The IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA) is the premier gathering of practitioners and researchers interested in software architecture, component-based software engineering, and quality aspects of complex software systems. The 24th IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2027) continues the tradition of a working conference, where practitioners and researchers meet and where software architects can explain the challenges they face and try to influence the future of the field. Interactive working sessions will be the place where researchers meet practitioners to identify opportunities to create the future.

Software engineering is undergoing a rapid transformation: AI is becoming more intimately involved with supporting software development activities, including improving developer-written code, reviewing changes, and even writing entirely new code. In such an environment, the importance of software design and architecture becomes more predominant. The theme of ICSA 2027 is The Enduring Role of Software Architecture in an Evolving Landscape.

ICSA 2027 seeks innovative contributions that explore the opportunities and challenges presented by these advancements. We seek papers that propose new methodologies, tools, and best practices for integrating AI into software architecture or architecting AI-enacted systems. Additionally, we welcome case studies highlighting both successful and unsuccessful applications of these technologies, providing valuable insights into their practical implications and potential pitfalls.

Besides the main theme, we call on researchers and practitioners for contributions that advance our understanding of architectures in real-world software systems, facilitate empirical research by making architectural artifacts and tools publicly available, and promote replicability of results through common datasets and benchmarks. We welcome original papers that explore and explain the role of architecture in current and future systems. This conference looks at what can be learned from our software architecture history, experience, studies, and best practices.

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

Requirements & Architecture
- Stakeholder management and collaboration with other domains
- Linking architecture to requirements and/or implementation
- Linking architecture to spec-driven development (SDD)
- Methods to address the intertwining of specification and design
- Sustainability, ethics, business, financial, and managerial aspects of software architecture

Architecture Design
- Model-driven architecture
- Component-based software engineering
- Architecture frameworks and architecture description languages
- Reusable architectural solutions & architecture knowledge management

Cloud-native Computing & Architecture
- Microservices & containerization
- Serverless platforms & novel forms of virtualization
- Event-driven architectures
- Observability & distributed tracing

Architecture Evaluation
- Evaluating quality aspects (e.g., security, performance, reliability, evolvability)
- Architecture conformance checking
- Real-time architecture observability and adaptation beyond static compliance
- Lightweight evaluation methods
- New and emerging quality attributes, architectural tactics, and evaluation methods, including for energy consumption and environmental impact measurement and assessment

Architecture & its lifecycle
- Automatic extraction and generation of software architecture descriptions
- Architecture in continuous software engineering, including CI/CD and DevOps
- Refactoring and evolving architecture design decisions and solutions
- Agile architecting, continuous architecting, and other architectural approaches

Architecture & Architects
- Roles and responsibilities for software architects
- Training, soft skills, coaching, mentoring, education, and certification
- Architecture for equality, diversity, and inclusion
- State of the art and state of practice in software architecture
- Architecture copilot for supporting architects

Architecture for specific types of systems
- Edge / Fog / Internet of Things (IoT) systems / IoB systems
- AI / ML / LLM-based systems
- Systems using blockchains
- Cyber-physical systems
- Self-adaptive & autonomous systems
- Agent / multi-agent systems, including agentic AI systems

Architecture & Generative AI
- Design assistance and identification of architectural patterns
- Decision making support, comparing technologies, evaluating trade-offs
- Code generation from architecture designs
- Architectural design supported by generative AI
- Architecture principles for AI systems
- Open Science Principles

ICSA encourages authors of research papers to follow the principles of transparency, reproducibility, and replicability. In particular, the conference supports the adoption of open data and open source principles and encourages authors to disclose data to increase reproducibility and replicability. For ICSA 2027 it is expected that accepted research papers are accompanied by an artifact that will be evaluated in the Artifacts Evaluation track. For submission of research papers, authors are expected to submit an anonymized draft of the artifact that paper reviewers can use to help evaluate the research contributions. If authors are unable to submit an artifact draft, they are asked to comment in their submitted paper on why this is not possible, practical, or desirable. Possible reasons may involve privacy restrictions and/or non-disclosure agreements.

Accepted research papers with artifacts must then follow the artifact submission guidelines and deadlines mentioned in Artifacts Evaluation track. Note that at least one author of each artifact submission is expected to review 2 or 3 other submitted artifacts.

For anonymizing the draft of the artifact, we recommend https://anonymous.4open.science/. The draft of the artefact does not have to be executable. The later artefact submission does not have to be anonymized.

Submission
We solicit the submission of technical research papers that describe original and significant results of theoretical, empirical, conceptual, or experimental work in software architecture. The submissions will be evaluated based on novelty, relevance, rigor/soundness, verifiability/transparency (open science principles as outlined above), and presentation quality. All submissions must conform to the IEEE paper formatting and submission instructions and must not exceed 10 pages for the main text, inclusive of all figures, tables, appendices, etc. Two additional pages containing only references are permitted. The submissions must conform to the author instructions as well as to the IEEE Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Generated Text. Any submission that does not comply with these guidelines may be desk-rejected without further review.

Please note that ICSA 2027 will pursue a double-anonymous review process for technical research papers only; therefore, all technical research paper submissions have to fulfill the double-anonymous reviewing requirements. Submissions that disregard these review requirements will be desk-rejected without review. For artifacts that will be published following the open science principles (see above), we ask that authors undertake reasonable, possibly non-exhaustive steps to not disclose their identity, e.g., by anonymizing author names, handles, affiliations, and URLs. The leakage of information in additional artifacts will not lead to desk rejection.

Reviewers will be asked to treat artifacts and papers as confidential. Changes to the list of authors are not permitted after submission. Track chairs are not allowed to submit papers to the track they are chairing.

All papers are to be submitted electronically via the EasyChair submission system by the submission deadline and must not have been published before or be submitted for review elsewhere while under consideration at ICSA. All submissions will be checked with an anti-plagiarism tool. Submissions found to contain plagiarized content may be desk rejected without further review.

Authors should submit their abstract by Friday, Oct 30th, 2026 AoE. Authors will be able to update submissions until Wednesday, Nov 4th, 2026 AoE.

Publication
All accepted technical research papers will be published in the ICSA 2027 main proceedings and appear in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

The authors of submissions that are rejected as technical research papers – but for which reviews show a strong potential for positively influencing the state of the art or state of practice in software architecture, or strong potential to stimulate discussion – may be invited to submit a short paper (up to 8 pages including references) or a poster (poster presented at the conference) + up to 4 pages (including references) describing their research. Short papers and poster summaries (up to 4 pages) will be published in the ICSA 2027 companion proceedings.

Note that at least one author of an accepted paper is required to register and present the work at the conference. An in-person presentation is required.


IMPORTANT DATES
Abstracts: Fri 30 Oct 2026
Paper submissions: Wed 4 Nov 2026
Acceptance Notification: Tue 15 Dec 2026

OTHER TRACKS AND SUBMISSION DEADLINES
Research Papers: Wed 4 Nov 2026
Software Architecture in Practice: Wed 4 Nov 2026
Working Sessions: TBC
Workshops: Sun 12 Apr 2026
Posters: TBC
New and Emerging Ideas: TBC
Journal First: TBC
Tutorials/Tech Briefings: TBC
Early Career: TBC
Artifacts Evaluation: TBC

WEBSITE: https://conf.researchr.org/home/icsa-2027