Foundational principles of software architecture

Linking requirements engineering and software architectures

Quality attributes and software architectures

Architectural design, analysis and evaluation

Architecture description languages and meta-models

Architecture verification and validation

Management of architectural knowledge, decisions, and rationale

Cross disciplinary efforts and software architecture

Architectural patterns, styles and tactics, reference architectures

Architecture viewpoints and views

Architecture conformance

Architecture-based synthesis, code generation

Architecture transformation and refinement

Architecture refactoring and reengineering, reverse engineering

Architecture-based evolution

Architectures for reconfigurable and self-adaptive systems

Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Web services,

Architectures for ultra-large scale, long-lived systems and systems-of-systems

Software architecture and the cloud

Software architecture and big data

Software architecture and virtualization

Architectures for cyber-physical systems

Architectural concerns of autonomic systems

Architecture-centric process models and frameworks

Software architecture and agility

Architecture-centric model driven engineering

Component-based models and deployment, middleware

Software architecture and system architecture, including software-defined networking

Software tools and environments for architecture-centric software engineering

Industrial applications, case studies, best practices and experience reports

Empirical studies, systematic literature reviews and mapping studies in software architecture.