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JOINT CALL FOR PAPERS
22nd European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software ETAPS 2019
Prague, Czech Republic, 6-11 April 2019
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-- ABOUT ETAPS --
ETAPS is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of five main annual conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops. ETAPS 2019 is the twenty-second event in the series.
-- MAIN CONFERENCES (8-11 April) --
* ESOP: European Symposium on Programming (PC chair Luís Caires, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) * FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (PC chairs Reiner Hähnle, Technische Univ Darmstadt, Germany, and Wil van der Aalst, RWTH Aachen University, Germany) * FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (PC chairs Mikolaj Bojanczyk, University of Warsaw, Poland, and Alex Simpson, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) * POST: Principles of Security and Trust (PC chairs Flemming Nielson, Danmarks Tekniske Univ, Denmark, and David Sands, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Sweden) * TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (PC chairs Tomás Vojnar, Brno Univ of Technology, Czech Rep, and Lijun Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
TACAS '19 hosts the 8th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP).
-- INVITED SPEAKERS --
* Unifying speakers: Marscha Chechik (University of Toronto, Canada) Kathleen Fisher (Tufts University, USA) * FoSSaCS invited speaker: Thomas Colcombet (IRIF, France) * TACAS invited speaker: Cormac Flanagan (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA)
-- IMPORTANT DATES
* Abstracts due: 9 November 2018 23:59 AoE * Papers due: 16 November 2018 23:59 AoE * Rebuttal (ESOP, FoSSaCS, POST): 11 January 00:01 AoE - 14 January 2019 23:59 AoE * Notification: 25 January 2019 * Camera-ready versions due: 15 February 2019
-- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS --
ETAPS conferences solicit contributions of two types: research papers and tool demonstration papers. ESOP and FoSSaCS accept only research papers. FASE, POST and TACAS have multiple types of research papers, see below.
All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings and have presentations during the conference.
A condition of submission is that, if the submission is accepted, one of the authors attends the conference to give the presentation.
Submitted papers must be in English presenting original research. They must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere (this does not apply to abstracts). In particular, simultaneous submission of the same contribution to multiple ETAPS conferences is forbidden.
Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science and be submitted electronically in pdf through the EasyChair author interface of the respective conference.
Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be rejected immediately.
FASE and POST use double-blind review.
Like ETAPS 2018, the proceedings of ETAPS 2019 will be published in *gold open access*. The copyright of the papers will remain with the authors. The proceedings will be published in the Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science (ARCoSS) subline of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
The publisher's charges for gold open access will be paid by the conference (funded with the participation fees of all participants). There will be no added cost for authors specifically.
- Research papers
FASE, FoSSaCS and TACAS have a page limit of 15 pp (excluding bibliography) for research papers, whereas POST allows at most 20 pp (excluding bibliography) and ESOP 25 pp (excluding bibliography).
Additional material intended for the referees but not for publication in the final version - for example, details of proofs - may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit. ETAPS referees are at liberty to ignore appendices and papers must be understandable without them.
In addition to regular research papers, TACAS solicits also *case study papers* (with the same page limit as for regular research papers). POST solicits also *systematization of knowledge papers* (with the same page limit as for regular research papers) and *position papers* (max 10 pp, excluding bibliography).
Both TACAS and FASE solicit also *regular tool papers* (at most 15 pp, excluding bibliography).
- Tool demonstration papers
Tool demo papers have a page limit of 6 pp. The individual conferences FASE, POST, TACAS have additional specific requirements on tool demo papers.
ESOP and FoSSaCS do not consider tool demonstration papers.
-- SATELLITE EVENTS (6-7 April) --
A number of satellite workshops will take place before the main conferences: BEHAPI, CREST, DICE-FOPARA, GaLoP, HCVS, HSB, InterAVT, LiVe, MeTRiD, PERR, PLACES, QAPL, SPIoT, SynCoP, VerifyThis.
-- HOST INSTITUTION --
ETAPS 2019 is hosted by the School of Computer Science of the Charles University in Prague, the beautiful capital of the Czech Republic.
-- ORGANIZERS
Jan Kofron and Jan Vitek (general chairs), Barbora Buhnova, Milan Ceska, Ryan Culpepper, Vojtech Horky, Paley Li, Petr Maj, Artem Pelenitsyn, David Safranek
-- FURTHER INFORMATION --
Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at jan.kofron@d3s.mff.cuni.cz and j.vitek@neu.edu.