8th Confluence Competition (CoCo 2019) http://project-coco.uibk.ac.at/2019/ ==== Final Call for Tools ============================================ CoCo 2019 will run live during TOOLympics in Prague, Czech Republic, on April 6, as part of TACAS 2019. IMPORTANT DATES * tool registration March 16, 2019 * tool submission March 23, 2019 * secret problem submission March 30, 2019 * competition April 6, 2019 * tool description May 1, 2019 TOOL REGISTRATION Tool registration is done through EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coco2019 Please enter the tool name in the title field, the tool contributors as authors, and the participating categories (choose from COM, CPF-CTRS, CPF-TRS, CTRS, GCR, HRS, INF, NFP, SRS, TRS, UNC, UNR) as well as a link to the website of the tool in the abstract field. TOOL SUBMISSION CoCo 2019 will run live on StarExec (https://www.starexec.org/). Tools will have 60 seconds access to a single node of StarExec for each problem. Submission details are available from the CoCO 2019 website. After the competition, binaries of participating tools will be made available to the community via the CoCoWeb platform. SECRET PROBLEM SUBMISSION Secret problems, which will be selected for the competition, are accepted on March 29 and 30, 2019. Submission details will be announced on the CoCo 2019 website shortly. TOOL DESCRIPTION Tool authors are invited to submit a one-page system description until May 1, 2019. System descriptions will be included in the proceedings of IWC 2019 and typically highlight the distinctive features of the tool. Since IWC takes place after CoCo, authors can reflect on the performance of their tool during CoCo. COCO 2019 PANEL CoCo 2019 is overseen by a panel of knowledgeable experts who are not participating in the competition: * Hubert Garavel INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes * Geoff Sutcliffe University of Miami * Akihisa Yamada NII Tokyo COCO STEERING COMMITTEE * Aart Middeldorp University of Innsbruck (chair) * Julian Nagele Queen Mary University of London * Kiraku Shintani JAIST