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QBFEVAL'17 - Competitive Evaluation of QBF Solvers
Call for Participation

A joint event with SAT 2017 - The 20th International Conference on
Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing,
28 August - 1 September, Melbourne, Australia (2017)

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QBFEVAL'17 will be the 2017 competitive evaluation of QBF solvers, and
the twelfth evaluation of QBF solvers and instances ever. QBFEVAL'17
will award solvers that stand out as being particularly effective on
specific categories of QBF instances. The evaluation will run using
the computing infrastructure made available by StarExec.

We warmly encourage developers of QBF solvers to submit their work,
even at early stages of development, as long as it fulfills some very
simple requirements. We also welcome the submission of QBF formulas to
be used for the evaluation. Researchers thinking about using QBF-based
techniques in their area (e.g., formal verification, planning,
knowledge reasoning) are invited to contribute to the evaluation by
submitting QBF instances of their research problems (see the
requirements for instances). The results of the evaluation will be a
good indicator of the current feasibility of QBF-based approaches and
a stimulus for people working on QBF solvers to further enhance their
tools.

Details about solvers and benchmarks submission, tracks, and related
rules, are available at http://www.qbflib.org/qbfeval17.php

For questions, comments and any other issue regarding QBFEVAL'17,
please get in touch with qbf17@qbflib.org.



Important Dates

Registration open: April 1st 2017
Registration close: May 22nd 2017
Solvers and Benchmarks due: May 30th 2017
Final results: presented at SAT'17


Organizing committee

Organization
Luca Pulina, University of Sassari
Martina Seidl, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz

Judges
Olaf Beyersdorff, University of Leeds
Daniel Le Berre, Université d'Artois
Martin Suda, Technische Universität Wien
Christoph Wintersteiger, Microsoft Research Limited