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Upcoming Events in Software Architecture

This page lists upcoming conferences, workshops, and calls for participation that explicitly include "software architecture" among their topics of interest.

Do you know of upcoming events of general interest related to software architecture? Let us know.

A schedule of SEI software architecture courses is listed on the Software Architecture Curriculum Web page.

In The Spotlight ...

Fourth SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN 2008) Workshop, 28 April - May 1 2008, Pittsburgh USA.

SATURN is open to all software architecture practitioners. It will bring together engineers, architects, technical managers, and product managers to exchange best practices in developing and acquiring software architectures and using them to build predictable, high-quality systems using both SEI and non-SEI architectural methods, techniques, and practices. The keynote speakers scheduled for SATURN 2008 are Philippe Kruchten, professor of software engineering at the University of British Columbia, and Eoin Woods, software and enterprise architect at the UBS Investment Bank. A new feature of this year’s SATURN is the opportunity for you to take an SEI software architecture course on April 28 and 29 at the workshop location.

 

Software Architecture Conferences, Workshops, and Calls for Participation

  • The Journal of Systems and Software solicits papers for its software architecture section, which appears in each issue of the journal. This section provides a platform for academic and industrial research in Software Architecture. Topics of interest include architecture in industrial software engineering, software architecture techniques, and architecture centric reuse.

    The Journal of Systems and Software is currently soliciting papers for a special issue on "Design Decisions and Design Rationale in Software Architecture."

  • The Microsoft Architecture Journal is a platform for "free thinkers and practitioners of IT architecture." They regularly issue calls for authors to submit papers. The topic of the current issue is "The Role of the Architect."

  • Fourth SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Workshop, 28 April - 1 May 2008, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA: SATURN is open to all software architecture practitioners. It will bring together engineers, architects, technical managers, and product managers to exchange best practices in developing and acquiring software architectures and using them to build predictable, high-quality systems using both SEI and non-SEI architectural methods, techniques, and practices. The keynote speakers scheduled for SATURN 2008 are Philippe Kruchten, professor of software engineering at the University of British Columbia, and Eoin Woods, software and enterprise architect at the UBS Investment Bank. A new feature of this year’s SATURN is the opportunity for you to take an SEI software architecture course on April 28 and 29 at the workshop location.

  • 3rd International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2008), 4 - 7 May, 2008, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal: The mission of the ENASE (Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering) series of working conferences is to be a prime international forum to discuss and publish research findings and IT industry experiences with relation to evaluation of novel approaches to software engineering. By comparing novel approaches with established traditional practices and by evaluating them against software quality criteria, ENASE conferences advance knowledge and research in software engineering, identify most hopeful trends and propose new directions for consideration by researchers and practitioners involved in large-scale software development and integration. Topics of interest include architectural design and meta architectures, and service-oriented architectures.

  • 30th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 10-18 May 2008, Leipzig, Germany: The International Conference on Software Engineering is the premier software engineering conference, providing a forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and concerns in the field of software engineering. Topics of interest include software architecture and design.

  • Third Workshop on SHAring and Reusing architectural Knowledge (SHARK 2008), part of the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (ICSE 2008), 10 - 18 May 2008, Leipzig, Germany: This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners (especially architects) to focuses on current software architecture notational and documentation approaches, tackling this problem: methods, languages, notations, tools to extract, represent, share, use and re-use architectural knowledge.

  • Early Aspects at ICSE: Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering and Architecture Design (EA 2008), part of the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (ICSE 2008), 10 - 18 May 2008, Leipzig, Germany: The general aim of this workshop is to facilitate cross-fertilization of ideas in product line practice, requirements engineering, domain engineering, software architecture design, and aspect-oriented software development in order to identify the problems and potential solutions and continue the maturation of Early Aspects as a discipline. The specific aim of this workshop is to stimulate integration of the work on early development activities for product lines with the work for Early Aspects.

