With the advent of software and electronics, automotive companies are enabling innovation to improve safety, security, driver experience, and driving automation. Increasing use of software over the years, introduced the paradigm shift by requiring automotive companies to develop their systems using architecture and model-based techniques. Although model-based techniques using e.g. MATLAB/Simulink and Stateflow are being accepted in the automotive industry as standard languages and tooling for developing automotive control software, the techniques for system and software architecture are still far from being widely accepted. This is excluding the AUTOSAR standard, which defines the language for designing and configuring automotive software architectures and identifies major architectural components of the system.

The goal of this workshop is to address issues related to the appropriate automotive system/software architecture and engineering techniques, which can be accepted by the automotive industry. Therefore, to bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of automotive system/software architecture and engineering, the international Workshop on Automotive Software Architectures (WASA) is being organized with the International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA), the premier gathering of software architecture and component based software engineering practitioners and researchers.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers (8 pages) presenting novel research ideas, significant empirical studies, successful industrial applications, or important perspectives.
• Industrial papers (4 pages) sharing industrial experience, challenges, research or technical problems, case studies.
• Position or future trend papers (4 pages) raising new ideas, challenges, ongoing research or early research results, and future trends.

List of Topics (included but not limited to)

• Automotive system/software architecture (Architecture description languages, experiences of applying AUTOSAR standard, integration of software and hardware components, communication infrastructures etc.)
• Automotive architecture design patterns
• Automotive software quality, safety, security
• Automotive component‐based software engineering
• Model‐based automotive software development and systems engineering
• Verification and validation techniques in the automotive domain
• Architecture and design of connected transport systems (autonomous vehicles and smart road infrastructure)
• Automotive software engineering and reverse engineering techniques
• Software engineering techniques for autonomous driving and cooperative vehicles (processing big data
  generated from all the sensors in the autonomous driving cars, etc.)
• Software engineering techniques for hybrid and fully electric vehicles
• Software engineering techniques for safety assurance and assessment
• Compliance management of standards or regulations
• Novel software engineering approaches in automotive software engineering (e.g. continuous integration, software ecosystems)

Committees

Program Committee

• Darko Durisic, Volvo Cars, Sweden
• Yaping Luo, Altran Netherlands B.V., Netherlands
• Miroslaw Staron, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Organizing committee (preliminary)

• Darko Durisic, Volvo Cars, Sweden (Chair)
• Yaping Luo, Altran Netherlands B.V., Netherlands (Co-chair)
• Miroslaw Staron, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden (Co-chair)
• Yanja Dajsuren, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
• Harald Altinger, Audi, Germany
• Andreas Vogelsang, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
• Ramesh S., General Motors, USA
• Krzysztof Czarnecki, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Alois Knoll, Technische Universität München, Germany
• Mark G.J. van den Brand, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
• Sebastian Siegl, Audi, Germany
• Reinder Bril, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
• Simon Fürst, BMW Group, Germany
• Alexander Serebrenik, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
• Karsten Schmidt, Audi, Germany
• Christian Berger, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden
• Merijn de Jonge, SEGULA Technologies Nederland BV, Netherlands
• Marta Olszewska, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
• Deok Jin Lee, Kunsan National University, South Korea
• Huafeng Yu, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA

Publication

WASA'18 proceedings will be published in the ICSA (International Conference on software Architectures) companion proceedings.

Venue

The conference will be held at Northeastern University Seattle Campus, Seattle, United States (WA)

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Darko Durisic (darko.durisic@volvocars.com) and/or Yaping Luo (y.luo2@tue.nl).