Call for Papers
Software architectures are being reshaped by the rapid rise of AI-intensive systems, large language models, and increasing automation in software engineering activities. At the same time, architects face growing challenges related to system complexity, quality trade-offs, ongoing evolution, and sustainability. At the heart of these challenges is architectural and software engineering knowledge, including design decisions, patterns, rules, metrics, models, and assumptions. How this knowledge is captured, represented, reasoned about, shared, and evolved is becoming increasingly important, especially as AI techniques are used both within software systems and to support software engineering itself. This workshop offers a broad and inclusive forum to explore knowledge-driven software architectures in modern systems, with a particular focus on how knowledge-driven architectures and software engineering principles can inform, support, and automate architectural decision-making throughout the software and AI lifecycles. Instead of concentrating on a single paradigm or technology, the workshop welcomes diverse perspectives, methods, and maturity levels, aiming to foster discussion, share early results, and build a vibrant community around knowledge-driven approaches to software architecture in the age of AI.
Topics
Topics include, but are not limited to:
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Architectural Knowledge and Decision-Making
- Architecture decision records (ADRs) and decision rationale.
- Architectural patterns, antipatterns, smells, and metrics.
- Knowledge representation, traceability, and consistency in architectures.
- Architecture theory, principles, and foundational models. Knowledge-Driven Software Engineering
- Knowledge-centric approaches to software and system architecture.
- Rule-based, constraint-based, or model-driven architecting.
- Architectural knowledge graphs, ontologies, and repositories.
- Continuous and automated management of architectural knowledge. AI and Architecture
- Architectures of AI-enabled, data-intensive, and ML-based systems.
- Use of AI, LLMs, or agents to support architecting activities.
- AI-assisted design, analysis, validation, refactoring, and documentation.
- Multi-agent and autonomous architectural systems.
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Architecture Lifecycle and Evolution
- Architectural refactoring, migration, and modernization.
- Monolith-to-microservices and service decomposition.
- Continuous architecting and architecture-as-code.
- Architectural decay prevention and recovery. Quality Attributes and Trade-offs
- Performance, scalability, resilience, and reliability.
- Security, privacy, and trust at the architectural level.
- Sustainability, energy efficiency, and environmental impact.
- Cost, operability, and maintainability considerations. Self-Adaptive and Dynamic Architectures
- Feedback loops and control architectures.
- Self-managing, self-adaptive, and self-evolving systems.
- Edge-cloud, distributed, and heterogeneous environments.
Important Dates
Submissions Deadline
February 13, 2026 February 20, 2026
Acceptance Notification
March 13, 2026
Camera Ready
March 27, 2026
Workshop
June 22, 2026 (TBC)
Note: Deadlines are AoE (UTC-12h).
Submissions
All submissions must adhere to the IEEE Computer Science proceedings formatting guidelines and be submitted through the official ICSA submission system. Contributions should be submitted before the deadline using the online platform: EasyChair and must be original, not previously published, and not under review elsewhere.
The review process will follow a single-blind model: reviewers will have access to the authors' identities, whereas the reviewers' identities will remain anonymous to the authors.
Types of Contributions
We welcome high-quality, original contributions in the following formats:
- Research Papers (8 pages, IEEE format): Novel frameworks, methodologies, or empirical studies.
- Short papers (2-4 pages, IEEE format): Position papers, preliminary results, tool demos, or experience reports.
Committee
Organizing Committee
- Anders Launer Bæk-Petersen University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
- Mahyar T. Moghaddam University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
- Jakob Hviid University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Program Committee
- Aslak Johansen University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
- Jakob Hviid University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
- Francesco Daghero University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
- Sune Lundø Sørensen University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
- Matteo Esposito University of Oulu, Finland
- Alexander Bakhtin University of Oulu, Finland
- Klara Borowa Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Accepted Papers
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| CellFlow: A Tool For Automatic Jupyter Notebook Workflow Visualization | Selin Coban, David Kierdorf, Cagatay Akpinar and Horst Lichter |
| An Efficient Approach for Model Recovery from Image Containing Diagrams | Gopal Shendge, Lisha Ahuja, Chandan Prakash, Pavan Kumar Chittimalli and Ravindra Naik |
| CAKE: Cloud Architecture Knowledge Evaluation of Large Language Models | Tim Lukas Adam, Phongsakon Mark Konrad, Riccardo Terrenzi, Florian Girardo Lukas, Rahime Yilmaz, Krzysztof Sierszecki and Serkan Ayvaz |
| An Empirical Analysis of LLM-Driven Refactoring for Microservices | Abdullah Huzeyfe Köse, Rahime Yılmaz and Feza Buzluca |
Program
WIP: TBC...
