Software systems are becoming more and ture (SA) and ML. As a result, there have been more complex due to their ever-increasing per- emerging contributions from the scientific and vasive nature, resulting in various architect- practitioner community in these two research ing challenges to ensure better performance, areas. However, these contributions are scatreliability, security, etc. On the other hand, tered across diferent communities of software the field of Machine Learning (ML) has ad- engineering, self-adaptation, ML, etc. The obvanced rapidly with the availability of a larger jective of the First International Workshop amount of data, better computing infrastruc- on Software Architecture and Machine Learnture supplemented by the increasing number ing (SAML) 2021 was to bring together pracof domain experts. This revolution has span titioners and the research community in one ned across the diferent software domains, and common platform to explore: i) how to come as the years progress, software systems, by up with better SA practices for architecting leveraging ML, are moving from the notion ML-based systems; ii) how to leverage ML of being another software to more intelligent techniques to better architect software syssoftware systems. However, the increasing tems; iii) state of research and practice in aradoption of AI, especially ML, has given rise chitecting ML-based systems and in using ML to diferent challenges associated with devel- techniques for architecting modern software opment practices, deployments, ensuring data systems. quality, etc., in addition to the challenges of a The SAML 2021 workshop was held in virtraditional software system. In recent times, tual mode on September 14, 2021, and was both the research and practitioner commu- collocated with the European Conference on nity have started exploring these research ar- Software Architecture (ECSA). The workshop eas at the intersection of Software Architec- received a total of six high-quality submissions (two full papers, three short papers, and one position paper) with authors representing seven diferent countries. After a thorough single-blind peer-review process involving three members from the Program Committee per submission, five were accepted (one full paper, three short papers, and one position paper). The accepted papers covered dif" karthik.vaidhyanathan@univaq.it (K.
Vaidhyanathan); henry.muccini@univaq.it (H.
Muccini); ivica.crnkovic@chalmers.se (I. Crnkovic); michael.keeling@gmail.com (M. Keeling); ozkaya@sei.cmu.edu (I. Ozkaya) © 2021 Copyright for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 InterCPWrEooUrckReshdoinpgs IhStpN:/c1e6u1r3-w-0s.o7r3g (nCCatEiEoUnUaRlR(C-CWBYSW4..o0o).rrgk)shop Proceedings ferent areas of using ML techniques for ex- Program Committee tracting architecture descriptions, a reference architecture for ML-enabled systems, techni- • Jan Bosch - Chalmers University of Techcal debt in ML-enabled systems, and self-adap nology, Sweden tation for ML-enabled systems.
The workshop program included a keynote • Tomas Bures - Charles University, Czech by Liming Zhu, Research Director, Data61, Republic t-AhTuehsrt,ertaNhieleiwawoRonrekaDslihitsoytproifbpMurotLegd-rbaTamsreucdsotSnAysisrstctehemditseo.cfFtupurare-- • INlieatsheGrelarnosdtsathopoulos - Vrije University, per presentations, interactive discussions, and • Ian Gorton - Northeastern University, United a panel consisting of members from academic States and practitioner communities: i) Jan Bosch, Chalmers University of Technology Sweden; • Helena Holmström Olsson - Malmö Uniii) Timothy J. Halloran, Software Engineer, versity, Sweden sUGenoaoirvcgehlrees,riUtyaS,nAUd;SLAiiei;a)adGndoraficvTe)AALSne,waCsitsaa,rsnPSertigoniyecaipMnaoelvlRlsoken-y, • UGnraitceedLSetwatiess- Carnegie Mellon University, Staf Software, Lending Home, USA. The at- • David Lo - Singapore Management Univertendees of SAML 2021 represented an inter- sity, Singapore national audience, and the discussions contributed to expanding further the research bo • Lucy Ellen Lwakatare - University of Helsinki, undaries of SA for ML and ML for SA. Finland pmrioWttveeiedwinmogeumlhdibgleihkr-seqfutooarltihtayallnrtkehvetihesewuppsr.poogWrrtaemanwcdooufmoldr- • FTionmlamndiMikkonen - University of Helsinki, also like to thank the ECSA 2021 Organizing • Jørn Ølmheim - Equinor ASA, Norway Committee, particularly the workshop chairs Matthias Galster and Patrizia Scandurra, for • Romina Spalazzese - Malmö University, Swetheir valuable help and support. den Workshop Chairs • Karthik Vaidhyanathan - University of L’Aquila,
Italy • Henry Muccini - University Of L’Aquila,
Italy • Ivica Crnkovic - Chalmers University of Tech
nology, Sweden • Michael Keeling - LendingHome, United States