The 1999-Y2K ACM International Collegiate
Programming Contest
Sponsored by IBM
SOUTHEASTERN EUROPEAN REGION
Bucharest, October 23th, 1999
The
Department of Computer Science and Engineering from the “Politehnica”
University of Bucharest had the honour to organise the 1999-2000 ACM
Southeastern European Regional Programming Contest.
There were 42 programming teams registered, from
Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine, and Yugoslavia.
The
first place was awarded to:
Adrian Sandor
Virgil Serbanuta
Traian Serbanuta
Cristian Grozea - coach
from the Bucharest University 1, Romania, with
5 problems solved and a penalty of 909 points.
The second place was awarded to:
Boro Jakimovski
Igor Trajkovski
Zarko Aleksovski
Anastas Misev - coach
from the Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Natural
Science and Mathematics, Macedonia with 3 problems solved and a penalty
of 378 points.
The
third place was awarded to:
Ognyan Kulev
Plamen Tsekov
Preslav Nakov
Stanislav Ovcharov - coach
from the Sofia
University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria, with 3 problems solved and a
penalty of 589 points.
The
fourth, the fifth, and the sixth place were awarded, respectively, to:
POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest, Romania
POLITEHNICA University of Timisoara, Romania
Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria
Teams’
task was to solve 8 problems in 5 hours using C or Pascal programming
languages. There was 1 team with 5 solved problems, 6 teams with 3 solved
problems, 4 teams with 2 solved problems. Most of them solved 1 problem. We
consider that the set of problems was enough difficult.
The
contest computers were IBM-PCs Pentium Celeron, 32 MB RAM, 6.4 GB HDD, linked
by a network and running Windows NT. They were provided by FORTE Computers,
Romania. 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) v6.3, developed at the Computer
Science Department, Sacramento, California State University. The use of PC2
permitted a smooth run of the contest and facilitated the activity of judges
and runners.
The
42 teams totalled a number of 126 students. There were more than 40 staff
members and volunteers who contributed to the organization and run of the
contest.
Each member of the
participating teams received prizes consisting of software kits of Visual Age
for Java, C++, and Introduction to Visual Age for Java & Programming
JavaBean. The first three teams received presents from IBM. All participants
will be offered a free 1 year ACM Student Membership.
Contest Schedule
HOUR : East European Time (GMT+2)
Thursday 21 October: Arrival and Check-in
12:00 - 20:00 Teams arrive and
report to the Site Coordinator
(Building EF, room EF302)
Friday 22 october: Contestants’ Meeting
08:00
- 12:00 Arrival and Check-in (Building R, 2nd floor)
14:00
Opening Ceremony, Senate Hall, Building R
Speakers:
·
Nicolae
Ţăpuş,
Contest Director, Head of the Computer Science and
Engineering Department
·
Gheorghe
Zgură,
Rector of “Politehnica” University of
Bucharest
·
Horia
Gavrilă,
General Secretary of Ministry of National
Education
·
Oana
Petrescu,
·
Florin
Talpeş,
Vice-President of Romanian Association of Software
Enterprises
·
Sergiu
Iliescu,
President of
National Agency for Communications and Informatics
·
Cristian
Giumale
Chief Judge
14:45
- 15:00 Break
15:00
- 16:00 Briefing with faculty advisors, students and volunteers
·
Review the
rules
·
Introduction
to the practice session
16:00
- 19:00 Practice Session
Saturday 23 october Big Day – The contest !
09:00
- 09:30 Check-in at contest site
09:15
- 09:30 Briefing with faculty advisors
10:00 - 15:00 CONTEST
19:00
Award Ceremony – Banquet
09:00
- 13:00 Sightseeing Tour of Bucharest
The contest budget
was raised using funds from IBM. FORTE Computers provided the hardware
infrastructure and technical support. Ministry of National Education through
“Politehnica” University of Bucharest
help us with the accommodation for Romanian Students.
ANIS,Romsys,Oracle, Softwin, Glossy, REL Computers assured the financial
support.
Participation in the contest was free of charge. Also, the
buffets, the banquet, and the tour of Bucharest were free of charge.
Upon
registration, each participant received a contest folder containing: contest
badge, contest rules, contestant's guide for PC2, timetable, and
software kits of Visual Age for Java, C++, and Introduction to Visual Age for
Java & Programming JavaBean.
During
the Award Ceremony, Certificates of Participation or 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 appreciated.
The
day before the Opening Ceremony, IBM Romania organised a press conference
attended by more than 40 journalists from the Romanian mass-media. A lot of
press releases were issued, before and after the contest. Several newspapers
published announcements or presentations of the event. National Romanian TV
transmitted information about contest in the main news program.
The
composition of the Steering Committee was:
·
Nicolae
Ţăpuş,
Contest Director, Head of the Computer Science and
Engineering Department
·
Gheorghe
Zgură,
Rector of “Politehnica” University of
Bucharest
·
Horia
Gavrilă,
General Secretary of Ministry of National
Education
·
Oana
Petrescu,
IBM Romania
·
Florin
Talpeş,
Vice-President of Romanian Association of Software
Enterprises
·
Sergiu
Iliescu,
President of
National Agency for Communications and Informatics
The
composition of the judging staff was:
·
Prof.
