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The Termination Competition

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Term Rewriting and Applications (RTA 2007)

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Since 2004, a Termination Competition is organized every year. This competition boosted a lot the development of automatic termination tools, but also the design of new techniques for proving termination. We present the background, results, and conclusions of the three first editions, and discuss perspectives and challenges for the future.

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  1. INRIA Futurs, ProVal, Parc Orsay Université, F-91893,  

    Claude Marché

  2. Lab. de Recherche en Informatique, Univ Paris-Sud, CNRS, Orsay, F-91405,  

    Claude Marché

  3. Department of Computer Science, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Hans Zantema

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Marché, C., Zantema, H. (2007). The Termination Competition. In: Baader, F. (eds) Term Rewriting and Applications. RTA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4533. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73449-9_23

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