[SMT-COMP] CfP: JSAT Special Issue on SAT 2014 Competitions and Evaluations
Matti Jarvisalo
matti.jarvisalo at cs.helsinki.fi
Sat Aug 30 09:25:41 EDT 2014
**************************** Call for Papers
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** Special Issue on
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** SAT 2014 COMPETITIONS AND EVALUATIONS
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** Journal on Satisfiability, Boolean Modeling and Computation
(JSAT) **
** http://satassociation.org/jsat/
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** ISSN: 1574-0617, published by OIS Press
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** Guest editors: Marijn Heule The University of Texas at Austin,
USA **
** Matti Jarvisalo University of Helsinki, Finland
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IMPORTANT DATES
Submission to the special issue is now open.
Submission deadline: November 14, 2014
First round reviews: January 30, 2015
Revision deadline: March 30, 2015
Final notifications: May 30, 2015
Final versions of accepted articles will be published online
individually
as soon as received by the journal editors. The special issue will
appear
either as part of a regular volume or as a specific volume depending on
the
number of accepted papers.
MOTIVATION
Boolean satisfiability (SAT) and related solver competitions organized
during
the last two decades have been a stimulating force to improve SAT
solvers and
related technologies. These competitions have encouraged developing
novel
algorithms, optimized implementation-level techniques and data
structures to
increase the practical performance and robustness of solvers. The
competition
benchmark suites are commonly used by the research community as the
standard
test set to evaluate progress. Additionally, the competitions provide
large
amounts of openly available data on solver performance on a large
spectrum of
benchmark families that encode important real and artificial
combinatorial
problems.
A lot more can be learned from these solver competitions than merely
awarding
and publishing the best-performing solvers. This special issue provides
a venue
to go beyond this, and welcomes research articles offering in-depth
understanding
of different aspects of the 2014 SAT-related solver competitions,
inviting
submissions describing solver techniques, benchmark families,
competition reports,
and thorough analysis and insights into the data produced by the
competitions.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Manuscripts addressing one or more of the following aspects of 2014
SAT-related
solver competitions are invited.
- Articles (full or system descriptions) presenting details on the
algorithmic
and implementation-level aspects of original solvers with remarkable
performance
during the SAT-related competitions within FLoC Olympic Games 2014:
* SAT Competition,
* Configurable SAT Solver Challenge,
* MaxSAT Evaluation,
* QBF Gallery,
* Satisfiability Modulo Theories Competition,
as well as other FLoC Olympic Games 2014 competitions tightly
connected
with Boolean satisfiability, such as the Hardware Model Checking
Competition.
Remarkable is to be interpreted broadly, from good overall
performance to
very good performance on a specific set of benchmarks.
- Full articles by competition organizers reporting on SAT-related
competitions
within FLoC Olympic Games 2014. The articles should describe the
competition,
its criteria, why it is interesting to the SAT research community,
execution
environment used, analysis of the results (including how they compare
to
previous instantiations, if appropriate), and give a summary of the
main
technical contributions to the field, as well as discussions on
lessons
learned and suggestions for improvements for future competitions.
- Full articles presenting non-trivial in-depth analysis of the data
produced
by SAT-related competitions within FLoC Olympic Games 2014. The
articles
should give novel insights into the competition data, analyzing for
example
the structure of competition benchmarks and their relation to the
effectiveness of different solver techniques in solving the
benchmarks,
scoring methods for ranking solvers, sensitivity of competition
results, etc.
- Full articles on new, relevant benchmark families submitted to the
competitions, and related analysis of the competition benchmarks.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Submissions should be written using the JSAT latex style files. System
description submissions are limited to six pages in the JSAT style.
Submission of manuscripts to the special issue are made via the JSAT
journal
website http://satassociation.org/jsat/
by following the link "INFORMATION -> For Authors".
After registering to the JSAT submission system, start a new
submission,
and select "Special Issue on SAT 2014 Competitions and Evaluations" in
the
Journal Section selection menu in Step 1 of the submission procedure.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be
under review for publication elsewhere.
Please contact the special issue editors by email using
satcompetitions2014 at gmail.com
in case you have any questions regarding the special issue.
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