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ECSA 2021 Doctoral Symposium Preface
Radu Calinescu 1 and Genaína Rodrigues 2
1
    University of York, United Kingdom
2
    University of Brasilia, Brazil


    Continuing the long tradition of the European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA), the
doctoral symposium at ECSA 2021 offered PhD students a unique opportunity to receive feedback on
their research projects in the broad field of software architecture. The symposium accepted submission
from PhD students at both early and advanced stages of their doctoral research. The students were
encouraged to present their research settings, goals, methods, (preliminary) results, and a critical
reflection on their work, by interacting closely with established researchers in their specific areas.
Despite the logistical challenges faced due to the COVID–19 pandemic that significantly affected the
organization of this year’s conference and transformed it into a virtual event, the symposium enabled
the students to disseminate their research and obtain constructive feedback on their current results and
future research plans.
    Every submission was reviewed by three members of the Program Committee. The evaluation was
based on technical quality of the submission, including clarity, adequacy of the problem tackled,
position to related work, self-contained solution description, expected results and evaluation plan, the
overall quality, originality of the submission, the novelty of the research approach, and relevance to
ECSA 2021. For this edition, we received high-quality submissions, and after a thorough review
process, eight papers were accepted for presentation at the symposium. Professor Paola Inverardi gave
an inspiring keynote talk entitled ‘On the Axiom of Software Architecture Existence’ that was equally
appreciated by the PhD students and the senior ECSA attendees.
    We thank the ECSA Organizing Committee for their continuous support with the planning and
running of the symposium. We are grateful to the members of the Doctoral Symposium Program
Committee for evaluating the submissions and guiding the next generation of researchers in the field of
software architecture in their initial steps as research professionals. We thank the PhD students who
submitted papers to the symposium, and who actively participated in discussing their research projects
at the event. We also express our appreciation to the keynote speaker for accepting our invitation, and
for her thought-provoking keynote talk. These contributions from across our community led to an
engaging symposium, which provided constructive feedback and new input to the PhD students, and
continued to develop a spirit of collaborative research within the software architecture community.




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ECSA’21: 15th European Conference on Software Architecture, September 13–17, 2021, Växjö, Sweden
EMAIL: radu.calinescu@york.ac.uk (A. 1); genaina@unb.br (A. 2)
ORCID: 0000-0002-2678-9260 (A. 1); 0000-0003-1661-8131 (A. 2)
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Organization

Doctoral Symposium Chairs
Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK
Genaína Rodrigues, University of Brasilia, Brazil

Doctoral Symposium Program Committee
Rami Bahsoon, University of Birmingham, UK
Thais Batista, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Tomas Bures, Charles University, Czech Republic
Siobhán Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Ivica Crnkovic, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Ingrid Nunes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil
Colin Paterson, University of York, UK
Patrizio Pelliccione, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy; Chalmers - University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Cecilia Rubira, UNICAMP, Brazil
Patrizia Scandurra, University of Bergamo, Italy
Thomas Vogel, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

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