The CADE conferences are the major forum for the presentation of new research in all aspects of automated deduction. In order to stimulate ATP system development, and to expose ATP systems to interested researchers, an ATP system competition (CASC-16) was held at CADE-16 on Friday, 9th July, 1999.

CASC-16 evaluated the performance of sound, fully automatic, 1st order ATP systems. The evaluation will was terms of:

• the number of problems solved, and
• the average runtime for successful solutions;

• a bounded number of eligible problems, chosen from the TPTP Problem Library, and
• a specified time limit for each solution attempt.

The competition organizers are Geoff Sutcliffe and Christian Suttner. The competition will was by a panel of knowledgeable researchers who were not participating in the event; the panel members are Alan Bundy, Claude Kirchner, and Frank Pfenning. The competition was run on computers provided by SUN Germany.

Follow these links to:

• Competition Design and Organization
• Registration Form
• Entrants List
  • Entrants' System Descriptions
• Results, Results Summary, Results Graphs, Demonstration Division Results
• T-Shirt Design
• Competition Archive
  
  • General Hardware system information
  • Systems' executables and sources, executables precisely as used in the competition, sources believed to be used to create the executables
  • Soundness testing problems and results (.tar.gz)
  • System Data that affected problem ratings, and hence eligibility
  • Eligible Problems
  • Eligible problem files, precisely as used in the competition (.tar.gz)
  • Very Similar Problems Groups
  • Selected problems lists
  • The time limit was 300s
  • Systems' output files from the competition (.tar.gz)
• Information about CASC-15
• Information about CASC-14
• Information about CASC-13