The KDA-AI 2026 workshop has been joined with the Behaviors 2026 workshop on Architecting Behavior-Aware Software Systems (Website: Behaviors) to make a full day plan.
The program has been composed of presentations of accepted papers, followed by open discussions on the presented work and a shared keynote.
| Time | Event | Speaker(s)/Author(s) | Session Chair(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09.00-09.10 | Welcome and Opening Remarks - Behaviors: Architecting Behavior-Aware Software Systems | Behaviors Committee | TBD: Mina, Sherkan, or Mahyar |
| 09.15-09.35 | Human-in-the-Loop in MLOps: A Systematic Review on Balancing Automation and Human Oversight | Louisa Klüter, Dóra Kementzey, Faezeh Amou Najafabadi, Keerthiga Rajenthiram and Ilias Gerostathopoulos | TBD: Mina, Sherkan, or Mahyar |
| 09.40-10.00 | Toward Behavior-Based Adaptive Decision-Making Systems for Cognitive Cities | Rawan Alraddadi, Mohammad Alshayeb, Sajjad Mahmood and Mahmood Niazi | TBD: Mina, Sherkan, or Mahyar |
| 10.05-10.25 | Human Behaviour as a Security Boundary: Affective AI and Behavioural Analytics for Cybersecurity | Zain Akbar, Anilson Monteiro and Jhonny A. Mosquera Ocampo | TBD: Mina, Sherkan, or Mahyar |
| 10.30-11.00 | Session Break | ||
| 10.05-11.25 | Rewriting the Maze: Developer Experiences Moving from Bare Metal C to Lingua Franca in Embedded CPS | Maciej Jakub Grasela, Rahime Yilmaz and Krzysztof Sierszecki | TBD: Mina, Sherkan, or Mahyar |
| 11.30-12.25 | Open Discussion on Presented Papers | TBD: Mina, Sherkan, or Mahyar | |
| 12.25-12.30 | Closing Remarks and Summary | Behaviors Committee | TBD: Mina, Sherkan, or Mahyar |
| 12.30-13.30 | Session Lunch | ||
| 13.30-14.00 | TBD: Shared Keynote | TBD | TBD: Mina, Sherkan, or Mahyar and Anders, Mayhar, or Jakob |
| 14.00-14.10 | Welcome and Opening Remarks - Knowledge-Driven Architectures for AI Systems | KDA Committee | TBD: Anders, Mayhar, or Jakob |
| 14.10-14.30 | CellFlow: A Tool For Automatic Jupyter Notebook Workflow Visualization | Selin Coban, David Kierdorf, Cagatay Akpinar and Horst Lichter | TBD: Anders, Mayhar, or Jakob |
| 14.35-14.55 | An Efficient Approach for Model Recovery from Image Containing Diagrams | Gopal Shendge, Lisha Ahuja, Chandan Prakash, Pavan Kumar Chittimalli and Ravindra Naik | TBD: Anders, Mayhar, or Jakob |
| 15.00-15.30 | Session Break | ||
| 15.35-15.55 | CAKE: Cloud Architecture Knowledge Evaluation of Large Language Models | Tim Lukas Adam, Phongsakon Mark Konrad, Riccardo Terrenzi, Florian Girardo Lukas, Rahime Yilmaz, Krzysztof Sierszecki and Serkan Ayvaz | TBD: Anders, Mayhar, or Jakob |
| 16.00-16.20 | An Empirical Analysis of LLM-Driven Refactoring for Microservices | Abdullah Huzeyfe Köse, Rahime Yilmaz and Feza Buzluca | TBD: Anders, Mayhar, or Jakob |
| 16.25-16.55 | Open Discussion on Presented Papers | TBD: Anders, Mayhar, or Jakob | |
| 16.55-17.00 | Closing Remarks and Summary | KDA Committee | TBD: Anders, Mayhar, or Jakob |
Contact
Location:
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Netherlands
Call:
+45 6550 4579