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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">(Apologies if you receive this announcement multiple times.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">*** TAP 2013 ***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">*** Abstract submission: January 25, 2013 ***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">*** Paper submission: February 1, 2013 ***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">*** TAP 2013 solicits both full papers and ***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">*** (industrial) experience/tool papers ***
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">*** in combining proofs and (security) testing ***
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TESTS AND PROOFS (TAP 2013)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><a href="http://www.spacios.eu/TAP2013">http://www.spacios.eu/TAP2013</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Budapest, Hungary, June 18-19, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The TAP conference is devoted to the synergy of proofs and tests, to the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">application of techniques from both sides and their combination for the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">advancement of software quality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Testing and proving seem to be contradictory techniques: once you have<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">proved your program to be correct then additional testing seems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">pointless; on the other hand, when such a proof in not feasible, then<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">testing the program seems to be the only option. This view has dominated<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">the research community since the dawn of computer science, and has<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">resulted in distinct communities pursuing the seemingly orthogonal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">research areas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">However, the development of both approaches has lead to the discovery of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">common issues and to the realization of potential synergy. Perhaps, use<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">of model checking in testing was one of the first signs that a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">counterexample to a proof may be interpreted as a test case. Recent<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">breakthroughs in deductive techniques such as satisfiability modulo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">theories, abstract interpretation, and interactive theorem proving, have<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">paved the way for new and practically effective methods of powering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">testing techniques. Moreover, since formal, proof-based verification is<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">costly, testing invariants and background theories can be helpful to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">detect errors early and to improve cost effectiveness. Summing up, in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">the past few years an increasing number of research efforts have<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">encountered the need for combining proofs and tests, dropping earlier<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">dogmatic views of incompatibility and taking instead the best of what<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">each of these software engineering domains has to offer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The TAP conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">working in the converging fields of testing and proving, and will offer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">a generous allocation of papers, panels and informal discussions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Topics of interest cover theory definitions, tool constructions and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">experimentations, and include (other topics related to TAP are welcome):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Bridging the gap between concrete and symbolic techniques, e.g. using<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> proof search in satisfiability modulo theories solvers to enhance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> various testing techniques<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Transfer of concepts from testing to proving (e.g., coverage criteria)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> and from proving to testing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Program proving with the aid of testing techniques<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- New problematics in automated reasoning emerging from specificities of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> test generation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Verification and testing techniques combining proofs and tests<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Generation of test data, oracles, or preambles by deductive techniques<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> such as: theorem proving, model checking, symbolic execution,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> constraint logic programming<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Model-based testing and verification<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Generation of specifications by deduction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Automatic bug finding<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Debugging of programs combining static and dynamic analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Formal frameworks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Tool descriptions and experience reports<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Case studies combining tests and proofs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Domain specific applications of testing and proving to new application<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> domains such as validating security protocols, vulnerability detection<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> of programs, security<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Important Dates:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Abstract submission: January 25, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Paper submission: February 1, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Notification: March 3, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Camera ready version: April 5, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">TAP conference: June 17-21, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Program Chairs:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Margus Veanes (Microsoft Research, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Luca Vigano` (University of Verona, Italy)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Program Committee:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Paul Ammann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Dirk Beyer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Achim D. Brucker<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Robert Clarisò<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Marco Comini<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Catherine Dubois<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Gordon Fraser<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Angelo Gargantini<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Christoph Gladisch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Martin Gogolla<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Arnaud Gotlieb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Wolfgang Grieskamp<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Reiner Hähnle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Bart Jacobs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Thiérry Jeron<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Jacques Julliand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Gregory Kapfhammer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Nikolai Kosmatov<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Victor Kuliamin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Michael Leuschel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Karl Meinke<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Alexandre Petrenko<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Holger Schlingloff<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">T.H. Tse<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Margus Veanes (co-chair)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Luca Viganò (co-chair)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Burkhart Wolff<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Fatiha Zaidi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Submission:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Please submit your papers via easychair
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tap2013">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tap2013</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">TAP 2013 will<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">accept two types of papers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Research papers: full papers with at most 16 pages in LNCS format<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> (pdf), which have to be original, unpublished and not submitted<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Short contributions: work in progress, (industrial) experience<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> reports or tool demonstrations, position statements; an extended<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> abstract with at most 6 pages in LNCS format (pdf) is expected.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Subject to final approval by Springer, accepted papers will be published<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">in the Springer LNCS series and will be available at the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The contents of previous TAP proceedings is available at:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/tap/">http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/tap/</a>
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