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The Third Answer Set Programming Competition is now over: have a look at the 4th ASP Competition site.

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Current Status

Fix to outcomes of problem 22 (Hanoi Towers). Access results section in order to get new data.
Have a look at some shots from LPNMR'11!
The Organizing Committee of the Third Answer Set Programming Competition, held at the Department of Mathematics of University of Calabria, is pleased to herald final results (publicly announced at LPNMR 2011 - Vancouver, BC, Canada). And the winner is... well, have a look at the : System Track Official Results -- Model & Solve Track Official Results.
Competition:
- System Track: over.
- Model & Solve Track: over.

Results: for both System and Model & Solve tracks, outcomes and standings are provided on the overall, per each category, per each benchmark, and even on an instance-by-instance basis.
List of participants, along with detailed info and run packages for the sake of reproducibility.
Problem Suite, featuring the benchmark problems participants compared on. Please find complete descriptions, encodings where available, complete set of instances, and much more.
Official Awards.
Info about the competition set-up:

The preliminary report of the System Track, appeared in the Proceedings of LPNMR'11, is available HERE.
The slides of the talk given at LPNMR 2011 - Vancouver, BC, Canada, are available HERE (PDF file).

The 3rd ASP competition is divided into two main sub-tracks (System Track and Model & Solve Track) and awards:

In both competition tracks, winners in the respective subcategories are awarded:

June 09, 2011 - Fix to outcomes of problem 22 (Hanoi Towers).
May 18, 2011 - Results (announced at LPNMR 2011 - Vancouver, BC, Canada) are available. And the winner is... well, have a look at the : System Track Official Results -- Model & Solve Track Official Results.
May 18, 2011 - Complete list of participants available.
Mar 05, 2011 - Update file and language format specifications. Please have a look at the change log.
Feb 10, 2011. New Deadline extension for the Model & Solve track: March 15th, 2011. Note that the deadline for the System track does not change.
Feb 4th, 2011. Detailed regulations on memory limits in the rules section.
Feb 1st, 2011. Added a clarification regarding randomized systems in the rules section.
Jan 28th, 2011. Added a tool (from KU-Leuven KRR group) for graphically displaying problem solutions, in the Tools & Utilities page.
- Jan 26th, 2011. Modified file and language format specifications. Please have a look at the change log.
Jan 20th, 2011. Shifter tool updated with enable syntax trasformation option (transforms '<>' into '!=', and 'v' into '|')!
Jan 18th, 2011. You can find in the Official Problem Suite the final problem specifications (continously updated). Stay in touch!
Jan 10th, 2011. Modified file and language format specifications. Please have a look at the change log.
January 5th, 2011. Released a preliminary problem list.

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Problem selection stage:
- December 31th, 2010 - Deadline for problem submission
- January 3th, 2011 - Publication of temporary list of selected benchmarks
- January 4-10th, 2011 - Submission of accepted benchmarks in finalized version
- January 10th, 2011 - Publication of the final list of selected problems

NOTES on Dry Runs - Systems already submitted and set up by the date of a Dry Run deadline will be automatically tested on official instances featured by the related track (System/Model&Solve). Any problem on the dry run will be privately reported to competitors. Competitors submissions to related track will be not closed until the given final deadline of the track; systems not submitted within the Dry Run deadline will simply not undergo the dry run itself.