Call for Papers
                          7th European Conference on Software Architecture - ECSA 2013
                                 July 1-5, 2013, Montpellier, France
                                      http://www.lirmm.fr/ecsa13/

Due to numerous requests the deadlines have been extended:

* The deadline for submitting abstracts has been extended to March 3rd, 2013.
* The deadline for uploading the PDF of the paper (for submitted abstracts) has been extended to March 7th, 2013. 


Scope

The European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) is the premier European conference providing researchers, practitioners, and educators with a platform to present and discuss the most recent, innovative and significant findings and experiences in the field of Software Architecture.

Venue

The 7th ECSA will be held in Montpellier, France, colocated with ECOOP 2013 and ECMFA 2013 in a unique gathering in software related trends. The joint organization of these key conferences provides a unique opportunity to gather practitioners and researchers on software architecture, modelling and development.

Theme

ECSA 2013 seeks submissions of original papers describing basic and applied research, novel applications, research challenges and experience reports on all topics related to software architecture, including, but not limited to:
- architecture description, modelling, languages,
- reference architectures, architectural styles, patterns,
- architectural decisions, architectural knowledge,
- architecture analysis, validation, verification,
- architecture transformation, refinement, implementation,
- architecture evolution, variability,
- architecture reengineering, recovery,
- architecture for reconfigurable, adaptive systems,
- architecture conformance, run-time monitoring, autonomic management,
- architecture for systems-of-systems, complex systems, critical systems, networked systems,
- software tools/environments for software architecture,
- processes, methods, techniques and tools for architecture-centric software engineering,
- architecture-centric model driven engineering,
- requirements engineering and software architectures,
- quality attributes and extra-functional properties for software architecture,
- service-oriented architecture, component-based architecture, service discovery, composition, orchestration, choreography,
- technology and frameworks supporting software architecture,
- industrial applications, case studies, best practices and experience reports.

Submissions

ECSA 2013 seeks four types of submissions to foster the active participation of researchers and practitioners:
- Full research papers and Experience papers (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) which describe novel contributions to software architecture research (submissions should cover work that has a sound scientific/technological basis and has been validated).
- Emerging research papers (max. 8 pages in LNCS style) which present promising preliminary results from work-in-progress in a topic of software architecture research (submissions should cover work that has a sound basis, but perhaps has not been validated in full).
- Research challenge papers (max. 4 pages in LNCS style) which present significant research challenges in theory or practice of software architecture (submissions should clearly present the research questions and their rationale). All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous peer review process, and be selected based on originality, quality, soundness and relevance. All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The submissions should be prepared using the Springer LNCS style.

In addition, authors of best papers will be invited to submit revised and extended versions of their papers for the Special Issue "Advanced Architectures for the Future Generation of Software-Intensive Systems" in the Elsevier journal Future Generation Computer Systems (IF 1.978) <http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems>

Submissions link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2013


Dates

Abstract submission: 24 February 2013 => extended to March 3th 2013 
Paper submission: 3 March 2013 => extended to March 7th 2013 
Author notification: 6 April 2013 
Camera-ready copy submission:     19 April 2013 
Early registration: 1 June 2013 
Late registration: 30 June 2013 

Conference Organization
General Chair:
Marianne Huchard, LIRMM -  Univ. of Montpellier
Conference Chair:
Flavio Oquendo, IRISA - Univ. of South Brittany
Program Committee Chair:
Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS - Univ. of Toulouse

Steering Committee Chair:
Flavio Oquendo, IRISA - University of South Brittany, France

Steering Committee Members:
Muhammad Ali Babar, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Ivica Crnkovic, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Carlos E. Cuesta, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS - University of Toulouse, France
Ian Gorton, Pacific Northwest Labs, USA
Volker Gruhn, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Rick Kazman, SEI/CMU and University of Hawaii, USA 
Tomi Männistö, Aalto University, Finland

Programme Committee:
Ahmed Hadj Kacem, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Alexander Egyed, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Andrea Zisman, City University London, UK
Anna Liu, National ICT Australia, Australia
Antonia Lopes, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Antony Tang, Swinbourne University of Technology, Australia
Bedir Tekinerdoğan, Bilkent Üniversitesi, Turkey
Bradley Schmerl, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Carlos Cuesta, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
Cecilia Rubira, University of Campinas, Brazil
Claudia Maria Lima Werner, Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, Brazil
Claudia Raibulet, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland
Cristina Gacek, City University London, UK
Danny Weyns, Linnaeus University - Växjö, Sweden
Darko Huljenic, Ericsson Nikola Tesla
David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Dewayne Perry, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Eduardo Santana de de Almeida, Federal University of Bahia and RiSE, Brazil
Elena Navarro, Castilla-La Mancha University, Spain
Elisa Yumi Nakagawa, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Gerald Kononya, Lancaster University, UK
Henry Muccini, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Ian Gorton, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Ismael Bouassida Rodriguez, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Ivica Crnkovic, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Jan Bosch, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Javier Cámara, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Jennifer Pérez,Technical University of Madrid (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Spain
Jesper Andersson, Linnaeus University - Växjö, Sweden
John Grundy, Swinbourne University of Technology, Australia
José Luiz Fiadeiro, University of Leicester, UK
José Carlos Maldonado, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Kai Koskimies, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Laurence Duchien, University of Lille & INRIA, France
Liming Zhu, NICTA & UNSW, Australia
Marco Bernardo, University of Urbino, Italy
Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Mourad Oussalah, University of Nantes – LINA, France
Muhammad Ali Babar, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Nenad Medvidovic, University of Southern California, USA
Nicole Levy, Cédric - CNAM, France
Paola Inverardi, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Patricia Lago, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Philippe Kruchten, University of British Columbia, Canada
Prabhakar Tadinada, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Rafael Capilla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Rainer Weinreich, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria
Régis Fleurquin, IRISA - Univ. of South Brittany, France
Riccardo Scandariato, KU Leuven, Belgium
Robert Nord, Software Engineering Institute, USA
Rogerio De Lemos, University of Kent, UK
Sam Malek, Computer Science, George Mason University, USA
Thais Batista, UFRN – Federal University of Rio Grande do Nort, Brazil
Tomas Bures, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Tomi Männistö, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Uwe Zdun, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Valérie Issarny, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France
Volker Gruhn, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Wilhelm Hasselbring, Kiel University, Germany