The first reactive synthesis competition (SYNTCOMP 2014)

  • Swen Jacobs
  • Roderick Bloem
  • Romain Brenguier
  • Rüdiger Ehlers
  • Timotheus Hell
  • Robert Könighofer
  • Guillermo A. Pérez
  • Jean-François Raskin
  • Leonid Ryzhyk
  • Ocan Sankur
  • Martina Seidl
  • Leander Tentrup
  • Adam Walker
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Abstract

We introduce the reactive synthesis competition (SYNTCOMP), a long-term effort intended to stimulate and guide advances in the design and application of synthesis procedures for reactive systems. The first iteration of SYNTCOMP is based on the controller synthesis problem for finite-state systems and safety specifications. We provide an overview of this problem and existing approaches to solve it, and report on the design and results of the first SYNTCOMP. This includes the definition of the benchmark format, the collection of benchmarks, the rules of the competition, and the five synthesis tools that participated. We present and analyze the results of the competition and draw conclusions on the state of the art. Finally, we give an outlook on future directions of SYNTCOMP.

Keywords

Synthesis Reactive systems Competition Experimental evaluation Benchmarks Safety games 
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Acknowledgments

We thank the anonymous reviewers for their detailed and insightful comments on drafts of this article. We thank Armin Biere for his advice on running a competition, and Ayrat Khalimov for supplying the reference implementation Aisy for the competition. The organization of SYNTCOMP 2014 was supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) through projects RiSE (S11406-N23) and QUAINT (I774-N23), by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the Transregional Collaborative Research Center “Automatic Verification and Analysis of Complex Systems” (SFB/TR 14 AVACS) and through project “Automatic Synthesis of Distributed and Parameterized Systems” (JA 2357/2-1), as well as by the Institutional Strategy of the University of Bremen, funded by the German Excellence Initiative. The development of AbsSynthe was supported by an F.R.S.-FNRS fellowship, and the ERC inVEST (279499) project. The development of Basil was supported by the Institutional Strategy of the University of Bremen, funded by the German Excellence Initiative. The development of \(\texttt {Demiurge}\) was supported by the FWF through projects RiSE (S11406-N23, S11408-N23) and QUAINT (I774-N23). The development of Realizer was supported by the DFG as part of SFB/TR 14 AVACS. The development of Simple BDD Solver was supported by a gift from the Intel Corporation, and NICTA is funded by the Australian Government through the Department of Communications and the Australian Research Council through the ICT Centre of Excellence Program.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Swen Jacobs
    • 1
    • 2
  • Roderick Bloem
    • 1
  • Romain Brenguier
    • 3
  • Rüdiger Ehlers
    • 4
    • 5
  • Timotheus Hell
    • 1
  • Robert Könighofer
    • 1
  • Guillermo A. Pérez
    • 3
  • Jean-François Raskin
    • 3
  • Leonid Ryzhyk
    • 6
    • 7
  • Ocan Sankur
    • 3
    • 8
  • Martina Seidl
    • 9
  • Leander Tentrup
    • 2
  • Adam Walker
    • 6
  1. 1.Graz University of TechnologyGrazAustria
  2. 2.Saarland UniversitySaarbrückenGermany
  3. 3.Université Libre de BruxellesBrusselsBelgium
  4. 4.University of BremenBremenGermany
  5. 5.DFKI GmbHBremenGermany
  6. 6.NICTASydneyAustralia
  7. 7.Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburghUSA
  8. 8.CNRS, IRISARennesFrance
  9. 9.Johannes-Kepler-University LinzLinzAustria

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