[ecoop-info] VerifyThis Verification Competition 2016: Call for Challenges

[Rosemary.Monahan at nuim.ie]

Dear Colleague, 


Please  find below a call for verification challenges for the VerifyThis  Verification Competition to be held at ETAPS, 2 - 3 April 2016.  


Candidate verification challenges should be submitted by December 4th 2015.


Regards,

Rosemary Monahan


On behalf of the VerifyThis Organisers


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VerifyThis Verification Competition 2016


FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PROBLEMS


Competition to be held at ETAPS 2016 


http://etaps2016.verifythis.org/


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Get involved, even if you cannot participate in the competition: provide
a challenge.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: December 4th, 2015
Competition: April 2-3, 2016 

CALL FOR PROBLEMS
To extend the problem pool and tender better to the needs of the
participants, we are now soliciting verification problems for the
competition (itself introduced below):
- a problem should contain an informal statement of the algorithm to be
implemented (optionally with complete or partial pseudocode) and the
requirement(s) to be verified
- a problem should be suitable for a 60-90 minute time slot
- submission of reference solutions is strongly encouraged
- problems with an inherent language- or tool-specific bias should be
clearly identified as such
- problems that contain several subproblems or other means of difficulty
scaling are especially welcome
- the organizers reserve the right (but no obligation) to use the
problems in the competition, either as submitted or with modifications
- submissions from (potential) competition participants are allowed

Problems from previous competitions can be seen at http://www.verifythis.org
Submissions are to be sent per email to etaps2016 at verifythis.org by the
date indicated above.

PRIZES
The most suitable submission for competition will receive a prize.

ABOUT
VerifyThis 2016 will take place as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2016) on April 2-3, in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. It is the 5th event in the VerifyThis competition series.

The aims of the competition are:
- to bring together those interested in formal verification, and to
provide an engaging, hands-on, and fun opportunity for discussion
- to evaluate the usability of logic-based program verification tools in
a controlled experiment that could be easily repeated by others.

The competition will offer a number of challenges presented in natural
language. Participants have to formalize the requirements, implement a
solution, and formally verify the implementation for adherence to the
specification.

There are no restrictions on the programming language and verification
technology used. The correctness properties posed in problems will have
the input-output behaviour of programs in focus. Solutions will be judged
for correctness, completeness and elegance.

Registration details are forthcoming. Informal inquiries are welcome at
etaps2016 at verifythis.org.


ORGANIZERS
* Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, the Netherlands
* Vladimir Klebanov, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
* Rosemary Monahan, Maynooth University, Ireland
* Peter Müller, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

CONTACT
etaps2016 at verifythis.org
http://etaps2016.verifythis.org/