QoSA 2012 - 8th International ACM Sigsoft Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures QoSA 2012

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Evolving Architectures
design decisions and their influence on the quality of software architecture
maintaining software architectures in the presence of change
architectural refactorings and their implications for quality
architectural patterns and their quality impacts
architectural standards and reference architectures
model-driven architecture (MDA) and quality aspects
Architecture Evaluation:
quality assessment of legacy systems and third party applications
lessons learned and empirical validation of theories and frameworks on architecture quality
empirical validation of testing, prototyping, simulation for assessing architecture quality
models and specification techniques to evaluate quality of large and heterogeneous applications
attributes of software architectures
languages for architectural modeling that allow the evaluation of quality characteristics
processes for evaluating architecture quality
evaluating the effects of architectural adaptations at run-time
applications to industrial case studies and use cases
Architecture Management:
assessment and enforcement of architectural conformance throughout the software lifecycle
traceability of software architecture to requirements and implementation
integration and assessment of large and heterogeneous software architectures
Application Domains:
component-based and service-oriented systems
software product-lines
pervasive and autonomic systems
industrial control systems