Architecture and CI&D, DevOps, and/or Microservices

Model driven engineering for continuous architecting

Up-front architecture and agile development

Architecting Systems of Systems, IoT systems, CPSs, software ecosystems, self-adaptive systems, or autonomous systems

Component based software engineering and architecture design

Architecture evaluation and quality aspects of software architectures

Automatic extraction and generation of software architecture descriptions

Re-factoring and evolving architecture design decisions and solutions

Architecture frameworks and architecture description languages

Linking architecture to requirements and/or implementation

Preserving architecture quality throughout the system lifetime

Reusable architectural solutions

Software architecture knowledge management

Software architecture for legacy systems and systems integration

Architecting families of products

Cultural, economic, business and managerial aspects of software architecture

Software architects roles and responsibilities

Training, education, and certification of software architects

State-of-the-art and state-of-practice in software architecture

Industrial experiments and case studies