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Use when deciding whether a formal-methods / verification project belongs at TACAS (ETAPS) or a sibling like CAV, VMCAI, FMCAD, SPIN, or a journal, AND — distinctively — which of TACAS's four categories (research, case-study, regular tool, tool-demonstration) it fits, plus whether the work is a SV-COMP competition contribution rather than a paper.

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# TACAS Topic Selection

Decide two things before drafting: **is this TACAS**, and **which TACAS category**. TACAS — Tools
and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems — is the ETAPS conference at the
**tool-and-algorithm end of verification**: model checking, program analysis, SMT and decision
procedures, testing and synthesis, and the systems that implement them. Its defining feature versus
its siblings is that a **usable, evaluated tool is a first-class contribution**, backed by a
mandatory artifact. A brilliant idea with no tool and no experiment can still be a research paper,
but a paper that is really a benchmark ranking is a **SV-COMP** contribution, not a TACAS paper.

## First cut: is this TACAS, or a sibling?

TACAS overlaps heavily with the other verification venues, so decide by **emphasis and calendar**,
not by topic alone.
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