Cristian Giumale, Romania, Chief Judge
·
Prof. Lorina
Negreanu, Romania
·
Prof.
Efstathios Zachos, Greece
·
Prof. Dragan
Milicev, Yugoslavia
·
Prof.
Vladimir Mesyura, Ukraine
·
Prof.
Krassimir Manev, Bulgaria
·
Prof.
Mykhaylo Medvedyev, Ukraine
·
Prof. Ozgur
Ulusoy, Turkey
·
Prof.
Stanislas Ovcharov, Bulgaria
·
Prof. Anastas
Misev, Macedonia
We
want to express our thanks to Chief Judge Prof. Cristian Giumale, and to the
members of the Judge Team, who have greatly helped us with their experience in
running the contest.
We
would also like to express our thanks to ACM and to IBM Corporation, FORTE
Computers, to the Romanian Society for Informatics, to the Romanian Chapter
of ACM, to “Politehnica” University, and to the local contributors ANIS,
Romsys, Oracle, Softwin, Glossy, REL Computer for their generous support for
the ACM Southeastern European Regional Programming Contest.
We
want to thank to the network management team leaded by Bogdan Costinescu from
Computer Science and Engineering Department of Politehnica University.
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.
The
next edition of the ACM Southeastern
European Regional Programming Contest will be held at the Computer Science and
Engineering Dept., “POLITEHNICA” University of Bucharest, ROMANIA or in Varna,
Bulgaria.
Prof. Nicolae Tapus
Regional Contest
Director
|
Rank |
Site |
Team |
Solved |
Penalty |
|
1 |
37 |
Bucharest
University, UNIBUC 1 |
5 |
909 |
|
2 |
13 |
Institute of
Informatics, Macedonia |
3 |
378 |
|
3 |
32 |
Sofia University
St.Kliment Ohridski, SU-FMI II |
3 |
589 |
|
4 |
16 |
Politehnica
University of Bucharest, PUB-CS |
3 |
614 |
|
5 |
27 |
Politehnica
University of Timisoara, UPT II |
3 |
666 |
|
6 |
14 |
Sofia University
St.Kliment Ohridski, SU-FMI I |
3 |
668 |
|
7 |
29 |
University of
Belgrade, Fac. of Electrical Engineering, UB FM |
3 |
824 |
|
8 |
23 |
Politehnica
University of Bucharest, PUB II |
2 |
259 |
|
9 |
05 |
Sofia University
St.Kliment Ohridski, SU-FMI III |
2 |
273 |
|
10 |
26 |
ETF Skopje |
2 |
332 |
|
11 |
06 |
Taras Shevcenko
Kiev National University |
2 |
431 |
|
Honorable
mention |
||||
|
12 |
01 |
University
"Dunarea de jos" Galati |
|
|
|
13 |
21 |
Bucharest
University UNIBUC 2 |
|
|
|
14 |
17 |
Vinnitsa State
Technical University |
|
|
|
15 |
25 |
University
Transilvania Brasov |
|
|
|
16 |
22 |
Gh. Asachi
Technical University Iasi |
|
|
|
17 |
19 |
Babes-Bolyai
University Cluj, UBBCLUJ I |
|
|
|
18 |
07 |
Technical
University of Cluj Napoca |
|
|
|
19 |
11 |
Politehnica
University of Timisoara, UPT I |
|
|
|
20 |
03 |
National
Technical University of Athens |
|
|
|
20 |
04 |
University of
Craiova, Computer Department |
|
|
|
20 |
08 |
A.I. Cuza
University, Computer Science Department |
|
|
|
20 |
09 |
University of
Craiova, Faculty of Mathematics Informatics |
|
|
|
20 |
10 |
Bilkent
University |
|
|
|
20 |
12 |
Babes-Bolyai
University, UBB CLUJ II |
|
|
|
20 |
15 |
American
University in Bulgaria |
|
|
|
20 |
18 |
Plovdiv
University |
|
|
|
20 |
20 |
Lucian Blaga
University of Sibiu |
|
|
|
20 |
24 |
University of
Belgrade, Fac. Electrical Engineering |
|
|
|
20 |
28 |
University
"Petroleum Gas" Ploiesti |
|
|
|
20 |
30 |
Ovidius
University of Constanta |
|
|
|
20 |
31 |
Technical
University Varna |
|
|
|
20 |
33 |
Politehnica
University of Bucharest, PUB I |
|
|
|
20 |
34 |
Technical
University of Crete |
|
|
|
20 |
35 |
Petru Maior
University of Targu Mures |
|
|
|
20 |
36 |
Technical
University of Moldova |
|
|
|
20 |
38 |
University
Stefan cel Mare Suceava |
|
|
|
20 |
39 |
University of
the West, Faculty of Mathematics |
|
|