*** Last Call for Papers (Research/Industry) ***
19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2025)
September 15-19, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus
https://conf.researchr.org/home/ecsa-2025
(*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***)
The European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) is the premier European software
architecture 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 research and practice. The 19th European Conference on
Software
Architecture (ECSA 2025) will be held from September 15 to 19, 2025. ECSA 2025 is planned
as
an in-person conference taking place in the beautiful city of Limassol (Cyprus).
SCOPE
The theme for ECSA 2025 is “impactful software architecture”. The software architecture
discipline has had a critical role in shaping robust, scalable, and maintainable systems.
We are
interested in learning about software architecture principles and practices, emergence
trends
and case studies highlighting strategic architectural choices that can lead to enhanced
performance, improved collaboration, and long-term sustainability. The overarching
question is
how these architectural principles and practices, both well-established and emerging,
are
making an impact in real-world systems, and how that impact is being felt across various
domains, from enterprise systems to more novel areas like, e.g., AI-driven or autonomous
applications?
The Program Committee of the 19th European Conference on Software Architecture seeks
submissions of original and unpublished high-quality papers describing fundamental and
applied research; new methods, approaches, and processes; novel applications; education
and
training in software architecture; and experience reports on all topics related to
software
architecture.
We particularly encourage papers that demonstrate that diversity in gender, culture,
religion,
country, etc. are key factors for success and innovation in software architecture.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Foundational principles of software architecture
• Relationship of requirements engineering and software architecture
• Quality attributes and software architectures
• Architecture practices for secure, explainable, and trustworthy software
• Architecture design and analysis
• Architecture description languages and meta-models
• Architecture verification and validation
• Management of architectural knowledge, decisions, and rationale
• Architecture patterns, styles, and tactics; reference architectures
• Architecture viewpoints and views
• Architecture conformance
• Software architecture virtualization and visualization
• Architecture-centric process models and frameworks
• Software architecture and agile, incremental, iterative, and continuous development
• Component-based models and deployment; middleware
• Software architecture and system architecture
• Software tools and environments for architecture-centric software engineering
• Ethics, cultural, economic, business, social, human, and managerial aspects of
software
architecture
• Architecture and technical debt
• Architecting for sustainable and environment friendly systems
• Applying AI and LLMs in software architecture and architecting for AI and LLM
intensive
systems
• Software architecture education
• Cross-disciplinary approaches to software architecture
• Architectures for reconfigurable and self-adaptive systems
• Architectural concerns of autonomic systems
• Software architecture applied to new and emerging areas, such as the cloud/edge, big
data,
blockchain, cyber-physical systems, IoT, autonomous systems, systems-of-systems, energy-
aware software, quantum computing, AI-enabled systems
• Empirical studies, systematic literature reviews, and mapping studies in software
architecture
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion in activities related to software architecture
RESEARCH PAPERS
ECSA 2025 seeks four types of papers for the research track:
• Research 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)
• Education and training papers (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) that address
methodologies,
experiences and best practices for teaching and training software architecture
• Experience reports (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) that cover innovative
implementations,
novel applications, insightful performance results and experience in applying software
architecture research advances to practical situations and systems
• Short papers (max. 8 pages in LNCS style) that present novel and preliminary work-in-
progress or challenges in a topic of software architecture research, education, and
training.
Submissions must have a sound basis, but not necessarily be validated in full.
All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review process. Papers will
be
selected based on originality, quality, soundness, and relevance. All contributions must
be
original, not published, accepted, or submitted for publication elsewhere. Contravention
of this
concurrent submission policy will be deemed a serious breach of ethics, and appropriate
action
will be taken in all such cases. Plagiarism checking will be conducted and any paper
reporting
more than a 20% match with published work will be desk-rejected.
To note is that research papers, education and training papers, and experience reports
that are
rejected in their categories may be re-evaluated as short papers only if the committee
decides
on rejection of the full paper on the basis that it presents preliminary work.
