ArchDTO

Call for papers

The workshop will be conducted in two interactive sessions to foster collaboration and active participation.

Papers Section:

The first session will begin with brief presen- tations from academic experts and industry professionals. In contrast, we will transition into a hands-on, collaborative workshop in the second. For the first session, key topics include, but are not limited to:

• Requirements, Architectural Patterns and Frameworks for DTOs: PPropose requirements studies, architectural patterns such as microservices, or event-driven, and self-adaptive architectures for designing and developing DTOs.
• Architectural design languages and models for DTO: Investigating how model-driven techniques, enterprise modeling methodologies, such as Business Process Modeling (BPM), Enterprise Architecture (EA), or other frameworks (e.g., ArchiMate), contribute to accurately replicating an orga- nization’s structure, workflows, processes, and analyze data within a DTO.
• Best Practices for DTO: Engineering best practices, strategies, and method- ologies in successfully implementing DTOs. This includes approaches for de- signing scalable DTO architectures, ensuring interoperability between sys- tems, establishing data governance models, integrating real-time analytics, and defining key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess DTO effectiveness.
• Technological Enablers: Exploring the role of technological enablers like edge computing, cloud computing, AI and Gen-AI, and blockchain, and techniques such as Process Mining, low-code solutions, and others in developing DTOs and addressing DTO challenges
• Use Cases and Applications: Presenting practical applications and lessons learned of architectures for DTOs in industries such as manufacturing, health- care, logistics, and smart cities and areas like digital transformation, business development, innovation, process automation, and prediction. We can also consider submissions from real industry case studies.
• Ethics, cultural, economic, business, social, human, and managerial aspects of software architecture for DTO. Multifaceted challenges and opportunities in designing software architecture for DTOs, covering ethical issues like data privacy and AI transparency, cultural and social impacts on organizational behavior and stakeholder engagement, economic and business considerations, business model transformations, and human factors.

Workshop Section:

In the workshop’s second session, we aim to actively involve participants in a collaborative discussion to collect challenges, use cases, and technologies related to Architecting DTOs. We will engage the participants in hands-on activities and case study exploration to gather diverse perspectives and insights to promote the topic and gather feedback to encourage discussions. This will help create a community of interested people. Participants will be divided into smaller groups, each tasked with discussing and identifying the primary challenges, use cases, and technologies related to Architecting DTOs. Each group will then share their findings with the broader audience, leading to a collective discussion.

We follow three lines of discussion throughout the workshop:

• Challenges in Architecting DTOs: Participants will focus on the key lim- itations organizations face when developing and implementing DTOs, including both technical and ethical challenges.
• Use Cases and Applications: Participants will explore real-world sce- narios where DTOs have been successfully implemented or their potential can be realized. Participants will discuss industry-specific use cases, share lessons learned, and highlight innovative applications of DTOs in various sectors.
• Technological Enablers and Innovations: Participants will cover the technologies that drive the success of DTOs and how these technologies can be integrated into DTO architectures to enhance performance, adaptability, and security.

This collective effort will contribute to developing a Research Roadmap with all participants which will serve as a guiding document that outlines key priori- ties, directions, and best practices for advancing the topic of software architec- tures for DTOs.

Submission process

Submissions must follow the LNCS style (https://www.springer.com/gp/computerscience/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). All proposals should be submitted before the submission deadline (see below) using the online submission site: EasyChair ECSA 2025 (Available soon)

• Full papers up to 16 pages, describing a novel idea about software architecture techniques and solutions for or with DTO
• Short Position papers up to 8 pages, describing promising research actions not fully validated
• Industrial papers describing case studies of the application of DTOs inside industries

Papers should be submitted as PDF, following Springer’s LNCS format. Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, the page limitations, or being obviously out of the scope of the workshop, will be rejected without review. For Springer’s LNCS format, see the guidelines provided at Springer’s site

To submit your paper, please use the Easychair link by selecting the entry Workshops - ArchDTO.

The results described in the submitted paper must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be listed at the end of the abstract. The selected papers will be discussed on with the paper reviewers as well as during the program board meeting. As the review process is not blind, please indicate your name and affiliation when you submit.

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