****************************************************************** JOINT CALL FOR PAPERS 23rd European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software ETAPS 2020 Dublin, Ireland, 25-30 April 2020 http://www.etaps.org/2020 ****************************************************************** -- 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 four annual conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops. ETAPS 2020 is the twenty-third event in the series. -- MAIN CONFERENCES (27-30 April) -- * ESOP: European Symposium on Programming (PC chair: Peter Müller, ETH Zürich, Switzerland) * FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (PC chairs: Heike Wehrheim, Universität Paderborn, Germany, and Jordi Cabot, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain) * FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (PC chairs: Barbara König, Univ Duisburg-Essen, Germany, and Jean Goubault-Larrecq, LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay, France) * TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (PC chairs: Armin Biere, Johannes-Kepler-Univ Linz, Austria, and David Parker, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) TACAS '20 will host the 9th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP). POST, which was an ETAPS conference 2012-2019, has been discontinued. -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- * Unifying speakers: Lars Birkedal (Aarhus Universitet, Denmark) Jane Hillston (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) * ESOP invited speaker: Isil Dillig (University of Texas at Austin, USA) * FASE invited speaker: Willem Visser (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) -- IMPORTANT DATES * Papers due: 24 October 2019 23:59 AoE (=GMT-12) * Rebuttal (ESOP, FoSSaCS and, for selected papers, TACAS): 9 December 00:01 AoE - 10 December 23:59 AoE * Notification: 23 December 2019 * Camera-ready versions due: 22 February 2020 -- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS -- The four main conferences of ETAPS 2020 solicit contributions of the following types. All page limits are given **excluding bibliography**. * ESOP: regular research papers of max 25 pp * FASE: regular research papers and empirical evaluation papers of max 18 pp, tool demonstration papers of max 6 pp + mandatory appendix of max 6 pp, * FoSSaCS: regular research papers of max 18 pp * TACAS: regular research papers, case study papers and regular tool papers of max 16 pp, tool demonstration papers of max 6 pp For definitions of the different paper types and specific instructions, where they are present, see the webpages of the individual conferences. All accepted papers will appear in the conference 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. In particular, simultaneous submission of the same contribution to multiple ETAPS conferences is forbidden. Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines of Springer's LNCS 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 will use double-blind reviewing. Authors are asked to omit their names and institutions; refer to own prior work in the third person; not to include acknowledgements that might identify them. Regular tool paper and tool demonstration paper submissions to TACAS must be accompanied by an artifact. The artifact will be evaluated and the outcome will be taken into account in the acceptance decision of the paper. ESOP and FoSSaCS will use an author rebuttal phase. TACAS will have rebuttal for selected papers. -- PUBLICATION The proceedings will be published in the Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science (ARCoSS) subline of Springer's LNCS series. The proceedings volumes will appear in gold open access, so the published versions of all papers will be available for everyone to download from the publisher's website freely, from the date of online publication, perpetually. The copyright of the papers will remain with the authors. -- SATELLITE EVENTS (25-26 April) -- A number of satellite workshops will take place before the main conferences. * 25-26 April (two days): CMCS, GALOP, SynCoP, VerifyThis, VPT, WADT, WRLA * 25 April: CREST, InterAVT, MSFP, TEASE-LP * 26 April: HCVS, MARS, MeTRiD, PLACES, RW -- CITY AND HOST INSTITUTION -- Dublin (Baile Átha Cliath) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Ireland. It is situated on the East coast of Ireland, at the mouth of the River Liffey, at the centre of the Greater Dublin area with 1.9 million inhabitants. Dublin is a historical and contemporary centre for education, the arts, administration and industry. As of 2018 the city was listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) as a global city, with a ranking of Alpha-, which places it among the top thirty cities in the world. ETAPS 2020 is organised by the University of Limerick in cooperation with Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre spanning 9 universities and ITs in Ireland. -- ORGANIZERS -- General chair: Tiziana Margaria (University of Limerick and Lero, Ireland) Workshop chairs: Falk Howar (Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany) and Peter Höfner (Data61, Australia) Practical organization: Easy Conferences -- FURTHER INFORMATION -- Please do not hesitate to contact the general chair at <tiziana.margaria@lero.ie>. 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