Third Answer Set Programming Competition - 2011

The Third Answer Set Programming Competition is now open and in the Call for Participation stage. The call for benchmarks is now closed.

Important dates can be found here. Find the Call for Participation here.

News and updates

. Jan 10th, 2010. Modified file and language format specifications. Please have a look at the change log.
January 5th, 2011. Released a preliminary problem list.
January 2nd, 2011. Participant submission is now open according to the participant submission procedure.
January 1st, 2011. Call for benchmark problems is now closed. The preliminary problem list is going to be notified soon.
December 27th. Deadline for problems submission is postponed to December, 31th.
December 19th. An Integrated Development Environment for developing ASP programs is now available, see Tools and Utilities section.
December 18th. The 'shifter' tool is available in the Tools and Utilities section.
December 11th. Parsers for ASP-RfC and ASP-Core format (System competition only) available in the Tools and Utilities section.
December 7th, 2010. Modified file and language format specifications. Please have a look at the change log.
December 6th, 2010. Added a few clarifications to Participation rules.
December 1st, 2010. The participant submission procedure is now available.
Released a few encoding examples written in ASP-Core and ASP-RfC.

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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
Competition stage:
- February 4th, 2011 - Deadline for Systems submission
- February 5-25th, 2011 - Competition stage
- May 16th 2011 - Announcement of results and awards at LPNMR 2011 - Vancouver, BC, Canada.