The CADE conferences are the major forum for the presentation of new research in all aspects of automated deduction. In order to stimulate ATP research and system development, and to expose ATP systems within and beyond the ATP community, the CADE ATP System Competition (CASC) is held at each CADE conference. CASC-J2 will be held at the 2nd International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR, which incorporates CADE), on 6th July 2004.

CASC evaluates the performance of sound, fully automatic, classical 1st order ATP systems. The evaluation is in terms of:

• the number of problems solved, and
• the number of problems solved with a solution output, and
• the average runtime for problems solved;

• 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 is overseen by a panel of knowledgeable researchers who are not participating in the event. The panel members are Alan Bundy, Uli Furbach, and Jeff Pelletier. If you have any questions about the competition, please email the organizers.

Follow these links to:

• Competition Design and Organization
• System Registration and CASC Registration
• Systems and Entrants Lists
  • Entrants' System Descriptions
  • Entrants' Sample Solutions
• Competition results: Division Summary, Full Summary, Detailed Results, Performance Graphs
  Demonstration division: Darwin Results, Octopus Results
• T-shirt design
• Competition Archive
  • System Information
  • Systems' sources and executables (.tgz)
  • Soundness testing problems
  • Eligible problems lists
  • Eligible problem files, precisely as used in the competition (.tgz)
    After the competition it was noted that some FOF problems had (due to a bug) been incorrectly classified as having no equality. Thus these FEQ problems do not have the equality axioms removed.
  • Very similar problem lists (.tgz)
  • Unseen problems list
  • The random digits chosen by the panel to seed the problem selection:
    6 (Jeff Pelletier), 8 (Toby Walsh, standing in for Alan Bundy), 0 (Uli Furbach).
  • Selected problems lists
  • The time limit was 600s
  • Systems' output files from the competition (.tgz)
• Competition Images
  • CASC dinner
• Information about previous CASCs