Fourth (Open) Answer Set Programming Competition - 2013

Current Status

• Call for Benchmarks available.

What is the Open ASP Competition?

The Open ASP Competition has two tracks: the Model & Solve Track and the System Track.

• In the Model & Solve Track, a number of problem domain specifications are given, together with a set of instances thereof. All you need to participate is a system able to model using a declarative specification paradigm of any sort, and some manpower for preparing benchmark solutions. Winners are awarded on the basis of their time performance and, for optimization problems, on the basis of the quality of their solutions. Note that we are more interested at comparing systems and their performance on standard problems, rather than measuring the modelling 'trickery' of participants: this is why you will have several months for preparing declarative specifications and your system, so to make affordable the burden of modelling a number of problems, also for small teams. Problem specification can be freely exchanged among participants whenever they use the same input language.

• The System track is reserved to Answer Set Programming systems, able to cope with a fixed problem specification language. In the 3d competition, the standard language was ASP-Core. The 4th ASP Competition will be held on an extension of ASP-Core expected to be released by September 30th 2011.

News and updates

• May 11th, 2012 - Call for Benchmarks available.

• May 7th, 2012 - Webpage started.

Detailed Information

• Call for benchmarks and benchmark Submission procedure

• Competition Categories

  • The competition features two distinct tracks:

  • Model & Solve Competition

  • System Competition

• Detailed Scoring and Participation Rules (Coming, September 2012)

• Participant Submission procedure (Coming, September 2012)

• News and Updates

• Tools and Utilities

• Former competitions:

  • Third ASP Competition

  • Second ASP Competition

  • First ASP Competition

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Important Dates

• Problem selection stage:
  • Aug 30th, 2012 - Problem submission deadline.
• Competition stage:
  • September 15th, 2012 - Call for participants.

  • Mar 1st, 2013 - Model & Solve submission deadline.

  • Mar 1st, 2013 - System submission deadline.

Contacts

• Organizing Committee

• Contact the competition organizers.