ETAPS 2012 - ETAPS 2012 : The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software

Tallinn, Estonia, 24 March - 1 April 2012

The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (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 (CC, ESOP, FASE, FOSSACS, and TACAS) accompanied by satellite workshops and other events. The fifteenth edition, ETAPS 2012, will take place in Tallinn, Estonia.

Tallinn is the capital city of Estonia. It is famous for its picturesque medieval Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage site. This year 2011, Tallinn, together with Turku in Finland, is the European capital of culture (Tallinn 2011, Turku 2011).

ETAPS conferences accept two types of contributions: research papers and tool demonstration papers. Both types 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 They must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. In particular, simultaneous submission of the same contribution to multiple ETAPS conferences is forbidden. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF (preferably) or PS (using Type 1 fonts). The proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Final papers will be in the format specified by Springer-Verlag at the URL: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html .

It is recommended that submissions adhere to the specified format and length. Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected immediately.

Research Papers

Different ETAPS conferences will have different page limits. Specifically, FASE, FOSSACS and TACAS will have a page limit of 15 pages, whereas CC and ESOP will have a page limit of 20 pages. Additional material intended for the referee but not for publication in the final version - for example details of proofs - may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit.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.

Tool Demonstration Papers

Submissions should consist of two parts:

The first part, at most four pages, should describe the tool presented Please include the URL of the tool (if available) and provide information that illustrates the maturity and robustness of the tool (this part will be included in the proceedings).

The second part, at most six pages, should explain how the demonstration will be carried out and what it will show, including screen dumps and examples. (This part will be not be included in the proceedings, but will be evaluated.)

Please note that FOSSACS does not accept tool demonstration papers.

Important Dates

7 October 2011 (2359 Apria, Samoa time): Submission deadline for abstracts (strict)
14 October 2011 (2359 Apia, Samoa time): Submission deadline for full papers (strict)
16 December 2011: Notification of acceptance
6 January 2012: Camera-ready versions due