Software Architecture

- Challenges and Opportunities in Quantum Software Architecture. - Software Architectures for AI Systems: State of Practice and Challenges. - Architecting and Engineering Value-Based Ecosystems. - Continuous Alignment Between Software Architecture Design and Development in CI/CD Pipelines. - An Empirical Basis for Software Architecture Research. - A Better Way to Teach Software Architecture.

Patrizio Pelliccione is a Professor and Director of the Computer Science area at Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI, Italy). His research topics are mainly in software engineering, software architecture, and autonomous systems. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of L'Aquila (Italy). Thereafter, he worked as a senior researcher at the University of Luxembourg in Luxembourg, then assistant professor at the University of L'Aquila in Italy, and then Associate Professor at both Chalmers University of Gothenburg in Sweden and the University of L'Aquila.

Rick Kazman is the Danny and Elsa Lui Distinguished Professor of Information Technology Management at the University of Hawaii and a Visiting Researcher at the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University.  His primary research interests are software architecture, design and analysis tools, software visualization, and technical debt.

Anna Liu is currently Head ofResearch and Innovation at Amazon Web Services, based in Sydney Australia. Prior to joining Amazon, Anna held a professorial appointment at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), and research directorship at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). She has been a practising software architect for 20+ years spanning Microsoft, Amazon, financial services and government agencies. She is passionate about software architecture education.Ingo Weber is Full Professor at the Technical University of Munich, Computer Science Department, and Director at Fraunhofer, Germany. Beforehand, he held positions at TU Berlin, CSIRO Data61, NICTA and UNSW in Sydney, Australia, and SAP Research. In his research, Ingo works on business process management, software architecture and engineering, DevOps, blockchain, and applied AI. He is author of numerous publications and co-author of the books "DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective" (2015) and "Architecture for Blockchain Applications" (2019).