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Combinatorial optimization is a well-established area in operations research and computer science. Until recently, its methods have focused on solving problem instances in isolation, ignoring that they often stem from related data…
It is well known that different solution strategies work well for different types of instances of hard combinatorial problems. As a consequence, most solvers for the propositional satisfiability problem (SAT) expose parameters that allow…
We present an approach to constrained Horn clause (CHC) verification combining three techniques: abstract interpretation over a domain of convex polyhedra, specialisation of the constraints in CHCs using abstract interpretation of…
Higher-order constrained Horn clauses (HoCHC) are a semantically-invariant system of higher-order logic modulo theories. With semi-decidable unsolvability over a semi-decidable background theory, HoCHC is suitable for safety verification.…
This report describes the systems submitted to the first and second tracks of the VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge (VoxSRC) 2020, which ranked second in both tracks. Three key points of the system pipeline are explored: (1)…
Competitive programming (CP) contests are often treated as interchangeable proxies for algorithmic skill, yet the extent to which results at lower contest tiers anticipate performance at higher tiers, and how closely any tier resembles the…
For high-assurance software, source-level reasoning is insufficient: we need binary-level guarantees. Despite constrained Horn clause (CHC) solving being one of the most popular forms of automated verification, prior work has not evaluated…
Building on the successes of satisfiability modulo theories (SMT), Bj{\o}rner et al. initiated a research programme advocating Horn constraints as a suitable basis for automatic program verification. The notion of first-order constrained…
This paper provides a historical analysis of the IEEE CEC Single Objective Optimization competition results (2010-2024). We analyze how benchmark functions shaped winning algorithms, identifying the 2014 introduction of dense rotation…
We present a method for verifying properties of time-aware business processes, that is, business process where time constraints on the activities are explicitly taken into account. Business processes are specified using an extension of the…
This report summarizes the 3rd International Verification of Neural Networks Competition (VNN-COMP 2022), held as a part of the 5th Workshop on Formal Methods for ML-Enabled Autonomous Systems (FoMLAS), which was collocated with the 34th…
Collaborative competitions have gained popularity in the scientific and technological fields. These competitions involve defining tasks, selecting evaluation scores, and devising result verification methods. In the standard scenario,…
This volume contains the proceedings of EXPRESS/SOS 2020: the Combined 27th International Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency and the 17th Workshop on Structural Operational Semantics, which was held online, as an affiliated workshop…
Consumer Event-Cause Extraction, the task aimed at extracting the potential causes behind certain events in the text, has gained much attention in recent years due to its wide applications. The ICDM 2020 conference sets up an evaluation…
This is the proceedings of PLACES'10, the 3rd Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software, held in Pathos, Cyprus, on 21st Mach, 2010, co-located with the ETAPS federated conferences. PLACES…
This paper describes the Grid Optimization (GO) Competition Challenge 3, focusing on the problem motivation, formulation, solvers submitted by competition entrants, and analysis of the solutions produced. Funded by DOE/ARPA-E and led by a…
One of the main challenges in software verification is efficient and precise compositional analysis of programs with procedures and loops. Interpolation methods remain one of the most promising techniques for such verification, and are…
We study online competitive algorithms for the \emph{line chasing problem} in Euclidean spaces $\reals^d$, where the input consists of an initial point $P_0$ and a sequence of lines $X_1,X_2,...,X_m$, revealed one at a time. At each step…
We summarize the evaluation of the first Automated Legal Question Answering Competition (ALQAC 2021). The competition this year contains three tasks, which aims at processing the statute law document, which are Legal Text Information…
We recently proposed Acceleration Driven Clause Learning (ADCL), a novel calculus to analyze satisfiability of Constrained Horn Clauses (CHCs). Here, we adapt ADCL to disprove termination of transition systems, and we evaluate its…