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PACE 2025: Call for Participation

We are pleased to announce the 10th iteration of PACE, the Parameterized Algorithms and Computational Experiments Challenge! The challenges for this year are Dominating Set and Hitting Set. Find the details here.

PACE 2024: Call for Participation

We are pleased to announce the ninth iteration of PACE, the Parameterized Algorithms and Computational Experiments Challenge! The challenge for this year is One-Sided Crossing Minimization. Find the details here.

PACE 2022: Call for Participation

We are pleased to announce the seventh iteration of PACE, the Parameterized Algorithms and Computational Experiments Challenge! The challenge for this year is Directed Feedback Vertex Set. Find the details here.

PACE 2021: Call for Participation

We are pleased to announce the sixth iteration of PACE, the Parameterized Algorithms and Computational Experiments Challenge! The challenge for this year is Cluster Editing. Find the details here.

PACE 2020: Repository with all PACE 2020 instances

We created a repository which contains all our (public and private) instances. Enjoy! Each instance file has comment lines with instance type (e.g. biology, social networks), origin and description. We hope that the repo will be useful for future PACE organizers and for researchers working in algorithm engineering.

PACE 2020: at most three submissions per team

We decided that: 

  1. we allow at most three submissions per team per track
  2. in each track we rank teams (and not submissions) according to the best solver of a team. 
  3. all the rules for submissions apply, in particular each submission should have its public repository and description.
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PACE 2020: both tracks are running at optil.io

We are happy to announce that you can now submit your solutions to optil.io. Let us recall that the final deadline for submission is June, 1. Until the submission deadline, you will be able to test your solution on public instances and see unofficial rankings. Please note that the ranking published at optil.io is only auxiliary. In particular:

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PACE 2020 Call for Participation

We are happy to announce the fifth iteration of PACE, the Parameterized Algorithms and Computational Experiments Challenge. The goal of PACE is to investigate the applicability of algorithmic ideas studied and developed in the subfields of multivariate, fine-grained, parameterized, or fixed-parameter tractable algorithms.

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Deadline extension (solver description). New. June, 3rd (AOE)

Due to problems with the submission system easychair, we extend the deadline until Monday June 3rd, 2019 (AOE). We’ve been informed on May 30th that easychair is experiencing network problems which however should have already beenresolved on May 31st (see below). Nonetheless, due to several requests still reporting problems, we decided to extend the deadline further.

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Optil: Technical issues with submission system

We are currently experiencing some issues with the optil system. The problem was first reported yesterday. According to optil, they ran a system update. We are in contact with the optil team.  Unfortunately, there is a public holiday on May 1st and May 3rd in Poland, so we might get answers not before Monday. 

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PACE 2019 Call for Participation

We are happy to announce the fourth iteration of PACE, the Parameterized Algorithms and Computational Experiments Challenge. The goal of PACE is to investigate the applicability of algorithmic ideas studied and developed in the subfields of multivariate, fine-grained, parameterized, or fixed-parameter tractable algorithms. This year, the challenge consists of two separate tracks.

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PACE 2018 Call for Participation

The PACE 2018 challenge has started! This year there is only one problem, Steiner Tree, and three tracks: two for exact algorithms and one for heuristics. To register your team now and find out all the details of the challenge, visit the challenge page.

PACE 2017 Announcement

We are happy to announce the second iteration of PACE, the Parameterized Algorithms and Computational Experiments Challenge. The goal of PACE is to investigate the applicability of algorithmic ideas studied and developed in the subfields of multivariate, fine-grained, parameterized, or fixed-parameter tractable algorithms. The challenge consists of two separate tracks.

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Results of the First PACE Challenge

The winners of the 1st PACE competition were presented at ALGO 2016 in Aarhus. For those that couldn’t make it to Aarhus: here are the results. We would like to thank all participants for making this 1st edition of PACE an enjoyable and successful one.

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The First PACE Challenge

The goal of the Parameterized Algorithms and Computational Experiments Challenge (PACE) is to investigate the applicability of algorithmic ideas studied and developed in the subfields of multivariate, fine-grained, parameterized, or fixed-parameter tractable algorithms. In particular, it aims to

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