QoSA 2014 - 9th International ACM SIGSOFT Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures

In this year's QoSA we particularly solicit contributions that explore this holistic system perspective, connect quality of software architecture to system architecture or other system considerations, and explore foundations for assuring the desirable quality of systems that rely on software. 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 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 standards and reference architectures
model-driven methods and tools for architecture design and implementation
Architecture Evaluation
quality assessment of legacy systems and third party applications
empirical validation, testing, prototyping and simulation for assessing architecture quality
quality attributes of software architectures
methods and processes for evaluating architecture quality
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
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
applications to industrial case studies and use cases