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From: "Achim D. Brucker" <brucker@spamfence.net>
(Apologies if you receive this announcement multiple times.)

!LNCS publication is confirmed!


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* TAP 2013 *
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* Abstract submission: January 25, 2013 *
* Paper submission: February 1, 2013 *


* TAP 2013 solicits both full papers and *
* (industrial) experience/tool papers *
* in combining proofs and (security) testing *


CALL FOR PAPERS

7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TESTS AND PROOFS (TAP 2013)
http://www.spacios.eu/TAP2013

Budapest, Hungary, June 18-19, 2013

The TAP conference is devoted to the synergy of proofs and tests, to the
application of techniques from both sides and their combination for the
advancement of software quality.
Testing and proving seem to be contradictory techniques: once you have
proved your program to be correct then additional testing seems
pointless; on the other hand, when such a proof in not feasible, then
testing the program seems to be the only option. This view has dominated
the research community since the dawn of computer science, and has
resulted in distinct communities pursuing the seemingly orthogonal
research areas.

However, the development of both approaches has lead to the discovery of
common issues and to the realization of potential synergy. Perhaps, use
of model checking in testing was one of the first signs that a
counterexample to a proof may be interpreted as a test case. Recent
breakthroughs in deductive techniques such as satisfiability modulo
theories, abstract interpretation, and interactive theorem proving, have
paved the way for new and practically effective methods of powering
testing techniques. Moreover, since formal, proof-based verification is
costly, testing invariants and background theories can be helpful to
detect errors early and to improve cost effectiveness. Summing up, in
the past few years an increasing number of research efforts have
encountered the need for combining proofs and tests, dropping earlier
dogmatic views of incompatibility and taking instead the best of what
each of these software engineering domains has to offer.

The TAP conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners
working in the converging fields of testing and proving, and will offer
a generous allocation of papers, panels and informal discussions.

Topics of interest cover theory definitions, tool constructions and
experimentations, and include (other topics related to TAP are welcome):

Important Dates:
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Abstract submission: January 25, 2013
Paper submission: February 1, 2013
Notification: March 3, 2013
Camera ready version: April 5, 2013
TAP conference: June 17-21, 2013

Program Chairs:
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Margus Veanes (Microsoft Research, USA)
Luca Vigano` (University of Verona, Italy)

Program Committee:
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Paul Ammann
Dirk Beyer
Achim D. Brucker
Robert Clarisò
Marco Comini
Catherine Dubois
Juhan Ernits
Gordon Fraser
Angelo Gargantini
Christoph Gladisch
Martin Gogolla
Arnaud Gotlieb
Wolfgang Grieskamp
Reiner Hähnle
Bart Jacobs
Thiérry Jeron
Jacques Julliand
Gregory Kapfhammer
Nikolai Kosmatov
Victor Kuliamin
Michael Leuschel
Karl Meinke
Alexandre Petrenko
Holger Schlingloff
T.H. Tse
Margus Veanes (co-chair)
Luca Viganò (co-chair)
Burkhart Wolff
Fatiha Zaidi

Submission:
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Please submit your papers via easychair
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tap2013

TAP 2013 will
accept two types of papers:

Accepted papers will be published in the Springer LNCS series
and will be available at the conference.

The contents of previous TAP proceedings is available at:
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/tap/


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