[apologies for any cross-posting] ======================================================================== ================================================================== 5th Answer Set Programming Competition 2014 Call for Participant Systems Aalto University, University of Calabria, University of Genova Spring/Summer 2014 http://aspcomp2014.mat.unical.it/ aspcomp2014@mat.unical.it ================================================================== Special edition of the ASP competition series -system track- part of the Olympic Games of the Vienna Summer of Logic 2014 == Important Dates == * March 1st, 2014 : Participant registration opens * March 31st, 2014: The competition starts * July 22nd, 2014 : Awards are presented at FLoC ======================================================================== Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-established paradigm of declarative programming with close relationship to other declarative modeling paradigms and languages, such as SAT Modulo Theories, Constraint Handling Rules, FO(.), PDDL, CASC, and many others. The ASP Competition is usually a biannual event for evaluating declarative knowledge representation systems on hard and demanding AI problems. Past ASP Competition editions were held at the University of Potsdam (Germany) in 2007, the University of Leuven (Belgium) in 2009, the University of Calabria (Italy) in 2011 and the Vienna University of Technology (Austria) in 2013. In order to join the Vienna Summer of Logic, which is expected to be the largest event in the history of logic, we this year depart from the "usual" timeline, and the 5th ASP Competition will be run in the first half of 2014 jointly at Aalto University (Finland), the University of Calabria (Italy) and the University of Genova (Italy). Another reason for having an event only one year after the 4th ASP Competition is that in 2013 the new ASP-Core-2 language was introduced, but at that time it was not fully supported by most participant solvers, and/or the submitters did not have sufficient time to support new language features in a completely satisfactory way. Thus, an early event can be an opportunity to push the usage of the new standard, and draw a more complete picture about the approaches that can efficiently solve problems with various features. == Call for Participant Systems == Participants of the Answer Set Programming Competition will compete on a selected collection of benchmark problems, taken from a variety of benchmark problem domains as well as real-world applications. These include, but are not limited to: * Classic and application-oriented graph problems * Scheduling, Timetabling, and other resource allocation problems * Sequential and Temporal Planning * Combinatorial Optimization problems * Deductive Database tasks on large data-sets * Puzzles and Combinatorics * Ontology reasoning * Automated Theorem Proving and Model Checking * Constraint Programming problems * Other AI problems The competition consists of a System Track (as called in past competitions), which compares dedicated solvers on ASP benchmarks. Participants compete with solving systems for the ASP-Core-2 language. Some more details are given in the following: - The benchmark domains are taken from past editions. - Systems of the 2013 edition will be considered. (Developers will have the chance of submitting up-to-date versions of their solvers.) - Submissions of new solvers are encouraged. The competition will include sub-tracks not only based on "complexity" of problems (as in past events), but also considering language features. Our aim is to clearly indicate what (combinations of) techniques work for a particular (set of) feature(s), and also widening the participation to teams that cannot (yet) support the full standard. We welcome the submission of parallel and portfolio systems exploiting multiple cores or multiple algorithms for solving the given instances. These solvers will have dedicated tracks, assuming a sufficient number of submissions in each track. Of course, we also welcome the submission of any kind of solvers, e.g., SAT solvers, SMT solvers, CP systems, FOL theorem provers, Description Logics reasoners, Planning reasoners, or any other that can be adapted/applied to the evaluation of logic programs encoded in ASP-Core-2. == Important Dates == * March 1st, 2014 : Participant registration opens * March 31st, 2014: The competition starts * July 22nd, 2014 : Awards are presented at FLoC For further information and submission instructions please visit the competition web site http://aspcomp2014.mat.unical.it/ or contact us by email: aspcomp2014@mat.unical.it