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tacas-review-process
Use when reasoning about how a TACAS (ETAPS) submission is evaluated, covering the per-category blind model (double-blind research vs single-blind tool/case-study), the single annual PC round with a rebuttal, the parallel mandatory artifact evaluation that feeds tool-paper acceptance, accept/reject decisions, and how TACAS's process differs from CAV's and from a journal's.
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# TACAS Review Process
Model the pipeline before interpreting any single review. TACAS's process has three features that
surprise authors arriving from other venues: reviewing is **blind by category**, the decision for a
**tool paper** depends on a **parallel artifact evaluation**, and the whole thing runs in a **single
annual round** on the ETAPS schedule with a short rebuttal — not a rolling or multi-round journal
cycle.
## Process model
- Submission and review run on **EasyChair** under the ETAPS joint schedule. Reviewing is
**per-category**: **regular research papers are double-blind**; **case-study, regular tool, and
tool-demonstration papers are single-blind**.
- Each paper is read by multiple PC members who weigh, for a research paper, the **soundness and