Preface

摘要

This volume contains the proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2018), held in Madrid, Spain, during September 24-28, 2018. Specifically, these are the proceedings of the main program, i.e., the conference itself. This edition had the special meaning of an anniversary. ECSA 2018 was not only the 12th edition of the full-fledged ECSA conference, it was also the 15th installment in the series if we include the three previous meetings held in the original European workshop (EWSA 2004 to 2006, held in St. Andrews, Pisa, and Nantes). It was also the second time that the conference was held in Spain, and also the second time in Madrid. This was also a commemoration to some extent, as Madrid was also the location of the first ECSA in 2007. Even the current Program Co-chairs shared a close relationship with that edition. Back then, Prof. Cuesta was the Organizing Chair, while Prof. Garlan was one of the keynote speakers-indeed, the first one in the history of ECSA. Since then, the conference has been celebrated in Paphos, Cambridge, Copenhagen, Essen, Helsinki, Montpellier, Vienna, Dubrovnik, Copenhagen again, and Canterbury. This rich tradition will continue next year, when the conference returns to France, for the first time in the historic city of Lille. ECSA is now the center of a complex ecosystem gathering a number of additional meetings around the main conference. These included three specific tracks, namely the industrial track, the posters, tools and demo track, and the Women in Software Architecture (WSA) track, focusing on diversity. It also included the PhD symposium, along with a full set of eight co-celebrated workshops and the innovator bootcamp-three of these were organized for the first time. The contributions of all these meetings are included in the Companion Proceedings, published in the ACM Digital Library.