ACM
Association for Computing Machinery
Romanian Chapter of the ACM

The 1995-1996 SouthEastern European Regional Contest
of
the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
sponsored by
MICROSOFT

The Romanian Society for Informatics and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest, had the honour to organise the 1995-1996 ACM Eastern European Regional Programming Contest.
A number of 26 programming teams from Bulgaria, Grecia, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Ukraine and Yugoslavia.
The first place was taken by:
Hristo Iankov Bojinov,
Dimitar Tomchev Piskyulev,
Svetoslav Dimitrov Tzvetkov,
from St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Bulgaria, with 6 problems solved and a score of 954 points.
The second place was taken by:
Catalin Voinescu,
Adrian Silvescu,
Laurentiu Barza,
from the Bucharest University, Romania, with 5 problems solved and a score of 733 points.
The third place was taken by:
Darko Marinov,
Ivica Nikolic,
Nikola Bulatovic,
from the Belgrade University, Yugoslavia, with 5 problems solved and a score of 734 points.
The fourth, the fifth and the sixth place were taken, in the same order, by:
St-Petersburg University,
Politechnica University of Timisoara,
Moscow University.
Teams task was to solve 6 problems in 5 hours using C or Pascal programming languages. At the end of the contest, there was only 1 team who solved correctly all the 6 problems, 4 teams with 5 solved problems, 3 teams with 4 solved problems, 2 teams with 3 solved problems, 7 teams with 2 solved problems, 1 team with 1 solved problem and 8 teams with no solved problems.
The contest computers were IBM-PC compatible 486DX-2, linked by a network running Novell Netware 3.11. They were provided by Forte Computers Ltd., Romanian authorised distributor of Microsoft products. The site of the contest was the main hall of the "Rectorat" building, Politehnica University.
The evaluation of the results and scoring was based on the Personal Computer Programming Contest program (PC2) v4.3, developed at the Computer Science Department, California State University. The use of PC2 permitted a smooth run of the contest and facilitated the activity of judges and runners.
The 26 teams totalled a number of 78 member students , among which only two girl students : Ana Lubenova Milanova from the American University in Bulgaria and Castigliana Loredana Campian from the Academy of Economics Studies, Bucharest, and 42 faculty advisors and team coaches. There were more than 80 staff members and volunteers that contributed to the organisation and run of the contest.
Each participating team received prizes consisting of software kits of Visual C++ and Visual Basic. The prizes were offered by Microsoft.
The students participating in the contest received ACM membership application forms which, if filled in and returned to the Contest Registrar, qualified them for a one year ACM student membership, free of charge. ACM Membership application forms were distributed to all participants.

The program of the contest was:

Thursday 2 November: Arrival and Check-in
	8:00 - 22:00 : Teams arrive and report to the Site Co-ordinator

Friday 3 November: Contestant's Meeting
	08:00 - 12:00 :  Arrival and Check-in
	14:00 Opening Ceremony
	14:00 - 14:15  Nicolae Tapus, Contest Director
		Gheorghe Zgura, Rector of  POLITEHNICA University
		Mircea Petrescu, Director of National Informatics Committee
		Marius Guran, Presidential Councillor
		Vlad Tepelea, Vice-president of Romanian ACM Chapter	
	14:15 - 14:30 William Poucher, International Contest Director
	14:30 - 14:45 James Comer, Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honour Society
	14:45 - 15:15 Linus Torvalds, designer of  LINUX operating system
	15:15 - 15:45 Coffee Break
	15:45 - 16:30 Briefing with faculty advisors, students and volunteers
                       Review the rules Introduction to the practice session
       		16:30 - 19:00 Practice Session
       		19:00   Snacks

Saturday 4 November: Contest
       		09:00 - 09:30 Check-in at contest site
       		09:15 - 09:30 Briefing with faculty advisors
		09:30 - 14:30   CONTEST
		14:30 - 16:00 Lunch
       		18:00 - 19:00 Award Ceremony
       		19:00 Banquet

Sunday 5 November:
       		09:00 - 12:00 The tour of Bucharest

The contest budget was raised using funds from the Romanian Society for Informatics, ACM, Politehnica University and local contributors

FORTE COMPUTERS Ltd., AGNOR, OMNILOGIC, SCOP, S&T, RBS, GLOSSY, ALGORITMA, INFOTURISM, INFOTEAM, Editura TEORA, AMERILEX, BUGAS, MASTER COPY).

