TACAS 2005
Eleventh International Conference on
TOOLS AND ALGORITHMS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION
AND ANALYSIS OF SYSTEMS
A member conference of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2005)
April 4-8, 2005 Edinburgh, U.K.
TACAS is a forum for researchers, developers and users interested in rigorously based tools for the construction and analysis of systems. The conference serves to bridge the gaps between different communities — including but not limited to those devoted to formal methods, software and hardware verification, static analysis, programming languages, software engineering, real-time systems, and communications protocols — that share common interests in, and techniques for, tool development. In particular, by providing a venue for the discussion of common problems, heuristics, algorithms, data structures and methodologies, TACAS aims to support researchers in their quest to improve the utility, reliability, flexibility and efficiency of tools for building systems.
TACAS is a member conference of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS), which is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to Software Science. ETAPS 2005 is the eigth joint conference in this series. The conference is organized by the University of Edinburgh. The prior conferences have been ETAPS 98 in Lisbon, ETAPS 99 in Amsterdam, ETAPS 2000 in Berlin, ETAPS 2001 in Genova, ETAPS 2002 in Grenoble, ETAPS 2003 in Warsaw, and ETAPS 2004 in Barcelona.
Tool descriptions and case studies with a conceptual message and theoretical papers with a clear link to tool construction are all encouraged. The specific topics covered by the conference include, but are not limited to, the following:
As TACAS addresses a heterogeneous audience, potential authors are strongly encouraged to write about their ideas in general and jargon-independent, rather than application- and domain-specific, terms. Authors reporting on tools or case studies are strongly encouraged to indicate how their experimental results can be reproduced and confirmed independently.
ETAPS 2005 conferences and other satellite events will be held April 2-10, 2005.
As a part of ETAPS, TACAS adheres to ETAPS submission and notification deadlines:
| October 8, 2004 | Strict deadline for submission of abstracts (of research papers and tool demonstration papers) |
| October 15, 2004 | Strict deadline for submission of full versions (of research papers and tool demonstration papers) |
| December 10, 2004 | Notification of authors |
| January 7, 2005 | Camera ready version due |
| April 4-8 2005 | TACAS 2005 Conference |
The above deadlines are STRICT. Making the deadline for submission of abstracts a week early allows the programme committee to start work before full versions are available. Obviously, there is no need to wait with submission of the full version until the final deadline.
Submission of an abstract implies no obligation to submit a full version; abstracts with no corresponding full versions by the final deadline will be treated as withdrawn, but authors are stongly encouraged, in this case, to explicitly withdraw their submission by sending an e-mail to the chairpersons.
As with other ETAPS conferences, TACAS accepts two types of contributions: research papers and tool demonstration papers. Both types of contributions will appear in the proceedings and have oral presentations during the conference.
Please notice that there are two different conference services for submission of papers:
Research papers
Research papers cover one or more of the topics above, including tool development and case studies from a perspective of scientific research. Research papers are evaluated by the TACAS Program Committee. Submitted research papers must:
Submissions deviating from these instructions may be rejected without review. Any questions regarding this policy should be directed to the Program Committee Chairs Lenore Zuck or Nicolas Halbwachs prior to submitting.
Tool demonstration papers
Tool demonstration papers present tools based on aforementioned technologies (e.g., theorem-proving, model-checking, static analysis, or other formal methods) or fall into the above application areas (e.g., system construction and transformation, testing, analysis of real-time and hybrid systems, etc.). Tool demonstration papers are evaluated by the TACAS Tool Chair with the help of the Program Committee. Submitted tool demonstration papers must:
The appendix will not be included in the proceedings, but during the evaluation of the tool demonstration papers it will be equally important as the pages for the proceedings
Submissions deviating from these instructions may be rejected without review. Any questions regarding this policy should be directed to the Tool Chair Andreas Kuehlmann.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (USA)
LSV/CNRS, Cachan (France)
University of Twente (The Netherlands)
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (USA)
University of Glasgow (UK)
University of New York at Stony Brook (USA)
CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau (France)
University of Stuttgart (Germany)
University of Firenze (Italy)
Bell Laboratories, Lisle (USA)
Microsoft Research, Cambridge (UK)
Vérimag/CNRS, Grenoble (France)
Kansas State University (USA)
Imperial College, London (UK)
University of Aarhus, Aarhus (Denmark)
IRISA/INRIA, Rennes (France)
Technische Universität Wien, Vienna (Austria)
Cadence Berkeley Labs, Berkeley (USA)
University of Birmingham, Birmingham (UK)
Aalborg University, Aalborg (Denmark)
INRIA, Montbonnot (France)
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken (Germany)
Microsoft Research, Redmond (USA)
Intel, Haifa (Israel)
Universität Dortmund, Dortmund (Gremany)
New York University, New York (USA)