Call for Papers

Scope

Current society heavily relies on software and software systems. Due to its increasing complexity, the design and operation of software systems are becoming challenging. In the last decades, a great deal of effort has been put into addressing software systems design, development, and maintenance challenges. Empirical evidence shows that one of the most critical success factors when developing software systems is their Software Architecture (SA). A SA describes software systems in terms of software components, their interactions, and critical quality attributes. Among other benefits, SAs improve the overall communication among different stakeholders, are the carriers of significant design decisions, promote the use of different abstraction levels, and allow for the early assessment of the software under development.
Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is a paradigm that refers to the systematic use of models as first-class entities throughout the software engineering life cycle. MDE shifts the focus of software development from third-generation programming languages to models. Within MDE, models are manipulated automatically using software programs, also known as model transformations.
In recent years, several studies have been discussing the interplay of SA and MDE, focusing on the benefits of combining these two disciplines. For instance, several works have been proposing the use of metamodels and modeling languages and the formal representation of software (reference) architectures. Other works have focused on using models and metamodels to represent the different structures and quality views. Additional research has been investigating the use of model transformations as automation to enable early analysis and simulation of SAs. Eventually, the interplay between SA and MDE could be beneficial from a tooling perspective, as it would enable the re-use of techniques and technologies used for manipulating (meta)models in the context of SAs.
Despite the advancements, several open challenges still compel the effective interplay between SA and MDE.
MDE4SA 2025 aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners where novel and innovative solutions to current and future challenges on the interplay between SAs and MDE can be presented and discussed

Topics of interest

The workshop is a forum where researcher and practitioners can share current problems and innovative solutions including, but not limited to:
- Model-driven techniques and methodologies for designing SA
- Architectural description of SA design, considering logical and physical aspects through MDE
- Model-driven approaches for defining and measuring Quality-of-Service (QoS) in SAs
- Analysis of architectural designs and architectural patterns
- Approaches for migrating legacy architecture towards microservice architectures, serverless by means of MDE techniques
- Industrial practices and tools supporting the adoption of MDE into SA
- Methodologies adopted in industrial contexts
- Model repositories for SA
- Code generation from SA models and transformation approaches
- Change Propagation in SA views and consistency management
- Evolution of SA through modeling
- Empirical studies on SA and MDE areas

Important Dates

Paper Submission

December 20th, 2024

Notification to authors

January 20th, 2025

Camera Ready

January 27th, 2025

Submission

We solicit full papers (no more than 8 pages, including references) and short papers (no more than 4 pages including references) of the following types:
- Technical papers presenting novel contributions relevant to the workshop topics
- Work in progress papers presenting preliminary results in applying MDE to software architecture
- Visionary papers on open problems and future research challenges
- Experience papers describing the use of MDE in software architecture within industrial context
Contributions must be written in English, adhere to the IEEE Computer Science proceedings format, and be submitted through EasyChair
All submissions must be original work and must not have been previously published or being under review elsewhere.
The accepted papers will be published to the ICSA 2025 Companion proceedings, and appear in IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
For each accepted paper, at least one of the authors must register for the workshop, participate fully in the workshop, and present the paper at the workshop.

Program

T.B.A.

Committees

Organizers


Francesco Basciani

Computer Science Scientific Area, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila (Italy)


Enxhi Ferko

Academy of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen University, Västerås (Sweden)


Malvina Latifaj

Academy of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen University, Västerås (Sweden)



Program Committee


  • - Imad Berrouyne, Mälardalen University (SE)
  • - Romina Eramo, University of Teramo (IT)
  • - Luca Berardinelli, Johannes Kepler University Linz (AT)
  • - Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila (IT)
  • - Juergen Dingel, Queen's University (CA)
  • - Manuel Wimmer, Johannes Kepler University Linz (AT)
  • - Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, MetaCase (FI)
  • - Antonio Cicchetti, Mälardalen University (SE)
  • - Daniele Di Pompeo, University of L'Aquila (IT)
  • - Bran Selic, Malina Software Corp. (CA)
  • - Martina De Sanctis, Gran Sasso Science Institute (IT)
  • - Ilias Gerostathopoulos, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
  • - Jan Carlson, Mälardalen University (SE)
  • - Elena Lisova, Mälardalen University (SE), VCE (SE)
  • - Jakob Pietron, Ulm University (DE)
  • - Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and Stellenbosch University (SU) (NL/ZA)
  • - Judith Michael, RWTH Aachen University (DE)
  • - Raffaela Groner, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg (SE)


Steering Committee


Alessio Bucaioni

Academy of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen University, Västerås (Sweden)


Amleto Di Salle

Computer Science Scientific Area, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila (Italy)


Ludovico Iovino

Computer Science Scientific Area, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila (Italy)



Web Chair


Amleto Di Salle

Computer Science Scientific Area, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila (Italy)