2nd International Workshop on Software Architecture and Generative AI (SAGAI), co-located with the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture #ICSA2026
The SAGAI workshop aims to contribute to the establishment of a community of researchers focused on exploring novel ways to use generative AI to improve both development time and runtime aspects of software architectures.
in Workshops by Ivan Compagnucci on February 3, 2026 (edited on February 13, 2026)

We are excited to announce the second edition of the International Workshop on Software Architecture and Generative AI (SAGAI), co-located with the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture #ICSA2026, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

IMPORTANT DATES:
🗓️ Paper Submission Deadline: February 20, 2026 (AoE)
🗓️ Acceptance Notification: March 13, 2026 (AoE)
🌍​ Website: https://www.iese.fraunhofer.de/en/events/sagai.html

TOPICS OF INTEREST:
GenAI@DT
- Approaches to use generative AI in architecture design and evaluation;
- Generative AI to support architecture knowledge management;
- Generative AI to support the elaboration of architecture scenario descriptions;
- Generative AI to support the development of architecture evaluation protocols;
- Integration and interaction of generative AI methods and tools with existing state-of-the-practice tools;
- Improvement of context knowledge used by co-pilots and LLMs in multiple contexts;
- Approaches to use generative AI in the modernization of legacy systems;
- Experiences and ideas on teaching generative AI techniques to software architects;
GenAI@RT
- Architectures to use generative AI at runtime to implement functional requirements;
- Approaches to use generative AI at runtime to address quality requirements;
- Tactics to deal with the non-deterministic character of generative AI to allow for effective and efficient solutions at runtime.

 

TYPE OF CONTRIBUTIONS:

Full papers: complete research approaches and industry experiences (max. 8 pages).
- Short papers: ongoing research initiatives with early results, argued positions, and emerging novel ideas (max. 6 pages).

 

SUBMISSIONS:

Papers must be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/my2/conference?conf=icsa2026) by selecting this workshop as the submission track.

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
- Rodrigo Falcão (Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany)
- Rafael Capilla (Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid, Spain)
- Frank Elberzhager (Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany)
- Pablo Oliveira Antonino (Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany)
- Ivan Compagnucci (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy)