Artifact Evaluation for TACAS'18

Most artifacts of TACAS'18 have been published and are freely available at figshare.com.

Distinguished Artifact Awards

The artifact evaluation committe wants to congratulate the following winners of the TACAS'18 distinguished artifact award:

We would also like to thank all submitters and reviewers for their great work!

Call for Artifacts

Authors of all accepted research papers, case-study papers, tool papers, and tool-demonstration papers for TACAS 2018 are invited to submit (but are not required to submit) an artifact for evaluation by the artifact evaluation committee (AEC).

An artifact is any additional material (software, data sets, machine-checkable proofs, etc.) that substantiates the claims made in the paper and ideally makes them fully replicable. As an example, a typical artifact for a tool paper would consist of

The AEC will read the accepted paper and evaluate the submitted artifact w.r.t. the following criteria:

Every artifact will be reviewed by at least two AEC members. Authors of artifacts that are accepted by the AEC will receive a badge that can be shown on the title page of the corresponding paper and an extra page for the paper to describe the artifact.

An artifact submission consists of

Guidelines for Artifacts

We expect tool-artifact submissions to package their artifact and write their instructions such that AEC members can evaluate the artifact using the TACAS 2018 Artifact Evaluation Virtual Machine (Arnd Hartmanns and Philipp Wendler. figshare. 2018) for VirtualBox. This machine consists of an installation of Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit with Linux 4.10 and the following additional packages: build-essential (this includes gcc), cmake, clang, mono-complete, openjdk-8-jdk, ruby. Additionally, a 32-bit libc is installed. The password for the user tacasart is tacasart. If the artifact requires additional software or libraries that are not part of the virtual machine, the instructions must include all necessary steps for their installation and setup. Any software that is not already part of the virtual machine must be included in the .zip file. AEC members will not download software or data from external sources, and the artifact must work without a network connection. In case you feel that this VM will not allow an adequate replication of the results in your paper, please contact the AEC co-chairs prior to artifact submission.

It is to the advantage of authors to prepare an artifact that is easy to evaluate by the AEC. Some guidelines:

Permanent Archiving and Public Availability

Members of the AEC will use the submitted artifact for the sole purpose of the artifact evaluation, and delete all associated data after the end of the evaluation process. However, we encourage authors to make their artifact publicly and permanently available. In cooperation with Springer, TACAS offers the possibility to permanently archive accepted artifacts free of charge at a TACAS-specific part of figshare.com. Such archived artifacts will be assigned a DOI and be available publicly under one of these open licenses. As part of the submission, authors indicate the license of the artifact and whether it

  1. will be archived on figshare.com if accepted,
  2. is already permanently archived and available under a DOI (please mention DOI in description),
  3. is or will be archived in a non-permanent way by the authors (e.g. on a personal website, without a DOI), or
  4. will not be openly accessible and archived.

Important Dates

06 January 2018
Extended:
12 January 2018
Deadline for artifact submission, via EasyChair
January 21, 2018Request for clarification: if and only if AEC members encounter technical problems evaluating a particular artifact, authors will be asked to submit clarifying instructions to enable artifact review
January 29, 2018Clarification submission deadline
February 18, 2018Author notification
February 23, 2018Camera-ready versions of ETAPS papers: authors of accepted artifacts include an artifact evaluation badge on the title page of their paper
All deadlines are 23:56 "anywhere on Earth" (= GMT-12).

Artifact Evaluation Co-chairs

Arnd Hartmanns (Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands)
Philipp Wendler (LMU Munich, Germany)

Artifact Evaluation Committee

Pranav Ashok
Maryam Dabaghchian
Daniel Dietsch
Rohit Dureja
Felix Freiberger
Karlheinz Friedberger
Frederik Gossen
Samuel Huang
Antonio Iannopollo
Omar Inverso
Nils Jansen
Sebastiaan Joosten
Eunsuk Kang
Sean Kauffman
Ondrej Lengal
Tobias Meggendorfer
Malte Mues
Chris Novakovic
David Sanán