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==Preface==
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2978/msr4sa-preface.pdf
Preface of the 1st International Workshop on Mining
Software Repositories for Software Architecture
(MSR4SA’21)
Mohamed Soliman1 , Ivano Malavolta2 and Mehdi Mirakhorli3
1
University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
2
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
3
Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USA
Abstract
Mining software repositories (MSR) became essential to support several software architectural design activities, such as
architectural recovery, architectural knowledge capturing, mining architectural tactics, etc. Nevertheless, MSR to support
software architecture (SA) is a challenging task, which requires expertise and focus. Moreover, MSR and SA are two separate
communities with a small intersection. On the one hand, SA researchers are concerned with proposing approaches to
support architectural activities. On the other hand, the MSR community exploits different software repositories, and applies
systematically many data mining techniques. MSR4SA aims to create the starting point for a dedicated research community,
which focuses on applying MSR techniques to resolve architectural problems.
Keywords
Software Architecture, Mining Software Repositories
1. Motivation and Objectives https://msr4sa.github.io/msr4sa2021/
The program committee members of MSR4SA 2021
The goal of MSR4SA is to gather researchers and practi- are:
tioners from both the MSR and SA communities to create
the starting point for a dedicated research community, • Michel Albonico, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
which focuses on applying MSR techniques to resolve Federal University of Technology - Parana (UTFPR),
architectural problems. Moreover, we aim to create the The Netherlands
first future research agenda for the research area of MSR • Francesca Arcelli Fontana, University of Milano-
for SA. Bicocca, Italy
This is the first edition of the MSR4SA workshop and • Neil Ernst, University of Victoria, Canada
it will be held jointly with SAEroCon 2021, the 8th Work- • Bradley Schmerl, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
shop on Software Architecture Erosion and Architectural • Roberto Verdecchia, Vrije Universiteit Amster-
Consistency. The MSR4SA 2021 program includes one dam, The Netherlands
keynote by Nenad Medvidovic (Professor of Computer • Ipek Ozkaya, SEI - Carnegie Mellon University,
Science, University of Southern California) titled "Mining USA
Architectural Information to Stem Technical Debt", 2 pa-
• Magiel Bruntink, Software Improvement Group,
per presentations, and a working session to discuss chal-
The Netherlands
lenging of MSR for software architecture. MSR4SA 2021
• Antonino Sabetta, SAP Labs, France
received 2 submissions. Each submission went through
a thorough reviewing process, with each paper receiv- • Heiko Koziolek, ABB Corporate Research, Ger-
ing at least three reviews. After a discussion, we have many
accepted both submissions. We expect the workshop to • Elisa Yumi Nakagawa, University of São Paulo,
pave the ground for having a dedicated research commu- Brasil
nity focussing on the integration of MSR research with • Peng Liang, Wuhan University, China
software architecture research (and practice). The list of • Barbora Buhnova, Masaryk University, Czech Re-
accepted papers is published at the workshop website: public
• Arie van Deursen, Delft University of Technology,
ECSA’21: European conference on software architecture, September The Netherlands
13–17, 2020, Växjö, Sweden • Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen, The
" m.a.m.soliman@rug.nl (M. Soliman); i.malavolta@vu.nl Netherlands
(I. Malavolta); mehdi@se.rit.edu (M. Mirakhorli)
© 2021 Copyright for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative • Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adeleide,
Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
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Australia
• Ian Gorton, Northeastern University, USA
• Yuanfang Cai, Drexel University, USA
• Rick Kazman, University of Hawaii , USA
• Stefan Wagner, University of Stuttgart, Germany
• David Lo, Singapore Management University, Sin-
gapore
• Matthias Galster, University of Canterbury, New
Zealand
• Patrick Mäder, Technische Universität Ilmenau,
Germany
• Joshua Garcia, University of California, Irvine,
USA
• Mauricio Aniche, Delft University of Technology,
The Netherlands
• Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy
• Peng Liang, Wuhan University, China
We are most grateful to all the authors for their sub-
missions to MSR4SA 2021, and to the invited Program
Committee members for their valuable time and effort
in reviewing and discussing the submitted papers. We
also want to extend our gratitude to the organizers of
ECSA 2021 for their support in the organization of the
workshop and the publication of the proceedings.
We look forward to seeing you at MSR4SA and ECSA
2021!
Mohamed Soliman (University of Groningen, The Nether-
lands) Ivano Malavolta (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
The Netherlands) Mehdi Mirakhorli (Rochester Institute
of Technology, USA) — MSR4SA 2021 workshop co-organizers