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to spur the development of tools and new termination techniques.
 
to spur the development of tools and new termination techniques.
  
The upcoming Termination Competitions are scheduled for
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Upcoming events:
* [http://termcomp.uibk.ac.at/status/rules.html Termination Competition 2009 (December)]
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* Termination Competition 2009 (December) [http://lists.lri.fr/pipermail/termtools/2009-November/000778.html Announcement], [http://termcomp.uibk.ac.at/status/rules.html Web site].
 
* [[Termination_Competition_2010|Termination Competition 2010 (July)]]
 
* [[Termination_Competition_2010|Termination Competition 2010 (July)]]
  

Revision as of 14:27, 27 November 2009

Annual International Termination Competition

During the 90's a number of new, powerful termination methods was developed. Thus, at the the beginning of the millennium many research groups started to develop tools for fully-automated termination analysis.

After a tool demonstration at the 2003 Workshop on Termination in Valencia, the community decided to install an annual termination competition to spur the development of tools and new termination techniques.

Upcoming events:

Competition Categories

Currently, the competition features the following categories:

Planned extensions:

Termination Problems Data Base

The Termination Problems Data Base collects all the problems used in the competitions.

History of Termination Competitions

So far, the following competitions have taken place:

Discussion is open and primarily happens on the termtools mailing list. Decisions will be made by votes among the Termination Competition Steering Committee.