Termination Competition

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Annual International Termination Competition

During the 90's a number of new, powerful termination methods was developed. Thus, at the the beginning of the millennium many research groups started to develop tools for fully-automated termination analysis.

After a tool demonstration at the 2003 Workshop on Termination in Valencia, the community decided to install an annual termination competition to spur the development of tools and new termination techniques.

From 2004 till 2007, the competition organizer was Claude Marché, Paris. From 2008 to 2013 the competition was run by René Thiemann, Innsbruck. Since 2014, the competition organizer is Johannes Waldmann. Jobs are run on the Star Exec platform at U Iowa. Results are aggregated and displayed at HTWK Leipzig.

Upcoming Competitions

The Termination Competition 2016 will be affiliated with WST (Workshop on Termination).

Competition Categories

Currently, the competition features the following categories:

Planned extensions for 2016:


Discussion is open and primarily happens on the termtools mailing list. Decisions will be made by votes among the Termination Competition Steering Committee.

Termination Problems Data Base

The Termination Problems Data Base collects all the problems used in the competitions.

We welcome problem submissions from non-participants.

History of Termination Competitions

The following competitions have taken place: