Termination Competition

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.

So far, the following competitions have taken place:

• Termination Competition 2004
• Termination Competition 2005
• Termination Competition 2006
• Termination Competition 2007

At the 2007 Workshop on Termination in Paris it was decided to discontinue the annual competitions in favour of an ongoing competition.

The details still have to be worked out and many details will be presented and discussed at the Workshop on Certified Termination in Leipzig.

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

There are no formal bylaws at the moment but the idea is that each research group that is interested in the competition, sends one member into the Committee, and the Committee elects a Chair that mainly acts as a secretary.

Current Votes

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Proposed Votes

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Earlier Votes

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