Termination Competition 2015

In 2015, the Termination Competition will be affiliated with CADE-25.

Dates

preliminary:

• registration of tools: July 1
• updates of registered tools, submission of problems: July 15

fixed:

• competition runs: August 5 and 6 (during CADE)

Competition Categories and Awards

The competition contains several categories from the areas of

• termination of term rewriting (all categories with HO/FO-TRSs, with- or without strategies)
• complexity analysis of term rewriting (all complexity categories)
• termination of programming languages (Logic Programming, Haskell, Java, C, ...)

Competition Procedure

All participants in the same category will be run on a subset of the existing problems of this category. The number of problems used in the competition is not fixed and will depend on the number of existing problems. The problem selection algorithm will be the same as in previous years Termination_Competition_Problem_Selection_Algorithm There might be modifications of the rules suggested by the organizer and decided by the SC.

The wall-clock timeout will be 60 (up to 300) seconds, and 4 cores will be available (if a tool wants to use concurrent execution).

The tools will be started in their directory and obtain

• the problem file name on the command line,
• and extra info from environment variables, cf. Termination Competition 2014 technical details

The tools are expected to give an answer (YES, NO, MAYBE) in the first line on stdout, followed by a proof in ASCII, HTML, or CPF format. Exceptions to these rules are the certified (see also the CPF-website) and complexity categories. See all existing categories for more details.

For those problems where a correct answer is (partially) known, any contradictory answer will be penalized with a high negative score. Moreover, those buggy systems may have the opportunity to provide a corrected version that will be run again after the end of the live execution (displaying the new results afterwards, but out of competition).

For those categories devoted to prove only termination or non-termination, the score of a tool is the number of non-contradictory answers minus the given penalization (if any).

Committees

Steering Committee

• Jürgen Giesl, RWTH Aachen, Germany
• Frederic Mesnard, Université de la Réunion, France
• Albert Rubio (chair), UPC Barcelona, Spain
• Rene Thiemann, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
• Johannes Waldmann, HTWK Leipzig, Germany

Organizing Commmittee

• Johannes Waldmann, HTWK Leipzig, Germany

Registration

Participants must register

• on Starexec (so you can upload and test your solver): enter your data at StarExecRegistration, indicating the competition categories where they plan to enter tools and problems, and then upload their contributions to StarExec

• *and* with the Termination Competition Organizer (so I known what solver/configuration to use). Details will be announced here: Termination Competition 2015 Registration

Note: if I (J. Waldmann) don't know you ("knowing" is roughly symmetrical), then I will ask you to specify: what termination tool you're working on, what competition categories you plan to take part in, your affiliation (in case you're a student, also the name of your advisor/research group leader). The email address you give in the registration should be your institutional one.

We recommend to register early. After the deadline, access to StarExec might be restricted. We need time to prepare the competition, and other competitions may be running in parallel.

It is highly recommended that participants also subscribe to the termtools mailing list, because that is where announcements will be made, and where discussion takes place.

StarExec Wiki

Lots of useful information about StarExec is available here.

Technical Detail

The competition will be running on StarExec - a cross-community solver (tool) execution and benchmark (problem) library service under joint development (since 2012) at the University of Iowa and the University of Miami.

Competition data will be presented via star-exec-presenter - developed and running at HTWK Leipzig.

Technical details about the execution platform (as of 2014) can be found here.

Changes with respect to 2014

Note: these lists are preliminary, and not officially binding.

Proposed changes:

Adoptend changes:

Contact

To contact the steering committee of the termination competition, send an email to terminationcompetitionsc<at>lists.rwth-aachen.de.

The competition organizers can be reached at johannes.waldmann<at>htwk-leipzig.de