Welcome from the WEA-IWSECO Chairs

Software ecosystems are becoming increasingly pervasive, leading to new research, management, and engineering challenges. Opening product architectures and platforms for third parties, designing closed innovation networks among partners through APIs and SDKs, coordinating multiple platforms, or participative engineering across organizational borders are all variants of ecosystems that come with their own opportunities and threats at the same time. The 3rd International Workshop on Ecosystem Architectures (WEA 2015) is co-organized with the 7th Workshop on Software Ecosystems (IWSECO 2015). IWSECO and WEA aim to further increase the body of knowledge on software ecosystems by providing a forum to exchange ideas and discuss the most recent innovations, trends and experiences in the field. They aim to build and shape the community of leading practitioners and research experts by providing forums for the exchange of research results and industrial practice in software ecosystems. WEA-IWSECO 2015 is a venue for both practitioners and researchers to discuss problems, solutions and lessons learned related to software development in the context of software ecosystems. The technical program covers a wide range of current research in both, business and social perspective and the technology and architecture perspective of software ecosystems.