Fairness First Design Thinking for Software Architecture

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Iffat Fatima, Markus Funke, Patricia Lago. 2026. Fairness First Design Thinking for Software Architecture. In 2026 IEEE/ACM 48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-SEET ’26), April 12–18, 2026, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ACM.

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@inproceedings{fatima2026fainress,
  title={ Fairness First Design Thinking for Software Architecture},
  author={Iffat Fatima, Markus Funke, Patricia Lago},
  booktitle={2026 IEEE/ACM 48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-SEET ’26)},
  pages={},
  year={2026},
  publisher={ACM}
}

Repository Structure

This is the root directory of the repository. The directory is structured as follows:

edu-guide: Contains the following files:

• lecture-slides.pdf: Overview of the core concepts and lecture material relevant for the assignment.
• usecase-guide.pdf: A worked-out example to help students structuring and describing a use case scenario.
• VPandP_Reference.pdf: Quick reference card summarizing concepts related to architecture viewpoint and architecture perspective.
• perspective-template.pdf: Template for documenting architecture perspective for the assignment.
• solution-template.pdf: Template for assignment solution.
• grading-rubric.pdf: Grading rubric for the assignment.
• assignment-guide.md: Assignment description and reference material.
• course-objective.md: Details of the course objective

raw: Contains the anonymized assignments from students.

extracted-data.xlsx: Contains the data extracted from the raw data.

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