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The purpose of WG 2.10 is to further the practice of software architecture by integrating software architecture research and practice.

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• Seventh Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2008), Vancouver, Canada, February 18-22, 2008. (conference Wiki)
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• Upcoming Events in Software Architecture

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• Software Architecture: The 20th Century Collection
• Citation patterns of documents called "software architecture"

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• Software Architecture Portal, website of IFIP Working Group 2.10 on Software Architecture
• SEI Software Architecture Technology Initiative

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• Wikipedia on software architecture

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Stacks: Books, journals, articles, and technical reports

• Software Architecture, 2008. WICSA 2008. Seventh Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on (Proceedings of WICSA 2008).
• Software Architecture, 2007. WICSA '07. The Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on (proceedings of WICSA 2007)
• Software Architecture, 2005. WICSA 2005. 5th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on (Proceedings of WICSA 2005)
• Software Architecture, 2004. WICSA 2004. Proceedings. Fourth Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on (Proceedings of WICSA 2004)
• Software Architecture: System Design, Development and Maintenance, IFIP 17th World Computer Congress - TC2 Stream / 3rd IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA3) (proceedings of WICSA3 / WICSA 2002)
• Software Architecture, 2001. Proceedings. Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on (Proceedings of WICSA 2001)
• WICSA1: First Working IFIP Conference on Software Architecture, 22-24 February 1999, San Antonio, TX, USA. Link needed to on-line proceeedings.

Note: to construct a URL for an individual WICSA paper in one of the IEEExplore conference proceedings above, follow the link to the conference proceedings in IEEExplore, look in the table of contents for the Digital Object Identifier for the paper, and prefix it with http://dx.doi.org, e.g. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WICSA.2005.35

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Past Events

• Sixth Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2007)
  Mumbai, India, January 6 - 9 2007
  Conference closed! but please continue to post any notes and slides you have.

• Fifth Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 5)
  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, November 6-10, 2005
  Conference closed! but please continue to post any notes and slides you have.

• Archive of WICSA Wiki WAN Party, Fourth Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 4), Oslo, Norway, June 12-15, 2004