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Welcome to the Software Architecture Portal, website of IFIP Working Group 2.10 on Software Architecture, part of TC 2, SOFTWARE: Theory and Practice. The portal provides information about IFIP WG 2.10, the WICSA conference series, the Software Architecture Village wiki, and other resources on software architecture.

Call for Papers: SHARK 2010

The Fifth Workshop on SHAring and Reusing architectural Knowledge (SHARK 2010) will ask the community to discuss and contribute on how to reorganize and codify the Body of Knowledge of the WICSA community (WICSA BOK).

In conjunction with the 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2010), Cape Town, South Africa, 2–8 May 2010.

Submissions due: 25th January 2010

Call for Papers: Framing Stakeholders' Concerns

IEEE Software announces a special issue on "Software Architecture: Framing Stakeholders' Concerns". Architects must identify and manage a variety of architectural concerns to devise a successful architecture. This special issue is seeking papers on architecture viewpoints, architecture frameworks and architecture models and architecture description languages for identifying and modeling concerns. (Call for Papers)

Submissions due: 1 April 2010

Publication date: Nov/Dec 2010

WICSA 2011 Announced

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WICSA 2011 will be held June 2011 in Boulder, CO co-located with CompArch.

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Past News

WICSA / ECSA 2009

The 8th Working International Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA) and the 3rd European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) were merged for 2009 to provide a unique forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the latest R&D outcomes, experiences, trends, and challenges in the field of software architecture.

WICSA/ECSA 2009: 14 – 17 September 2009, in Cambridge, UK.

Visit the WICSA wiki for summaries and discussions of the sessions.

SHARK 2009

Fourth Workshop on SHAring and Reusing architectural Knowledge (SHARK 2009) was held in conjunction with the 31st Int. Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE 2009), 16 – 24 May 2009, Vancouver, CANADA

SHARK 2008

The Third Workshop on SHAring and Reusing architectural Knowledge (SHARK 2008), in conjunction with the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2008), Leipzig, Germany, 13 May 2008. More

SATURN 2008

The Fourth SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Workshop, 28 April – 1 May, open to all software architecture practitioners. More

WICSA 2008

The Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2008), is the seventh international conference devoted entirely to Software Architecture, was held 18 – 22 February 2008, in Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA.

SHARK/ADI 2007

The Second Workshop on SHAring and Reusing architectural Knowledge — Architecture, rationale, and Design Intent (SHARK / ADI 2007) took place 19 – 20 May 2007, Minneapolis, MN, USA, in conjunction with the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2007).

CompArch 2007

CompArch 2007, the Federated Events on Component-Based Software Engineering and Software Architecture, was held 9 – 13 July 2007, at Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA. More

Portal has a new logo

The Software Architecture Portal has a new logo! IFIP WG 2.10 thanks Olivier Le Goaer (Université de Nantes) for his logo design.

SATURN 2007

SEI has announced the 3rd Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) workshop, 14 – 16 May 2007 in Pittsburgh. More

WICSA 2007

The Sixth Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture was held 6 – 9 January 2007 in Mumbai, India.

IEEE Software Special Issue on Software Architecture

The March/April issue of IEEE Software celebrates 10 years of work in software architecture. More

WICSA 2005 Held

The 5th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture took place in Pittsburgh, PA 6 – 9 November 2005. More


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