VSTTE 2012 Verification Competition starts Tuesday 8 November 2011! Follow the announcements at the competition Web page: https://sites.google.com/site/vstte2012/compet Join the discussion group or subscribe to our mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/vstte-2012-verification-competition vstte-2012-verification-competition+subscribe@googlegroups.com VSTTE 2012 Verification Competition ----------------------------------- A software verification competition is organized on behalf of the VSTTE 2012 conference (https://sites.google.com/site/vstte2012). The purposes of this competition are: to help promote approaches and tools, to provide new verification benchmarks, to stimulate further development of verification techniques, and to have fun. The contest takes place during 48 hours, on 8-10 November 2011, two months prior to the conference. Problems will be put on the website of the conference. Solutions must be sent by email to the competition organizers. Any programming language, specification language, and verification tool is allowed. There will be several independent problems. Each problem is presented as a sequential algorithm, using English or pseudocode, and a list of properties to formally prove about it, also expressed in plain English and standard mathematical notation. Participants have liberty to implement the proposed algorithms in functional, imperative, object-oriented, or any other programming style. Anybody interested can take part in the contest. Team work is allowed, but only teams up to 4 members are eligible for the first prize. Individual participants may belong to several teams. However, the same solution cannot appear in different submissions. The winner is awarded a talk slot at VSTTE 2012, to present any research of his/her choice of interest for the VSTTE community. In particular, a presentation of solutions to the competition problems and/or of the techniques and system used would be appreciated. Tuesday 8 Nov 2011, 15:00 UTC - competition starts Thursday 10 Nov 2011, 15:00 UTC - competition stops Monday 12 Dec 2011 - the winner is notified 28-29 Jan 2012 - results are announced at VSTTE 2012 -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.