Welcome to WASA 2026

With the advent of software and electronics, automotive and mobility companies enable innovation to improve safety, security, driver experience, and driving autonomy. Moreover, the complexity and size of software continue to grow with innovations, such as self-learning algorithms and advanced driving and mobility features, which all lead to the ultimate goal of autonomously driving vehicles. Consequently, the increasing use of software introduced a paradigm shift by requiring automotive and mobility companies to develop their systems using architecture and model-based techniques. Although model-based techniques, e.g. MATLAB/Simulink and Stateflow, are being accepted in the automotive industry as standard languages and tools for developing automotive control software, system and software architecture techniques are still far from being widely accepted. This excludes the AUTOSAR standard, which defines the language for designing and configuring automotive software architectures and identifies major architectural components of automotive systems.

This workshop addresses issues related to autonomous systems and their software architecture and engineering techniques, relevant for the industry of autonomous systems. Therefore, to bring together researchers and practitioners in autonomous systems and software architecture and engineering, WASA is being organised with the International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA), the premier international software architecture conference. Our goal is that the workshop will identify new research directions, roadmaps, challenges, and establish long-term collaborations between participants from both academia and industry, even after the workshop.

Call for Papers

The program committee of the 12th WASA edition seeks submissions of original and unpublished high-quality papers describing fundamental and applied research, new methods, approaches, and processes, novel applications, approaches for education and training in automotive system/software architecture, and experience reports on all topics related to software architecture including, but not limited to:

Types of Submissions

Submissions must follow the IEEE Computer Science proceedings format, as workshop proceedings will be published in ICSA 2026 Companion proceedings, and appear in IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

Papers need to be submitted electronically via EasyChair by selecting the WASA track.

Important Dates

Paper submission: Friday, 13 February, 2026
Paper notification: Friday, 13 March, 2026
Camera-ready workshop papers due: Friday, 27 March, 2026
Workshop dates: June 22 or 23, 2026

Program

TBA

Committees

Organizing Committee

Stefan Kugele, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany
Yanja Dajsuren, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Alessio Bucaioni, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden
Jasmin Jahić, University of Cambridge, UK

Program Committee (tentative)

Rasmus Adler, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Klaus Becker, Continental, Germany
Christian Berger, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Sujit Kumar Chakrabarti, IIIT-B (International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore), India
Predrag Filipovikj, Scania, Sweden
Thomas Galla, Elektrobit, Germany
Elena Lisova, VCE, Sweden
Andreas Morgenstern, Mercedes, Germany
Philipp Obergfell, BMW Group, Germany
Aditya A. Paranjape, TCS Research, India
Ramesh S, General Motors, USA
Miroslaw Staron, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Mark van den Brand, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Andreas Vogelsang, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany\

History