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-21 will be held at the 21st International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE-21) on 17th July 2007.

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 organizer is Geoff Sutcliffe, with assistance from Steven Trac. The competition is overseen by a panel of knowledgeable researchers who are not participating in the event. The panel members are Christoph Benzmüller, Alan Bundy, and John Slaney. If you have any questions about the competition, please email the organizers.

Follow these links to:

• Competition Design and Organization
• System Registration
• Systems and Entrants Lists
  • Entrants' System Descriptions
  • Entrants' Sample Solutions
• Proceedings (.pdf)
• Competition results: Division Summary, Full Summary, Detailed Results, Performance Graphs
• 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)
  • Very similar problem lists (.tgz)
  • Unseen problems list
  • The random digits chosen by the panel to seed the problem selection:
    7 ( Christoph Benzmüller), 8 (Alan Bundy), and 4 (John Slaney)
  • Selected problems lists
  • The time limit was 360s
  • Systems' output files from the competition (.tgz)
• Competition Images
  • Photos
  • V for Victory, or V for Vampire?
• Information about previous CASCs