Fourth (Open) Answer Set Programming Competition - 2013

Current Status

• Oct 8th, 2013. Added some missing data to detailed results

• Oct 5th, 2013. Detailed results available.

• Sep 19th, 2013. Results of the competition are announced! Here are the Announcement Talk Slides. Per benchmark results to be published as soon as possible.

Important Dates

• Problem selection stage:
  • Aug 31th, 2012 - Problem submission deadline.
• Competition stage:

  • Mar 16th, 2013, 23:59 PST - Model & Solve participant submission deadline

  • Mar 16th, 2013, 23:59 PST - System participant submission deadline

  • Mar 17th, 2013 - The Competition runs!

News and updates

• September 6th, 2013 - Full participant packages, featuring binaries, scripts and settings, are available. Check it out at Participants page.

• Aug 7th, 2013. The full instance set is now available

• Apr 9th, 2013: the numbers chosen as starting seed are 15-35-38-44-48, as of the Euromillion Lottery of Tuesday April 9th 2013.

• Mar 2nd, 2013:

  • A small fix to the ASP-Core-2 Validator (see the ASP Standardization page)

• Feb 24th, 2013:

  • Added some technical details to the Instance Selection and Scoring document (v2.2)

  • Published instance hash values here.

• Feb 16th, 2013:

  • Participant package instructions available

  • Update to the scoring system document

• Opened the ASP Standardization activity page.

• Dec 6th, 2012 - The ASP-Core-2 validator is available

• Dec 4th, 2012 - Small fixes to ASP-Core-2 Specification

• The Call for participation is out!

• Nov 16th, 2012 - ASP-Core-2 Specification is out!

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

• May 7th, 2012 - Webpage started.

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. The 4th ASP Competition will be held on an extension of ASP-Core called ASP-Core-2.

To have an idea of the type of problems involved and what we measure on competitors, you might want to visit the official problem list and Rules & Scoring system.

Detailed Information

• Call for benchmarks and benchmark Submission procedure

• Call for participation

• Competition Categories

  • The competition features two distinct tracks:

  • Model & Solve Competition

  • System Competition

• Detailed Scoring and Participation Rules

• Participant Submission procedure

• News and Updates

• Tools and Utilities

• Former competitions:

  • Third ASP Competition

  • Second ASP Competition

  • First ASP Competition

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Contacts

• Organizing Committee

• Contact the competition organizers.