  • 1st International Workshop on Leadership and Management in Software Architecture (LMSA'08), co-located with ICSE, 11 May 2008, Leipzig, Germany: The workshop will focus on leadership and management skills for the practicing software architect - i.e., critical aspects of leadership that tend to overshadow any technical skills as project size and complexity increase.

  • The International Workshop on Software Architectures and Mobility (SAM 2008), In conjunction with The 30th International Conference on Software Engineering, 10 - 18 May 2008, Leipzig, Germany: The workshop will focus on the challenges faced when moving from fixed to mobile settings (i.e., there is a lack of systematic software engineering methods and techniques which can assist in developing and evolving mobile software systems). The goal of this workshop is to address issues concerning requirements and domain engineering, software architectures, and middleware to systematically develop and evolve architectures supporting mobility.

  • 10th International Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR 2008), 25-29 May 2008, Beijing, China: ICSR is the major international conference in the field of software reuse. The main goal of ICSR is to promote interaction between researchers and practitioners. We invite Research Papers, Workshop Proposals, Tutorial Proposals, Symposium Descriptions and Tool Demonstrations. The theme of this year is “Architecture Based High Confidence Software Reuse”. Topics of interest include architecture-based software reuse, and software product lines, software product families, and domain engineering.

  • 2nd Workshop on Middleware-Application Interaction (MAI'2008), 3 June 2008, Oslo, Norway, co-located With DisCoTec federated conferences 2008: MAI'2008 aims at providing researchers with a forum for discussing the state of the art of approaches to middleware-application interaction and for identifying challenging open problems. The goal of the workshop is to bring together active researchers in the different fields that relate to the workshop topic.

  • 12th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2008), 8-12 September 2008, Limerick, Ireland: SPLC is the premier forum for practitioners, researchers, and educators to present and discuss experiences, ideas, innovations, as well as concerns in the area of software product lines. SPLC 2008 will be the 12th official gathering of the product line community and will take place in Limerick, one of Ireland’s top technology and educational centers. SPLC looks back on a history of a successful exchange of ideas and cooperation among product line practitioners and researchers on product line techniques, methods, and tools. This has led to innovative research ideas and successful industrial product lines. The objective of SPLC 2008 is to continue this dialogue. Topics of interest include architectural styles and patterns for product lines.

  • 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2008), 15-19 September 2008, L'Aquila, Italy: The International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) brings together researchers and practitioners to share ideas on the foundations, techniques, tools, and applications of automated software engineering. Related topics include domain modelling and meta-modelling, product line architectures, reengineering, and software architecture and design.

  • Second European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2008), 29 September - 1 October 2008, Paphos, Cyprus: ECSA 2008 bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to share novel ideas on the foundations, languages, models, techniques, tools, and applications of software architecture technology.

  • 3rd IFIP TC2 Central and East European Conference on Software Engineering Techniques (CEE-SET 2008), 13-15 October 2008, Czech Republic: The conference is a forum for exchanging ideas and experiences concerning software engineering techniques. They are soliciting original and unpublished papers, from European countries and beyond, showing strengths and weaknesses of various software engineering techniques.

  • Federated Events on Component-Based Software Engineering and Software Architecture (COMPARCH 2008), 14-17 October 2008, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany. COMPARCH 2008 brings together the 11th International Symposium on Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE 2008), the Workshop on Component-based High Performance Computing (CBHPC 2008), and the Fourth International Conference on the Quality of Software-Architectures (QoSA 2008).

  • Sixteenth ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT 2008 / FSE 16), 9-15 November 2008, Atlanta, Georgia, USA: SIGSOFT 2008 brings together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to exchange new results related to both traditional and emerging fields of software engineering. SIGSOFT 2008 includes the 16th International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, which features invited speakers and technical paper presentations. SIGSOFT 2008 also includes a program of workshops on current hot topics in software engineering, sessions for educators and students, and collocated events. Architecture and design are among the topics of interest.