the Internet is about to enable a new level of productivity in manufacturing. This shall be enabled by smart cyber-physical systems connected to cloud computing services and communicating using standardized semantics. In the near future, industrial big data analytics on monitored sensor data shall improve the efficiency and individualization of production facilities. The IT systems for this 4th Industrial Revolution will be partially self-adaptive and may require novel approaches for software architecting. In this year's QoSA we particularly solicit contributions that explore the various implications of this upcoming industrial revolution on software architecture. This includes reference architectures, software architectures adapting at run time, architecture styles and patterns for cyber-physical and distributed systems, as well as approaches exploring critical quality properties, such as performance, reliability, security, safety, maintainability, and usability. At the same time, submissions related to the general topic of the conference are welcome. ============================================= TOPICS Topics of interest for the conference include (but are not limited to) the following themes: Architecture Design and Implementation - design alternatives, trade-offs, and their influence on the quality of software architecture - adapting software architectures to address changes in software and its environment - architectural refactorings and their implications for quality - architectural standards and reference architectures - model-driven methods and tools for architecture design and implementation - architecture patterns and styles improving various quality attributes Architecture Evaluation - empirical validation, testing, prototyping and simulation for assessing architecture quality - performance, reliability, maintainability, security and other quality attribute evaluations - methods and processes for evaluating architecture quality (also in presence of the change) - model-driven evaluation of software architecture quality - evaluating the effects of architectural adaptations at run-time - lessons learned and empirical validation of theories and frameworks on architecture quality - quality assessment of legacy systems and third party applications Architecture in the 4th Industrial Revolution - architectures for self-adapting embedded and physical systems - architectures exploiting semantic web technologies for manufacturing - reference architectures for internet-of-things applications - architectures supporting decentralized, self-organizing cyber-physical systems Architecture Management - assessment and enforcement of architectural conformance throughout the software lifecycle - traceability of software architecture to requirements and implementation - models and tools for coping with software architecture evolution ============================================= IMPORTANT DATES Abstracts due: December 21, 2014 Full papers due: January 9, 2015 Notification of acceptance: February 9, 2015 Camera-ready due: February 23, 2015 ============================================= TYPES of SUBMISSIONS We solicit two types of submissions: regular papers and position papers. - Regular papers should describe original and significant results of theoretical, empirical, conceptual, or experimental research or of experience from industrial practice. Reflecting the practical emphasis of QoSA, papers showcasing applications along with a sound conceptual contribution are welcome. Regular papers are limited to 10 pages. - Position papers describe novel ideas or innovative proposals whose aim is to stimulate discussion related to experiences and ideas, rather than to present mature results. Position papers are limited to 6 pages. Papers should follow the standard ACM format for conference proceedings (alternate style) and submitted online via the EasyChair Conference Management System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qosa2015 ============================================= ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Program Chairs Ipek Ozkaya (Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, USA) Heiko Koziolek, (ABB Corporate Research, Germany) Comparch 2015 General Chair Philippe Kruchten (University British Columbia) ============================================= PROGRAM COMMITTEE Aldeida Aleti, Monash University, Australia Muhammad Ali Babar, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen, Netherlands Jan Bosch, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Barbora Buhnova, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Tomas Bures, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Yuangfang Cai, Drexel University, USA Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK Amine Chigani, GE Software Excellence Center, USA Vittorio Cortellessa, Universita dell'Aquila, Italy Ivica Crnkovic, Mälardalen University, Sweden Antinisca Di Marco, Universita' dell'Aquila, Italy Vincenzo Grassi, Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy Lars Grunske, Universität Stuttgart, Germany Clemente Izurieta, Montana State University, USA Samuel Kounev, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Anne Koziolek, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Marin Litoiu, York University, Canada John D. McGregor, Clemson University, USA José Merseguer, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Rob Nord, Software Engineering Institute, USA Dorina Petriu, Carleton University, Canada Paul Pettersson, Mälardalen University, Sweden Ralf Reussner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Jose-Raul Romero, University of Cordoba, Spain Roshanak Roshandel, Seattle University, USA Antonino Sabetta, SAP Research Sophia-Antipolis, France Klaus Schmid, University of Hildesheim, Germany Heinz Schmidt, RMIT University, Australia Mike Smit, Dalhousie University, Canada Judith Stafford, University of Colorado Boulder, USA Girish Suryanarayana, Siemens Corporate Research, India Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft Research, USA Bedir Tekinerdogan, Bilkent University, Turkey Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic Olaf Zimmermann, Hochschule Rapperswil, Switzerland =============================================