[TYPES/announce] ETAPS 2024 Call For Participation

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Registration is open.

Early registration deadline is 6 March 2024.


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                     CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

27th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software
                           ETAPS 2024

            Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, 6-11 April 2024

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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 four annual conferences
accompanied by satellite workshops. ETAPS 2024 is the twenty-seventh
event in the series.


-- Why choose ETAPS? --

  * ETAPS is one of the world's leading fora for research on software
    science, with a history of more than 25 years.
  * The proceedings of ETAPS appear in gold open access, with no article
    processing charge for the authors specifically.
  * All constituent conferences provide artifact evaluation.
  * In addition to the conference, ETAPS also unites the software science
    community with activities such as a blog on software science, a PhD 
    workshop, and sessions on diversity and inclusion.


-- What is new in 2024? --
  * New submission categories at ESOP - "Experience reports" and "Fresh 
    perspectives"
  * Alignment of the artifact evaluation process of the different conferences.



-- MAIN CONFERENCES (8-11 April 2024) --

   * ESOP: European Symposium on Programming
       (PC chair: Stephanie Weirich, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
   * FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
       (PC chairs: Dirk Beyer, LMU Munich, Germany,
                   Ana Cavalcanti, University of York, UK)
   * FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science
       and Computation Structures
       (PC chairs: Naoki Kobayashi, The University of Tokyo, Japan
                   James Worrell, University of Oxford, UK)
   * TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
       (PC chairs: Bernd Finkbeiner, CISPA, Germany,
                   Laura Kovacs, TU Wien, Austria)
       


-- INVITED SPEAKERS --

   * Keynote speakers:
     Lars Birkedal, Aarhus University
     Sandrine Blazy, University of Rennes
     Jerome Leroux, Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique
     Ruzica Piskac, Yale University

   * Tutorial speakers:
     Tamar Sharon, Radboud University
     David Monniaux, Verimag
     

-- IMPORTANT DATES --

* Paper submission: 12 October 2023, 23:59 AoE
* TACAS artifact submission deadline: 9 November 2023
* Rebuttal (ESOP, FoSSaCS, partially TACAS): 5 December - 7 December 2023
* Paper notification: 21 December 2023
* ESOP, FASE, FoSSaCS artifact submission deadline: 4 January 2024
* Artifact notification TACAS: 18 January 2024
* Paper final version: 23 January 2024
* Artifact notification ESOP, FASE, FoSSaCS: 8 February 2024

* Main Conference: 8-11 April 2024   


-- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS --

The four main conferences of ETAPS 2024 solicit contributions of the
following types. All page limits are given **excluding the bibliography**.

  * ESOP: regular research papers of max 25 pp, experience reports of max
    15 pp, and fresh perspectives providing new insights on programming
    languages and systems of max 15 pp.
  * FASE: regular research papers and empirical evaluation papers of
    max 18 pp, new ideas and emerging results (NIER) papers of max 8 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 web pages of the individual conferences.

All accepted papers will appear in Springer 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. We plan ETAPS 2024 as an on-site
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
(use the llncs.cls class) 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.

ESOP, FASE, and TACAS will use double-blind reviewing (in the case of TACAS, 
only for regular research papers). Authors are asked to omit their names and 
institutions; refer to prior work in the third person, just as prior work by
others; not to include acknowledgments that might identify them.

ESOP and FoSSaCS will use an **author rebuttal phase**. TACAS will use
rebuttal for selected submissions (those in the grey zone).


Artifact submission and evaluation

Regular tool paper and tool demonstration paper submissions to TACAS
must be accompanied by an artifact submitted shortly after the paper. The
artifact will be evaluated, and the outcome will be considered in the 
paper's acceptance decision.

For research paper and case study paper submissions, pre-paper-acceptance
submission of an artifact is optional; if an artifact is submitted at this
point, it will be handled as described above.

Alternatively, authors of papers of these categories may submit an artifact
for evaluation after the paper has been accepted. The outcome of the 
artifact evaluation will then not change the paper acceptance decision.

ESOP, FASE, and FoSSaCS will accept artifact submissions; however, 
participation in it is voluntary; the artifact submission deadline is 
after the paper notification deadline. The outcome will not alter the
paper acceptance decision.

For ESOP, artifacts may be submitted with an accompanying short 5 page
experience report (including 1-page bibliography) that will appear in
the conference proceedings.

For specific instructions regarding artifacts, see the web pages of the
individual conferences.


-- 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.


-- AWARDS --

The strongest papers from the four conferences will be nominated for the
ETAPS best paper awards of EAPLS, EASST, and EATCS, and the SCP best tool
paper award.

The ETAPS Test-of-Time Award will be granted, recognizing outstanding 
papers published at ETAPS more than ten years in the past.

The ETAPS Test-of-Time Tool Award acknowledges the importance of reliable and
well-maintained research tools and the significant effort that their creation
and maintenance entails.

The Doctoral Dissertation Award will be granted to promote and recognize
an outstanding dissertation in the research areas covered by the four main
ETAPS conferences.

All nominated papers will be highlighted in the program.


-- SATELLITE EVENTS (6-7 April 2024) --

A number of satellite workshops and other events will take place during
the weekend before the main conferences.


-- CITY AND HOST INSTITUTION --

ETAPS 2024 will take place in Parc Alvisse Hotel 4*, Luxembourg City, 
Luxembourg. Located in a peaceful and green environment on the outskirts
of Luxembourg City, just a 10-minutes drive from the city center and the 
airport, the Parc Hotel Alvisse opens its doors to you on a vast and
refurbished complex for the greatest comfort of its customers. This luxury
hotel also has an indoor swimming pool, a bar/lounge, and a fitness center.


-- ORGANISERS --

Peter Y.A. Ryan, University of Luxembourg
Peter Roenne, CNRS, LORIA, Université de Lorraine
Magali Martin, Event coordinator, University of Luxembourg