SAGRA 2016 - 2nd International Workshop on Sustainable Architecture: Global Collaboration, Requirements, Analysis (SAGRA 2016)

The goal of the SAGRA workshop is to develop a future vision and roadmap of sustainable software architectures, focusing especially on requirements engineering and methodological analysis, as well as on collaborative and intercultural aspects. The workshop aims to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners from academia and industry to baseline the state of the art in this increasingly important domain.
There are numerous challenges, and rewards, in the development of software architectures. Unsustainable, low-quality architectures perplex collaboration, slow the progress of software evolution and reduce profits. It is crucial for software systems to be sustainable, i.e. to be cost-efficiently maintained and evolved over their entire life-cycle, whereas the sustainability of the system is largely determined by the sustainability of its architecture. Designing a sustainable software architecture is a non-trivial task, especially in the case of large-scale and/or long-living systems. The task becomes even more complicated when we take into account collaborative and intercultural aspects of the software development, requirements traceability and big data management.