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Use when deciding whether a formal-methods project belongs at CAV (Computer Aided Verification) or should be routed to TACAS, FMCAD, VMCAI, LPAR/IJCAR, POPL/PLDI/OOPSLA, or a journal (FMSD/JAR/TOCL), and when choosing the right CAV category — Regular, Short Tool, Short Application, or Industrial Experience & Case Study.

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# CAV Topic Selection

Decide the venue and the category before drafting. CAV — the International Conference on Computer
Aided Verification — is the **flagship** venue for computer-aided formal analysis of hardware and
software systems: model checking, SMT and theorem proving, program analysis and synthesis, and
their tools. Its papers are Springer LNCS chapters read by verification researchers, so reviewers
reward a **durable verification contribution with a stated guarantee**, not a systems demo or an ML
result with a verification label attached.

## Two decisions, not one

At CAV you choose both a **venue** (CAV vs. its siblings) and a **category** (Regular vs. Tool vs.
Application vs. Industrial). Get the venue right first, then the category — a strong tool filed as a
Regular Paper, or a technique squeezed into a 10-page tool paper, wastes the fit.
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