QoSA 2015 - 11th International ACM Sigsoft Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures QoSA 2015

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