CFP: IEEE ICSA2027 New & Emerging Ideas (NEMI) Track

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CALL FOR PAPERS

ICSA 2027 New and Emerging Ideas (NEMI) Track
https://conf.researchr.org/track/icsa-2027/icsa-2027-new-and-emerging-ideas

The 24th IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture
Sydney, Australia, 8-12 March 2027

ICSA is ranked A in the CORE conference rankings.

The goal of the New and Emerging Ideas (NEMI) track at ICSA is to encourage
the software architecture community to propose new software architecture
research visions and ideas, which can potentially challenge the status quo
of the software architecture discipline (research and practice) and point
to new directions and opportunities.

The ICSA 2027 NEMI track seeks the contributions that fall under one or
more of the following:
- Visions or exciting new directions supported by a robust and
well-motivated scientific foundation or practical application with concrete
plans going forward.
- Arguments or results that challenge established results or beliefs,
providing evidence that calls for fundamentally new directions, opening up
new research avenues or software architecture practices.
- Thought-provoking reflections, bold and unexpected (even negative)
results, and position papers that can help us look at current research
directions in a new light, calling for new directions for future research.
- Radically new approaches, techniques, or theories that can bring new
results to software architecture research or practice; may have yet to be
supported by solid experimental results, but are nonetheless supported by
strong and well-argued scientific intuitions as well as concrete plans
going forward.
- Not yet fully mature, work in progress research results, which may lack
full validation, however they should be supported by initial scientific
evidence. These initial results should point to important scientific
novelty or gaps that can stimulate reflection.

[Formatting and Submission]
All NEMI submissions must conform to the author's Instructions (
https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) and must not
exceed 5 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures.
All NEMI submissions will follow a double-anonymous review process. The
papers must be submitted electronically via EasyChair (track: ICSA 2027 New
and Emerging Ideas): https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsa2027.

Submissions must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under
review or submitted for review elsewhere while under consideration for ICSA
2027 NEMI track. All submissions will be checked with an anti-plagiarism
tool.

Note that in addition to an oral plenary presentation at the conference,
authors of accepted papers may be offered the possibility to also bring a
poster describing their work further to showcase their work to a broader
ICSA audience.

[Publication and Attendance]
All accepted contributions will be published in ICSA 2027 Companion
proceedings and will appear in IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Note that at
least one author of an accepted contribution is required to register and
present the work at the conference. In the absence of restrictions, an
in-person presentation is required. All submissions must conform to the
IEEE paper formatting and submission instructions and must not exceed 5
pages. The submissions must conform to the author instructions as well as
to the IEEE Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Generated Text.

[Important Dates]
Abstract Submissions: December 16, 2026
Paper Submissions: December 20, 2026

[Track Co-Chairs]
Elena Navarro, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain;
[email protected]
Feng Xia, RMIT University, Australia; [email protected]

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