Created in 2011, the Model Checking Contest (MCC) is an annual competition dedicated to provide a fair evaluation of software tools that verify concurrent systems using state-space exploration techniques and model checking. This article presents the principles and results of the 2017 edition of the MCC, which took place along with the Petri Net and ACSD joint conferences in Zaragoza, Spain. 1 Goals and Scope of the Model Checking Contest The Model Checking Contest (MCC) is part of the growing trend of scientific contests, among which one can also mention: the SAT 1 and the SMT 2 competitions, the Hardware Model Checking Competition 3 , the Rigorous Examination of Reactive Systems challenge 4 , the Timing Analysis Contest 5 , and the Competition on Software Verification 6. The overall goal of these contests is to identify the theoretical approaches that
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