Topics

The CASA 2020 workshop is interested in all the topics concerning the architectural aspects in Context-aware, Autonomous, and Smart (CASA) solutions. Please find below several examples of possible topics:

• software architectures: surveys, issues, challenges, comparisons;
• architecture frameworks;
• architecture description languages;
• models, standards, and techniques;
• model-driven engineering approaches;
• CASA and Big Data, Internet-of-Things, Machine Learning;
• local, edge, cloud computing;
• autonomous, self-adaptive, and coordination;
• real-time/latency-awareness;
• social and technological issues;
• evolution and maintenance issues;
• privacy, safety, security, cyber-physical issues;
• testing and evaluation;
• software architectures in CASA case studies and applications (e.g., healthcare, banking, fintech, human resources management, agriculture, education);
• teaching software architectures;
• current practices and open topics in ongoing and developed projects.

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Important Dates

Papers submission: June, 24th, 2020 - Extended: new deadline: June 30th, 2020
Notification: July, 15th, 2020
Camera ready: July, 17th, 2020

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Submission Guidelines

The workshop invites two types of submissions:

• full research and experience papers, presenting novel contributions concerning the architectural aspects of context-aware, autonomous, and smart solutions; the length of full/experience workshop papers shall be maximum 12 pages;
• short and position papers, presenting promising preliminary results from work-in-progress or research challenges in software architectures for context-aware, autonomous, and smart solutions; the length of short/position workshop papers shall be maximum 8 pages;
• industrial papers, introducing industrial case studies or experiences in software architectures for context-aware, autonomous, and smart solutions; the length of industrial papers shall be maximum 8 pages;
• extended abstracts, related to how and why smartness, autonomy, context-awareness of software systems is or should be influenced, changed, improved in the era of COVID 19. We are all in smart working, smart learning, smart surviving, so how this new situation is or will be reflected in the software solutions? Potential authors are encouraged to submit their thoughts, analysis, and proposals concerning the current and future trends in this area in this era; the length of these papers should be between 2 and 4 pages.

All the papers must be written in English and should follow Springer format available at the Spinger web site as indicated also at: ECSA 2020 web site .

Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least 3 members of Program/Organizing Committee (or their sub-reviewers) and selection of accepted papers will be based on relevance, quality and originality of the submitted papers. For each accepted paper, at least one of the (co)author(s) is expected to be present at the workshop and to present the paper.

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Publication

All the accepted papers will be published in the ECSA2020 Companion by Springer.

We plan to invite the accepted papers to a special issue on the topics of the workshop in a journal. More information will be soon provided.

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Accepted Papers:

• Jasmin Jahic and Robin Roitsch. State of the Practice Survey: Predicting the Influence of AI Adoption on System Software Architecture in Traditional Embedded Systems
• Niranjana Deshpande and Naveen Sharma. Composition Adaptation in Service Oriented Systems
• Mai Abusair, Mohammad Sharaf, Antinisca Di Marco and Paola Inverardi. A statistical approach for context-awareness of mobile applications
• Eoin Grua, Martina De Sanctis and Patricia Lago. A Reference Architecture for Personalized and Self-adaptive e-Health Apps

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Workshop Program:

9:30 - 10:30 Keynote "Handling Conflicting Requirements: a Primer" by Paolo Ceravolo, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy. SLIDES.

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:20 First Session: CASA@ECSA Workshop - Chair: Claudia Raibulet

11:00 - 11:20 Eoin Grua, Martina De Sanctis, and Patricia Lago. A Reference Architecture for Personalized and Self-adaptive e-Health Apps. SLIDES

11:20 - 11:40 Mai Abusair, Mohammad Sharaf, Antinisca Di Marco, and Paola Inverardi. A statistical approach for context-awareness of mobile applications. SLIDES

11:40 - 12:00 Niranjana Deshpande and Naveen Sharma. Composition Adaptation in Service Oriented Systems. SLIDES

12:00 - 12:20 Jasmin Jahic and Robin Roitsch. State of the Practice Survey: Predicting the Influence of AI Adoption on System Software Architecture in Traditional Embedded Systems. SLIDES

12:20 -14:05 Break

14:05 - 14:30 Second Session: IOT-ASAP@ECSA Workshop - Chair: Ilias Gerostathopoulos

14:05 - 14:10 Opening IoT-ASAP

14:10 - 14:30 Rasmus Svensson, Adell Tatrous, and Francis Palma. Defining Design Patterns for IoT APIs.

14:30 - 14:45 Break

14:45 - 16:05 Third Session: SASI4@ECSA Workshop - Chair: Rafael Capilla and Pablo Oliveira Antonino

14:45 - 15:00 Opening SASI4

15:00 - 15:20 Frank Schnicke, Thomas Kuhn, and Pablo Oliveira Antonino. Enabling Industry 4.0 Service-oriented Architecture through Digital Twins.

15:20 - 15:40 Björn Leander, Aida Causevic, Hans Hansson and Tomas Lindstrom, Access Control for Smart Manufacturing Systems.

15:40 - 16:00 Thomas Kuhn, Pablo Oliveira Antonino and Frank Schnicke, Industrie 4.0 Virtual Automation Bus Architecture.

16:00 -16:15 Break

16:15 - 16:45 Discussion on smart architecting, smart working, smart learning, smart vacation, workation, etc in research and industry: what's next?

16:45 - 17:00 Concluding remarks

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