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QBFEVAL'18 - Competitive Evaluation of QBF Solvers
A joint event with the 21st Int. Conference on Theory and Applications 
of Satisfiability Testing (SAT)
(affiliated with FLoC 2018)
Oxford, UK, July 9 - July 12 2018
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QBFEVAL'18 is the 2018 competitive evaluation of QBF solvers, and the 
thirteenth evaluation of QBF solvers and instances ever. QBFEVAL'18 
awards solvers that stand out as being particularly effective on 
specific categories of QBF instances.

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 
representation & 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/qbfeval18.php

For questions, comments and any other issue regarding QBFEVAL'18, please 
get in touch with the organizers via qbf18 AT qbflib.org.

** Important Dates **

-    Registration close: April 22 (incl. solver description) - EXTENDED
-    Solvers and Benchmarks due: April 25 (for all tracks except 
Hard-Instances Track) - EXTENDED
-    First stage results: May 3
-    Second stage solvers due: May 15 (for all tracks except 
Hard-Instances Track)
-    Hard instances solver due: June 1 (no registration is necessary)
-    Competition Benchmarks available for download: June 14
-    Final results: presented at SAT'18


** Organizing committee **

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

* Judges *
Olaf Beyersdorff, University of Leeds
Christoph Wintersteiger, Microsoft Research Limited

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Luca Pulina, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Computer Science
University of Sassari
Tel. +39 079 228987