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

• 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