Participation in the contest was free of charge and so were buffets, banquet and tour of Bucharest.

Upon registration, each participant received a contest folder containing: contest badge, contest rules, contestant's guide for PC2, Certificate of Participation, two sample problem sets, city map, Romania map, timetable, list of local contributors, Politehnica University brochure, Computer Science and Engineering leaflet, ACM membership application form, and brochures about Romania and its customs. During the stay in Bucharest, the team had an associated guide (student volunteer) to show them around.

During the award ceremony Certificates of Participation and of Recognition were given to all participants and volunteers. Everybody seemed very excited about receiving the certificates, especially the volunteers, showing that the ACM idea of offering certificates was very welcomed.

The registration of participants, the printing of contest badges and certificates were done using ACM-CMS, that proved to be a useful tool. It provided also an easy way of printing teams contacts for distribution.

Two press releases were issued: one before and one after the contest. Important Romanian TV channels, as TVR1 and Antena1, attended either the award ceremony or the competition and disseminated the event. Several newspapers published announcements or presentations of the event.

The composition of the Steering Committee was:

Prof. Nicolae Tapus, Contest Director, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department

Prof. William Poucher, General Contest Director

Prof. James Comer, Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honour Society

Linus Torvalds, Designer of LINUX operating system

Prof. Marius Guran, Presidential Councillor

Prof. Gheorghe Zgura, Rector of Politehnica University of Bucharest,

Ddr. Vlad Tepelea, Vice-president of the Romanian Chapter of the ACM,

Prof. Mircea Petrescu, President of National Informatics Committee

The composition of the judging staff was:

Dr. Nikolay Ivanov, Bulgaria, Chief Judge,

Prof. Vladimir Petrukhin, Ukraina

Prof. Nikolay Mansurov, Russia

Prof. Valeriu Iorga, Romania

Prof. Cristian Giumale, Romania

Prof. Valentin Cristea, Romania

Prof. Victor Patriciu, Romania

Prof. Adrian Atanasiu, Romania

We want to express our thanks to our foreign guests, Prof. William Poucher, Prof. James Comer and Chief Judge Dr. Nikolay Ivanov, for their activity and constant help during the contest.

We would like also to express our thanks to the ACM and Microsoft Corporation, the Romanian Society for Informatics, Politehnica University and local contributors for their generous supporting of the ACM Eastern European Regional Programming Contest. And last, but not least, we thank all the volunteers who helped run the contest. Without all these people and organisations, it would have been hardly possible to make this event happen.

It was established that the next edition of the ACM Eastern European Regional Programming Contest will be held in Computer Science and Engineering Dept. , POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest, ROMANIA.

Prof. Nicolae Tapus
ACM Eastern European Regional Programming Contest Director

The Results of ACM Eastern European Regional Programming Contest November the 4-th, 1995 Bucharest, ROMANIA

			

RANK   TEAM NAME	         		     SCOR SOLVED

1      University "St. Kliment Ohridski" of Sofia     954   6
2      University of Bucharest                        733   5
3      University of Belgrade                         734   5
4      St-Petersburg University                       813   5
5      Politehnica University of Timisoara           1306   5
6      Moscow University                              752   4
7      University of Cluj                             779   4
8      Kiev University                               1140   4
9      "Politehnica" University of Bucharest - I      366   3
10     University of Iasi                             523   3
11     National Technical University of Athens        254   2
12     "Politehnica" University of Bucharest - II     292   2
13     Belarus State University                       294   2
14     University of Craiova                          476   2
15     American University of Bulgaria                519   2
16     Technical University of Moldova                530   2
17     State Technical University of Vinnytsia        562   2
18     University of Suceava                          189   1
19     University of Timisoara                          0   0
20     University of Ploiesti                           0   0
21     Kiev Department of Moscow IPT                    0   0
22     A.S.E. Bucharest                                 0   0
23     Technical University of Cluj                     0   0
24     Technical University of Iasi                     0   0
25     Technical University of Varna                    0   0
26     University of Cluj - Economics Faculty           0   0