Message from the General Chair and PC Chairs of ICSA 2018

The increasing size of software systems and the emergence of increasingly autonomous systems demands innovative software engineering practices. The way software is being developed and maintained is rapidly changing and must take into account multifaceted constraints like fast-changing and unpredictable markets, complex and changing customer requirements, pressures of shorter time-to-market, and rapidly advancing information technologies, to name just a few of these new aspects. To cope with such constraints, software is increasingly produced according to rapid continuous software engineering development processes. The International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA), is the premier platform for academia and industry to join efforts in addressing these challenges, bringing innovative solutions to the problems we face in the software architecture domain.