The IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA) is the premier gathering of practitioners and researchers interested in software architecture, component-based software engineering, and quality aspects of complex software systems. The 24th IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2027) continues the tradition of a working conference, where practitioners and researchers meet and where software architects can explain the challenges they face and try to influence the future of the field. Interactive working sessions will be the place where researchers meet practitioners to identify opportunities to create the future.

Software engineering is undergoing a rapid transformation: AI is becoming more intimately involved with supporting software development activities, including improving developer-written code, reviewing changes, and even writing entirely new code. In such an environment, the importance of software design and architecture becomes more predominant. The theme of ICSA 2027 is The Enduring Role of Software Architecture in an Evolving Landscape.

ICSA 2027 seeks innovative contributions that explore the opportunities and challenges presented by these advancements. We seek papers that propose new methodologies, tools, and best practices for integrating AI into software architecture or architecting AI-enacted systems. Additionally, we welcome case studies highlighting both successful and unsuccessful applications of these technologies, providing valuable insights into their practical implications and potential pitfalls.

Besides the main theme, we call on researchers and practitioners for contributions that advance our understanding of architectures in real-world software systems, facilitate empirical research by making architectural artifacts and tools publicly available, and promote replicability of results through common datasets and benchmarks. We welcome original papers that explore and explain the role of architecture in current and future systems. This conference looks at what can be learned from our software architecture history, experience, studies, and best practices.

Topics

Topics of interest for the conference include (but are not limited to) the following:

    Requirements & Architecture
        Stakeholder management and collaboration with other domains
        Linking architecture to requirements and/or implementation
        Linking architecture to spec-driven development (SDD)
        Methods to address the intertwining of specification and design
        Sustainability, ethics, business, financial, and managerial aspects of software architecture
    Architecture Design
        Model-driven architecture
        Component-based software engineering
        Architecture frameworks and architecture description languages
        Reusable architectural solutions & architecture knowledge management
    Cloud-native Computing & Architecture
        Microservices & containerization
        Serverless platforms & novel forms of virtualization
        Event-driven architectures
        Observability & distributed tracing
    Architecture Evaluation
        Evaluating quality aspects (e.g., security, performance, reliability, evolvability)
        Architecture conformance checking
        Real-time architecture observability and adaptation beyond static compliance
        Lightweight evaluation methods
        New and emerging quality attributes, architectural tactics, and evaluation methods, including for energy consumption and environmental impact measurement and assessment
    Architecture & its lifecycle
        Automatic extraction and generation of software architecture descriptions
        Architecture in continuous software engineering, including CI/CD and DevOps
        Refactoring and evolving architecture design decisions and solutions
        Agile architecting, continuous architecting, and other architectural approaches
    Architecture & Architects
        Roles and responsibilities for software architects
        Training, soft skills, coaching, mentoring, education, and certification
        Architecture for equality, diversity, and inclusion
        State of the art and state of practice in software architecture
        Architecture copilot for supporting architects
    Architecture for specific types of systems
        Edge / Fog / Internet of Things (IoT) systems / IoB systems
        AI / ML / LLM-based systems
        Systems using blockchains
        Cyber-physical systems
        Self-adaptive & autonomous systems
        Agent / multi-agent systems, including agentic AI systems
    Architecture & Generative AI
        Design assistance and identification of architectural patterns
        Decision making support, comparing technologies, evaluating trade-offs
        Code generation from architecture designs
        Architectural design supported by generative AI
        Architecture principles for AI systems