The research track of ECSA 2025 supports an Open Science policy. We encourage all
contributing authors to disclose (anonymized and curated) data/artifacts to increase
reproducibility. Note that sharing research artifacts is not mandatory for submission or
acceptance. Upon submission to the research track, authors are required:
• To make their artifacts available to the program committee (via a link to an anonymous
repository) and provide instructions on how to access this data in the paper; or
• To include in the paper an explanation as to why this is not possible or desirable;
and
• To indicate why they do not intend to make their data or study materials publicly
available
upon acceptance, if that is the case
While sharing research artifacts is not mandatory for submission or acceptance, authors
are
required to include a Data Availability statement after the Conclusions section in a
section
named "Data Availability". This statement should explain whether or not data
and/or artifacts
are available or how they could be accessed (or not). Upon acceptance, papers with Open
Science artifacts (e.g., data, tools, etc.) will be invited to upload their artifacts into
the ECSA
Zenodo community (
https://zenodo.org/communities/ecsa/) to make them accessible and
visible to the ECSA community. Sharing artifacts via the ECSA Zenodo community is required
for
authors to be eligible for the best Open Artifact award.
All contributions must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style
(
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…).
Page limits include figures and references.
Contributions need to be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair to the ECSA 2025 Research
Track:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2025. Please select the “Research
Track”
in EasyChair for your submission and click "Continue".
The proceedings will be published by Springer as part of the LNCS series. We also plan
to
organize a Journal Special Issue on the theme of ECSA 2025 and to invite authors of
selected
papers to submit an extended version of their research.
INDUSTRY PAPERS
The Industry Track at ECSA 2025 brings together practicing software architects and
software
architecture researchers from regional, European, and worldwide communities. We are
seeking
contributions from industry that share challenges, practical solutions, successful
practices,
failures, and lessons learned while analyzing, designing, implementing, evaluating, and
evolving software architectures.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following themes:
• Experience with architectures for emerging technologies, like LLM, and Agent-based
system
• Domain-specific challenges for software architects and architectures
• Architecture specification and documentation
• Architectural patterns, tactics, and tools
• Practices and methods supporting architecture design, evaluation and evolution
• Integration of architectural practices and methods with other software engineering
approaches/practices/methods (e.g. Agile)
• Social and organizational aspects, like human-machine, human-AI interactions,
human-in-the-loop
The ECSA 2025 Industry track aims to contribute to bridging the gap between academia and
industrial practice by establishing an open communication and discussion environment. It
will
offer researchers and practitioners the opportunity to interact with fellow professionals
and
develop new ideas and skills for addressing industrial problems and collaborations.
There are three ways to contribute:
Full Papers (up to 16 pages in Springer LNCS style) describing best practices and
experience
from applying novel approaches to large-scale industrial projects in the context of
software
architecture. Submissions will be selected based on originality, quality, soundness,
practical
relevance, and potential for discussion.
Short Papers and Presentations (6-10 pages in Springer LNCS style) outlining
presentations
on practices and experience related to software architecture from the industry.
Submissions
will be selected based on originality, practical relevance, and potential for
discussion.
Software Architecture Showcases (6 pages in Springer LNCS style) demonstrating a
specific
real-world architecture (including its flaws) together with a discussion of the context,
challenges, and/or process that led to its present form. It can be formulated as an
abstract
outlining the architecture to be presented, preferably together with links to externally
available
work products.
Submissions will be selected based on the offered insights into real architectural work,
work
products, and learnings related to architecture. All contributions need to be written in
English,
must be original, not published, accepted, or submitted for publication elsewhere. If
accepted,
each contribution needs to be presented by one of the authors who is registered at the
conference.
All contributions must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style
(
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…).
Page limits include figures and references.
Contributions need to be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair to the ECSA 2025 Research
Track:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2025. Please select the “Industry
Track”
in EasyChair for your submission and click "Continue".
IMPORTANT DATES
• Abstract submission: March 14, 2025
• Paper submission: March 21, 2025
• Notification: May 9, 2025
• Camera-ready paper: June 23, 2025
Early/Author registration: June 27, 2025
All dates are 23:59h AoE (Anywhere on Earth).
ORGANISATION
General Chairs
• Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland
• Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Groeningen, The Netherlands
Program Co-Chairs
• Nour Ali, Brunel University London, UK
• Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, Pisa
Industry Co-Chairs
• Miroslaw Staron, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
• Xiwei (Sherry) Xu, CSIRO's Data61, Australia