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

• Component Software Lifecycle
• Specification, architecture, design of component models and component-based systems
• Non-functional/extra-functional properties and quality attributes in component-based software engineering (e.g. quality-of-service characteristics, service level agreements)
• Cross-cutting component design concerns such as security, deployability, maintainability
• Software quality assurance for component-based engineering; component contracts
• Verification, testing and certification of component-based systems; runtime component management
• Migration to and evolution of component-based software systems (lifecycle management)
• Frontiers and Foundations
• Multi-channel component architectures
• Component composition, binding and dynamic adaptation
• Patterns and frameworks for component-based engineering
• Formal methods for automated component composition and integration
• Methods and tools for component-based engineering - including (but not limited to) continuous integration and delivery, DevOps, 12-factor apps
• Paradigms and Domains
• Component-based engineering with agents, aspects, containers and/or services
• Domain-specific component modelling - including (but not limited to) components for/in wireless and real-time systems, component-based product line engineering, domain-driven design
• Impact of cloud computing, edge computing and fog computing on component architectures
• Component Knowledge Sharing
• Industrial experience using component-based software development - including (but not limited to) lessons learned with Docker, platform-as-a-service offerings, RESTful microservices, Spring componentries, Java Enterprise Edition, .NET, app stores
• Empirical studies in component-based software engineering
• Teaching component-based software engineering