SA-TTA 2021

Motivation and Scope

Nowadays Software Architecture is considered a consolidated and necessary discipline centered on the idea of reducing complexity in software development and evolution through abstraction and separation of concerns. Designing software architectures that enable provisioning and evolution of functional requirements and exhibit a good tradeoff between multiple quality attributes (or extra-functional requirements) is hard and still challenging. At the same time having adaptable software architectures able to change their topology and behavior to overcome certain environmental situations is still under analysis in different domains especially when they are used to realize complex and distributed systems (i.e., systems of systems). The goal of the track SA-TTA is to bring together researchers and industry R&D having the common objective of transforming Software Architecture into a mature discipline leveraging on both solid scientific foundations and validated engineering methodologies and tools. SA-TTA is focused broadly on how to address functional requirements and quality characteristics in the design, maintenance, adaptation and evolution of software architectures through the support of automated techniques and tools. Of special interest are architecture description languages, formalisms, techniques, methodologies, tools, and runtime environments that support these activities, possibly exploiting model-driven engineering principles. A special emphasis will be put also on technical aspects of software architectures development for specific class of software systems and application domains.

Call for Papers

SA-TTA will be a forum on Software Architecture for scholars, educators, research scientists, engineers, and practitioners on the following topics:

Architecture description languages and component models for Software Architectures
Model-driven methodologies and tools for Software Architecture modeling and analysis
Architectural patterns, tactics, styles, viewpoints, and tool support
Software architecture and development practices such as agile development, DevOps and global software development
Architecture quality measures and tool support
Formal validation and verification techniques for Software Architectures
Linking architecture to requirements and implementation
Testing based on Software Architecture
Recovery of Software Architecture
Architecture evolution and migration
Software Architectures for Software Product Lines
Architecture based software evolution and maintenance
Software Architectures for legacy systems and systems integration
Service-oriented Architectures and Microservices
Domain-specific architectures for complex advanced systems:

Safety-critical systems and Cyber Physical Systems
Systems of Systems and software ecosystems
AI-based systems
Software Architectures for multi-paradigm distributed computing (cloud-enabled applications, Mobile Cloud applications, Cloud IoT applications, Sociotechnical systems, etc.)
Self-adaptive systems and intelligent autonomous systems
Software Architectures for Data-Intensive Systems and Big Data
Software Architectures for Blockchain-based applications
Industry 4.0 processes and ecosystems
Smart and reliable systems and environments (smart home, smart buildings, smart cities, and IoT systems, smart factories, etc.)

State-of-the-art and state-of-practice in software architecture
Industrial experiments and case studies

Submission

Paper submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via the SAC 2021 website.

Two types of submissions are allowed: regular papers and student research competition (SRC) abstracts.

Regular papers: Authors are invited to submit original unpublished papers. Submission of the same paper to multiple tracks is not allowed. The program committee will blindly review submissions to the track. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review.

Regular papers are limited to 8 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include up to 2 additional pages at extra charge (max of 10 pages).
Posters are limited to 3 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include only one (1) additional page at extra charge (max of 4 pages).

Regular submission

Student Research Competition: The SAC 2021 Student Research Competition (SRC) program provides graduate students the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researchers and practitioners in their areas of interest. Active graduate students seeking feedback from the scientific community on their research ideas are invited to submit abstracts of their original un-published and in-progress research work in the Software Architecture focus area. Student research abstracts are limited to 4 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. No extra pages are allowed.

SRC submission

Further details on the paper format, template, and submission guidelines can be found on the SAC 2021 website.

NOTE: Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of registered papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library.

Important dates

Submission (regular & SRC): ~~Sept. 15, 2020~~ Oct. 12, 2020 (EXTENDED)
Notification: Nov. 24, 2020
Camera-ready: Dec. 21, 2020
SAC Conference: March 22-26, 2021

Accepted papers

Analysing and Extending Privacy Patterns with Architectural Context. Su Yen Chia, Xiwei Xu, Hye-Young Paik and Liming Zhu
Architectural Strategies for Interoperability of Software-Intensive Systems: Practitioners' Perspective. Pedro Henrique Valle, Lina Garcés and Elisa Yumi Nakagawa
Identification of Microservices from Monolithic Applications through Topic Modelling. Miguel Brito, Jácome Cunha and Joao Saraiva
A Temporal Configuration Logic for Dynamic Reconfigurable Systems. Antoine El-Hokayem, Marius Bozga and Joseph Sifakis
COACH: Classification-based Architectural Patterns Detection in Android Apps. Chaima Chekhaba, Hocine Rebatchi, Ghizlane El Boussaidi, Naouel Moha and Sègla Kpodjedo

Accepted posters

Interactive Source Code to Software Architecture Mapping Using System Documentation. Zipani Tom Sinkala and Sebastian Herold
Securing Software-intensive System-of-Systems through a Game Theory Approach. Jamal EL HACHEM, Elena LISOVA and Aida CAUSEVIC

Program co-chairs

Matteo Camilli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Sungwon Kang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea
Patrizia Scandurra, University of Bergamo, Italy

Program committee

Yamine Ait-Ameur, IRIT/ENSEEIHT, France
Jesper Andersson, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Paolo Arcaini, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Marco Autili, Università dell'Aquila, Italy
Marcello M. Bersani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK
Stephanie Challita, Inria, France
Guglielmo De Angelis, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Naranker Dulay, Imperial College London, UK
Eva Kuehn, TU Wien, Austria
Chan-gun Lee, Chung-Ang University, Korea
Jihyun Lee Chonbuk, National University, South Korea
Claudio Menghi, University of Luxembourg
José Javier Merseguer, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Henry Muccini, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Elisa Yumi Nakagawa, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Ilenia Ober, Université Paul Sabatier, France
Diego Perez-Palacin, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Clément Quinton, University of Lille, France
Alexander Raschke, Universität Ulm, Germany
Antonino Sabetta, SAP Research, France
Lionel Seinturier, Univ. Lille & IUF - LIFL & Inria ADAM, France
Marjan Sirjani, Malardalen University, Sweden
Maria Spichkova, School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University Melbourne, Australia
Damian A. Tamburri, TU/e JADS, Netherlands
Kenji Tei, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), Italy
Xiwei Xu SSRG, NICTA, Sydney, Australia

Steering committee

Antonio Bucchiarone, SOA Research Unit of Bruno Kessler Foundation of Trento, Italy
Sungwon Kang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea
Raffaela Mirandola, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Patrizia Scandurra, University of Bergamo, Italy

The 9th SA-TTA track @ SAC 2021