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The Parameterized Algorithms and Computational Experiments Challenge (PACE) was conceived in Fall 2015 to deepen the relationship between parameterized algorithms and practice. Topics from multivariate algorithms, exact algorithms, fine-grained complexity, and related fields are in scope.
PACE aims to:
- Bridge the divide between the theory of algorithm design and analysis, and the practice of algorithm engineering
- Inspire new theoretical developments
- Investigate in how far theoretical algorithms from parameterized complexity and related fields are competitive in practice
- Produce universally accessible libraries of implementations and repositories of benchmark instances
- Encourage the dissemination of these findings in scientific papers
- (since 2023) Max Bannach (European Space Agency)
- (since 2023) Sebastian Berndt (Universität zu Lübeck)
- (since 2016) Holger Dell (Goethe University Frankfurt and IT University of Copenhagen)
- (since 2016) Bart M. P. Jansen (chair) (Eindhoven University of Technology)
- (since 2024) Philipp Kindermann (Universität Trier)
- (since 2022) Christian Schulz (Universität Heidelberg)
- (since 2026) Sebastian Siebertz (Universität Bremen)
- (since 2024) Soeren Terziadis (TU Munich)
- (2021-2026) André Nichterlein (Technical University of Berlin)
- (2020-2024) Łukasz Kowalik (University of Warsaw)
- (2020-2024) Manuel Sorge (Technische Universität Wien)
- (2021-2023) Marcin Pilipczuk (University of Warsaw)
- (2020-2023) Johannes Fichte (Technische Universität Dresden)
- (2020-2023) Markus Hecher (Technische Universität Wien)
- (2017-2021) Édouard Bonnet (LIP, ENS Lyon)
- (2017-2020) Florian Sikora (LAMSADE, Université Paris Dauphine)
- (2016-2020) Petteri Kaski (Aalto University)
- (2016-2020) Christian Komusiewicz (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
- (2016-2019) Frances Rosamond (University of Bergen)
- (2016-2019) Thore Husfeldt (IT University of Copenhagen and Lund University)
PACE is supported by the NWO Gravitation project ‘NETWORKS’.
- In 2023, the International Competition on Graph Counting Algorithms featured the problem of counting paths of a given length.
- Martin Josef Geiger keeps a nice list of various other computational challenges out there.