[Termtools] Termination Competition 2016: Call for Participation

[Juergen Giesl]

*Termination and Complexity Competition 2016*
September 5 or 6

http://www.termination-portal.org/wiki/Termination_and_Complexity_Competition_2016


*Call for Participation*

In the last decade, many research groups developed tools for fully
automated termination and complexity analysis.

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

The termination and complexity competition focuses on automated termination
and complexity analysis for all kinds of programming paradigms,
including categories
for term rewriting, imperative programming, logic programming, and functional
programming. In all categories, we also welcome the participation of tools
providing certified proofs. The goal of the termination and complexity
competition
is to demonstrate the power of the leading tools in each of these
areas.

The competition will be part of the 15th International Workshop on
Termination (WST 2016) (http://cl-informatik.uibk.ac.at/events/wst-2016/)
and it will take place "live" during the workshop. Participants may give a
short presentation of their tool during the competition session at the
workshop. The competition will be run on the StarExec platform (
http://www.starexec.org/).

In every category, all participating tools of that category are run on
a randomly
selected subset of the available problems. A category is only run if there
are at least 2 participants and at least 40 examples for this category in the
underlying termination problem data base.

We strongly encourage all developers of termination and complexity
analysis tools
to participate in the competition.

If there is no category that is convenient for your tool, you can contact
the organizers, since other categories can be considered as well if
enough participants
are guaranteed.

We also encourage the submission of termination and complexity
problems, especially
problems that come from applications.

For further information, we refer to the website of the termination
and complexity
competition:
http://www.termination-portal.org/wiki/Termination_and_Complexity_Competition_2016

*Important dates*

   - Tool Registration: July 31, 2016
   - Problem Submission: August 14, 2016
   - Updates of Registered Tools: August 21, 2016
   - Competition: September 5-6, 2016
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