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

• Architecture Design and Implementation
• design alternatives, trade-offs, and their influence on the quality of software architecture
• adapting software architectures to address changes in software and its environment
• architectural refactoring and its implications for quality
• architectural standards and reference architectures
• model-driven methods and tools for architecture design and implementation
• architecture patterns and styles improving various quality attributes
• Architecture Evaluation
• empirical validation, testing, prototyping and simulation for assessing architecture quality
• performance, reliability, maintainability, security and other quality attribute evaluations
• methods and processes for evaluating architecture quality (also in presence of the change)
• model-driven evaluation of software architecture quality
• evaluating the effects of architectural adaptations at run-time
• lessons learned and empirical validation of theories and frameworks on architecture quality
• quality assessment of legacy systems and third party applications
• Architecting for Deployability
• methods and tools for architecture instrumentation and monitoring
• run-time architecture modelling and analysis
• architectures supporting DevOps concepts
• methods and processes for adaptation and evolution of architectures
• architectures for self-adapting software-intensive system
• Architecture Management
• assessment and enforcement of architectural conformance throughout the software lifecycle
• traceability of software architecture to requirements and implementation
• models and tools for coping with software architecture evolution