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Where will TPHOLs'99 be?

As tradition dictates, and as advertised on the TPHOLs history page, the organizing committee of TPHOLs'98 is managing a poll of the community to select the venue for TPHOLs'99. We have now progressed to the phase of the process where bids are in and voting begins.

The Bidders

Exciting bids have come from three very active groups, each suggesting attractive locations for the next TPHOLs. Please peruse their proposals on the web before you vote, to get the best idea of what they plan.

France

Germany

Scotland

Schedule

Votes are now being accepted and will be until June 26. The winner should be announced by July 1.

Voting Procedure

To register a vote, all that is required is an email message addressed to TPHOLs98@cs.anu.edu.au indicating an order of preference for the 3 sites. The subject line should read "TPHOLs99 vote".

As we mentioned in the call for bids, we will use a system of preferential voting, rather than first-past-the-post. The algorithm we advertised we would use was as follows:

  1. Voters will be asked to rank the bids according to their preference (1,2,3 ....).
  2. Each bid which has not been eliminated (see below) gets a vote from each voter who prefers that bid to all others not yet eliminated.
  3. If one site has a majority of votes it is the winner (end of process).
  4. If no site has a majority then the bid with the fewest votes is eliminated. The process resumes at step 1.

Eligible Voters

Anyone who is seriously contemplating attending TPHOLs'99 will be invited to vote. We are specifically soliciting votes from the user-communities for the major higher order logic theorem provers - Coq, Isabelle, HOL, Lego, Nuprl and PVS.


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Author: The TPHOLs'98 Organising Committee
Date Last Modified: Wed 23 Sep 1998
URL: http://cs.anu.edu.au/TPHOLs98/bids99.html