Current and emerging topics in software architecture (ECSA 2010 Workshops Summary)

Since 2004 in St. Andrews (Scotland, U.K.), ECSA the European Conference on Software Architecture (formerly EWSA, the European Workshop on Software Architecture) has been considered as an important meeting point for researchers and practitioners on the topic of software architecture. ECSA has matured from a workshop format to a full software engineering conference in the subfield of software architecture. This year, ECSA has become more ambitious and expanded its scope and schedule up to four full days. The program includes a series of tutorials, a doctoral mentoring program, and four full-day workshops. New and existing software challenges have led to a variety of trends in software architecture research, which makes the conference and workshops more attractive and promotes the discussion on current and emerging topics. Based on the scientific and technical interest of the topics, the innovativeness of workshop topics, and the capacity of the conference workshop program, the workshop co-chairs selected four workshops from the nine submitted proposals. We summarize the aims and goals of each workshop and the contributions accepted for the four workshops: • 2nd International Workshop on Software Ecosystems (EcoSys). Piers Campbell, Faheem Ahmed, Jan Bosch, Sliger Jansen. • 1st International Workshop on Measurability of Security in Software Architectures (MeSSa). Reijo Savola, Teemu Kranstén, Antti Evesti. • 8th Nordic Workshop on Model Driven Software Engineering (NW-MODE). Andrzej Wasowski, Dragos Truscan, Ludwik Kuzniarz. • 1st International Workshop on Variability in Software Product Line Architectures (VARI-ARCH). Alexander Helleboogh, Paris Avgeriou, Nelis Boucke, Patryck Heymans. The ECSA 2010 Workshop co-chairs would like to thanks all workshop organizers for their effort and enthusiasm to attract submission in different software architecture research topics and make the ECSA 2010 workshops a success.