CAUTION: The Sender of this email is not from within Dalhousie. ****************************************************************** JOINT CALL FOR PAPERS 24th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software ETAPS 2021 Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 27 March-1 April 2021 http://www.etaps.org/2021 ****************************************************************** We are closely monitoring the development of the COVID-19 pandemic. If it is not viable to hold ETAPS 2021 as a physical conference, we will run it virtually on the same dates. We will decide in January 2021 at the latest. If ETAPS 2021 can go ahead as a physical conference, accepted authors may still present remotely. -- 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 2021 is the twenty-fourth event in the series. -- MAIN CONFERENCES (29 March-1 April) -- * ESOP: European Symposium on Programming (PC chair: Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London, UK) * FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (PC chairs: Esther Guerra, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, and Mariëlle Stoelinga, Univ. Twente, The Netherlands) * FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (PC chairs: Stefan Kiefer, Univ. of Oxford, UK, and Christine Tasson, IRIF, Univ. Paris Diderot, France) * TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (PC chairs: Jan Friso Groote, Techn. Univ. Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg Univ., Denmark) TACAS '21 will host the 10th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP). -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- The invited speakers and tutorialists planned for ETAPS 2020 have been reinvited: * Unifying speakers: Lars Birkedal (Aarhus Universitet, Denmark) Jane Hillston (University of Edinburgh, UK) * ESOP invited speaker: Isil Dillig (University of Texas at Austin, USA) * FASE invited speaker: Willem Visser (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) * Tutorial speakers: Erika Ábrahám (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Madhusudan Parthasararathy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) -- IMPORTANT DATES * Papers due: 15 October 2020 23:59 AoE (=GMT-12) * Rebuttal (ESOP, FoSSaCS and, for selected papers, TACAS): 7 December 00:01 AoE - 9 December 23:59 AoE * Notification: 23 December 2020 * Camera-ready versions due: 22 January 2021 -- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS -- The four main conferences of ETAPS 2021 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. **Remote attendance and presentation will be possible if ETAPS 2021 goes ahead as a physical conference.** 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 (27-28 March) -- A number of satellite workshops will take place before the main conferences. -- CITY AND HOST INSTITUTION -- Luxembourg is the capital of the small European nation of the same name. Built amid deep gorges cut by the Alzette and Pétrusse rivers, it is famed for its ruins of medieval fortifications. The vast Bock Casemates tunnel network encompasses a dungeon, prison and the Archaeological Crypt, considered the city's birthplace. Along ramparts above, the Chemin de la Corniche promenade offers dramatic viewpoints. ETAPS 2021 is organised by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), Université du Luxembourg. -- ORGANIZERS -- General chair: Peter Y. A. Ryan (SnT & Université du Luxembourg) Workshops chair: Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France) Organization chair: Peter Roenne (SnT Luxembourg) Event manager: Magali Martin (SnT Luxembourg) -- FURTHER INFORMATION -- Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at etaps2021 at uni.lu . [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]