MODEL CHECKING CONTEST 2020 - (2/2) - CALL FOR TOOLS GOALS
The Model Checking Contest (MCC) is a yearly event that assesses existing verification tools for concurrent systems on a set of models (i.e., benchmarks) proposed by the scientific community. All tools are compared on the same benchmarks and using the same computing platform, so that a fair comparison can be made, contrary to most scientific publications, in which different benchmarks are executed on different platforms. Another goal of the Model Checking Contest is to infer conclusions about the respective efficiency of verification techniques for Petri nets (decision diagrams, partial orders, symmetries, etc.) depending on the particular characteristics of models under analysis. Through the feedback on tools efficiency, we aim at identifying which techniques can best tackle a given class of models. Finally, the Model Checking Contest seeks to be a friendly place where developers meet, exchange, and collaborate to enhance their verification tools. The Model Checking Contest is organized in three steps: - the Call for Models (http://mcc.lip6.fr/cfm.php), - the present Call for Tools (http://mcc.lip6.fr/cft.php), - and the Contest itself. CALL FOR TOOLS For the 2020 edition, we kindly ask the developers of verification tools for concurrent systems to participate in the MCC competition. Each submitted tool will be assessed on both the accumulated collection of MCC models (these are the "known" models, see http://mcc.lip6.fr/models.php) and on the new models selected during the 2020 edition (these are the "surprise" models, see http://mcc.lip6.fr/cfm.php). The benchmarks on which tools will be assessed, are colored Petri nets and/or P/T nets. Some P/T nets are provided with additional information giving a hierarchical decomposition into sequential machines (these models are called Nested-Units Petri nets - see http://mcc.lip6.fr/nupn.php for more information): tools may wish to exploit this information to increase performance and scalability. Each tool may compete in one or more categories of verification tasks, such as reachability analysis, evaluation of CTL formulas, of LTL formulas, etc. Submitted tools must be in binary executables. Each submitted tool will be run by the MCC organizers in a virtual machine (typically configured with up to 4 cores, 16 Gbytes RAM per core, and a time confinement of 30 of 60 minutes per run, i.e., per instance of a model). Last year, more than 1800 days of CPU time have been invested in the MCC competition. The MCC relies on BenchKit (https://github.com/fkordon/BenchKit), a dedicated execution environment for monitoring and collecting data related to the execution of processes. By submitting a tool, you explicitly allow the organizers of the Model Checking Contest to publish to publish on the MCC web site the binary executable of this tool, so that experiments can be reproduced by others after the contest. Detailed information is available from http://mcc.lip6.fr/rules.php. Note: to submit a tool, it is not required to have submitted any model to the MCC Call for Models. However, it is strongly recommended to pre-register your tool using the dedicated form before March 1, 2020: http://mcc.lip6.fr/registration.php. You will then be informed of the way the contest is going. The sooner is the better. IMPORTANT DATES - January 15, 2020: publication of the present Call for Tools. - January 25, 2020: publication of the updated 2020 contest rules at http://mcc.lip6.fr/rules.php. - January 30, 2020: publication of the Tool Submission Kit, which is available from http://mcc.lip6.fr/archives/ToolSubmissionKit.tar.gz. - March 1, 2020: deadline for tool pre-registration. If you plan to submit a tool to the contest, please fill in the pre-registration form available from http://mcc.lip6.fr/registration.php. - April 15, 2020: deadline for tool submission. - May 1, 2020: early feedback to tool submitters, following the preliminary qualification runs, which are performed using a few small instances of the "known" models. - June, 2020: more feedback to tool submitters, following the competition runs. June 23, 2020: official announcement of MCC'2020 within the context of Petri Net 2020 (Paris, France). COMMITTEES General Chairs Didier Buchs - Univ. Geneva, Switzerland Fabrice Kordon - Sorbonne Université/LIP6, France Model Board Hubert Garavel - Inria/LIG, France Lom Messan Hillah - Univ. Paris Nanterre, France Fabrice Kordon - Sorbonne Université, France Formula Board Loïg Jezequel - Univ. Nantes, France Emmanuel Paviot-Adet - Univ. Paris 5, France ---- [[ Petri Nets World: ]] [[ http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/PetriNets/ ]] [[ Mailing list FAQ: ]] [[ http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/PetriNets/pnml/faq.html ]] [[ Post messages/summary of replies: ]] [[ [email protected] ]]
