VerifyThis Verification Competition 2016: Call for Challenges
VerifyThis Verification Competition 2016
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PROBLEMS
Competition to be held at ETAPS 2016
http://etaps2016.verifythis.org/
Get involved, even if you cannot participate in the competition: provide a challenge.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Submission deadline: December 4th, 2015
- Competition: April 2-3, 2016
CALL FOR PROBLEMS
To extend the problem pool and tender better to the needs of the participants, we are now soliciting verification problems for the competition (itself introduced below):
- a problem should contain an informal statement of the algorithm to be implemented (optionally with complete or partial pseudocode) and the requirement(s) to be verified
- a problem should be suitable for a 60-90 minute time slot
- submission of reference solutions is strongly encouraged
- problems with an inherent language- or tool-specific bias should be
- clearly identified as such
- problems that contain several subproblems or other means of difficulty
- scaling are especially welcome
- the organizers reserve the right (but no obligation) to use the problems in the competition, either as submitted or with modifications
- submissions from (potential) competition participants are allowed
Problems from previous competitions can be seen at http://www.verifythis.org
Submissions are to be sent per email to etaps2016@verifythis.org by the date indicated above.
PRIZES
The most suitable submission for competition will receive a prize.
ABOUT
VerifyThis 2016 will take place as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2016) on April 2-3, in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. It is the 5th event in the VerifyThis competition series.
The aims of the competition are:
- to bring together those interested in formal verification, and to provide an engaging, hands-on, and fun opportunity for discussion
- to evaluate the usability of logic-based program verification tools in a controlled experiment that could be easily repeated by others.
The competition will offer a number of challenges presented in natural language. Participants have to formalize the requirements, implement a solution, and formally verify the implementation for adherence to the
specification.
There are no restrictions on the programming language and verification technology used. The correctness properties posed in problems will have the input-output behaviour of programs in focus. Solutions will be judged for correctness, completeness and elegance.
Registration details are forthcoming. Informal inquiries are welcome at etaps2016@verifythis.org.
ORGANIZERS
* Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, the Netherlands
* Vladimir Klebanov, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
* Rosemary Monahan, Maynooth University, Ireland
* Peter Muller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
CONTACT
etaps2016@verifythis.org
http://etaps2016.verifythis.org/