[AISWorld] [SA-TTA @ ACM/SIGAPP SAC 2023] [2nd CfP] Software Architecture: Theory, Technology, and Applications

[Diego Perez]

[We apologize for multiple copies]

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SA-TTA @ ACM/SIGAPP SAC 2023
https://foselab.unibg.it/sa-tta/2023/
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The 11th technical track on Software Architecture: Theory, Technology, 
and Applications (SA-TTA),
at the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2023)

Tallinn Estonia
March 27 - March 31, 2023


IMPORTANT DATES
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- SUBMISSION: October 1, 2022
- NOTIFICATION: November 19, 2022
- CAMERA-READY: December 6, 2022


MOTIVATION AND SCOPE
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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 designing adaptable software 
architectures able to change their topology and behavior to overcome 
certain environmental situations is still being researched 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 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. SA-TTA has a special 
interest in architecture description languages, formalisms, techniques, 
methodologies, tools, and runtime environments that support these 
activities, possibly exploiting model-driven engineering principles and 
also in the technical aspects of software architecture development for a 
specific class of software systems and application domains. The track 
has a special emphasis on practical engineering concerns, experiences in 
tools development, and applications of domain-specific Software 
Architecture.


LIST OF TOPICS
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- 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 GUIDELINES
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Paper submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via the SAC 
2023 website. Two types of submissions are allowed: regular papers and 
student research 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. SA-TTA track chairs will not submit to the track. 
Submissions from SA-TTA PC members and track chairs of other SAC tracks 
are welcome.

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 an 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 
an extra charge (max of 4 pages).

SUBMIT: https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2023/submission.html

**Student Research Competition**
The SAC 2023 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 
unpublished 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.

SUBMIT: https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2023/submission_src.html

Further details on the paper format, template, and submission can be 
found on the SAC 2023 website: 
https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2023/authorkit.html


PAPER REGISTRATION AND PRESENTATION
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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/IEEE digital library. No-show of 
scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the 
ACM/IEEE digital library.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TBD)
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TRACK CHAIRS
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Matteo Camilli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy,
E-mail: matteo.camilli at unibz.it
Web page: https://matteocamilli.github.io/

Diego Perez-Palacin, Linnaeus University, Sweden
E-mail: diego.perez at lnu.se
Web page: https://lnu.se/en/staff/diego.perez/

Patrizia Scandurra, University of Bergamo, Italy
E-mail: patrizia.scandurra at unibg.it
Web page: http://cs.unibg.it/scandurra/


STEERING COMMITTEE
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Antonio Bucchiarone, SOA Research Unit of Bruno Kessler Foundation of 
Trento, Italy
E-mail: bucchiarone at fbk.eu Web page: http://soa.fbk.eu/bucchiarone

Sungwon Kang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 
Daejeon, South Korea
E-mail: sungwon.kang at kaist.ac.kr
Web page: http://salab.kaist.ac.kr/

Raffaela Mirandola, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, 
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
E-mail: raffaela.mirandola at polimi.it
Web page: http://home.dei.polimi.it/mirandola/

Patrizia Scandurra, Dept. of Management, Information and Production 
Engineering, University of Bergamo, Italy.
E-mail: patrizia.scandurra at unibg.it
Web page: http://cs.unibg.it/scandurra/