The 2003-2004 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
Sponsored by IBM
SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE REGION
Bucharest October 18th, 2003
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering from the POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest had the honor to organize the 2003-2004 ACM Southeastern European Regional Programming Contest.
There were 60 programming teams registered, from Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina Greece, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, and Yugoslavia.
In the Southeastern European Region were accepted 53 teams, from 44 universities and 8 countries.
The first place was awarded to:
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", BULGARIA
Team Name: Sofia University 2
Krassimir Manev, Coach
Kristiyan Haralambiev, Contestant
Miloslav Sredkov, Contestant
Petko Minkov, Contestant
with 7 problems solved and a penalty of 827 points.
The second place was awarded to:
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", BULGARIA
Team Name: Sofia University 3
Krassimir Manev, Coach
Anev Ivan, Contestant
Riskov Ivaylo, Contestant
Tsvetan Bogdanov, Contestant
with 7 problems solved and a penalty of 922 points.
The third place was awarded to:
Bucharest University, ROMANIA
Team Name: UNIBUC-COLEGIU
Cristian Grozea, Coach
Angel-Stelian Proorocu, Contestant
Matei Gruber, Contestant
Tiberiu Danet, Contestant
with 7 problems solved and a penalty of 1085 points.
The teams were required to solve 9 programming problems in 5 hours using one of C, C++, Java or Pascal programming languages.
There were 3 team with 7 solved problems, 3 teams with 6 solved problems, 7 teams with 5 solved problems. Most of the teams only solved 3 problems.
We consider that the set of problems was difficult enough.
The computers the contest was run on were IBM-PCs Pentium IV, 256 MB RAM, 2,6GHz, 60 GB HDD, interconnected through a network and running Linux and Windows XP. They were provided by FORTE Computers.
The site of the contest was the main hall of the "Rectorat" building, POLITEHNICA University.
The evaluation of the results and the scoring were based on the Personal Computer Programming Contest program (PC2) V8.5, developed at the Computer Science Department, Sacramento, California State University. The use of PC2 allowed a smooth run of the contest and facilitated the activity of judges and runners. I want to thank to John Clevenger for his help during the contest, regarding the new version of PC^2.
The 53 teams totaled a number of 159 students. There were more than 10 staff members and more than 64 volunteers who contributed to the organization and run of the contest.
The first three teams received prizes sent by IBM Canada
The first three teams, judges and contest management team received presents from IBM.
Contest Schedule
HOUR : East European Time (GMT+2)
Thursday October 16th: Arrival and Check-in
12:00 - 20:00 Teams arrive check in at their hotels
Friday October 17th: Contestants’ Meeting
8:00 - 12:00 Teams arrival and Registration (Rectorat Building)
14:00 Opening Ceremony, AN 010 - Rectorat Building
Speakers:
Nicolae Tapus, Contest Director
Ioan Dumitrache, Rector of "Politehnica" University of Bucharest
Cezar Ionescu, Vice Rector of "Politehnica" University
Laurentiu Oftez, Director System Sales Manager of IBM Romania,
Traian Ionescu, General Director of Research and Education Ministry
Lorina Negreanu, Chief Judge
Cristian Giumale, Judge
14:30 - 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 October 18th Big Day – The contest !
09:00 - 09:30 Arriving at contest site
09:15 - 09:30 Briefing with faculty advisors
10:00 - 15:00 CONTEST
19:00 Award Ceremony – Banquet
Sunday October 19th
08:30 Sightseeing
The contest budget was raised using funds from IBM and local contributors.
FORTE Computers provided the hardware infrastructure and technical support.
Ministry of National Education through POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest helped us with the accommodation for Romanian Students.
The companies: REL Computer, BCR, CISCO Romania, Corner Soft Technologies, Microsoft Romania, IPROLAM, Coca Cola contributed with financial support.
Participation in the contest was free of charge. Also, the buffets, the banquet, and the tour of Bucharest City were free of charge for the teams.
Upon registration, each participant received a contest folder containing: a contest badge, a set of the contest rules, a contestant's guide for PC2, a timetable, a map of Bucharest. During the Award Ceremony, Certificates of Participation or Recognition was given to all participants and volunteers. Everybody was very excited upon receiving the certificates, especially the volunteers, thus proving that the ACM idea of offering certificates was highly appreciated.
The day before the Opening Ceremony, IBM Romania organized a press conference attended by more than 50 journalists from the Romanian mass-media. Many press releases were issued, both before and after the contest. Several newspapers published announcements or presentations of the event. National Romanian TV, PRIMA TV, and other broadcast companies transmitted information about the contest in their main news program.
The members of the Steering Committee were:
· Nicolae Ţăpuş,
Contest Director, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department
· Ioan Dumitrache,
Rector of “Politehnica” University of Bucharest
· Cezar Ionescu,
Vice Rector of "Politehnica" University
· Laurentiu Oftez
Director System Sales Manager of IBM Romania
· Traian Ionescu,
General Director of Research and Education Ministry
· Lorina Negreanu
Chief Judge of the Contest
The members of the judging team were:
|
Lorina Negreanu |
Politehnica University of Bucharest |
Chief Judge |
|
Douglas Van Wieren |
University of Sarajevo |
Judge |
|
Cristian Giumale |
Politehnica University of Bucharest |
Judge |
|
Krassimir Manev |
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" |
Judge |
|
Mykhaylo Medvedyev |
Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University |
Judge |
|
Vladimir Nikolov |
Technical University of Varna |
Judge |
|
Volodymyr Mesyura |
Vinnytsia National Technical University |
Judge |
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Aleksandar Samardzic |
University of Belgrade I |
Judge |
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Djura Paunic |
Faculty of Science and Mathematics Novi Sad |
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We would also like to express our thanks to ACM and to IBM Corporation, FORTE Computers for providing us with the hardware infrastructure, to the Romanian Society for Informatics, to the Romanian Chapter of ACM, to POLITEHNICA University, and to the local contributors: REL Computer, BCR, CISCO Romania, Corner Soft Technologies, Microsoft Romania, IPROLAM, Coca Cola, for their generous support for the ACM Southeastern European Regional Programming Contest.
Our thanks also go to Mr. Laurentiu Oftez and Ms. Sofia Zainea from IBM Romania, and Cristian Constantinescu from FORTE computers, Aurel Stanescu from REL Computers for their continuous support to the developing of the contest in excellent conditions.
We want to thank to the network management team and contest Software support lead by Razvan Rughinis, Octavian Purdila from the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Politehnica University.
Last, but not least, we would like to thank all the volunteers who helped run and organize the contest. Special thanks to Ana Varbanescu chief organizer.
Without the help of all these people and organizations, it would have been impossible to make this event happen.
I want address special thanks to Marsha Poucher for continuous help and to Debbie Kilbride and John Clevenger.
As proposal, the next edition of the ACM Southeastern Europe Regional Programming Contest will be held at the Computer Science and Engineering Dept., “POLITEHNICA” University of Bucharest, ROMANIA. We take in consideration to start multi-site contest.
The decision of site for Southeastern Europe Region for next edition will be taken by Contest Headquarter in March 2004.
Prof. Nicolae Tapus
Regional Contest Director
Rank of the ACM Southeastern Europe Region
(Created by CSUS PC^2 8.5 20030812 05 Last updated Sat Oct 18 15:49:42 EEST 2003 )
|
Rank |
Team Name |
University |
Coach Name |
Solved |
Score |
|
1 |
Sofia University 2 |
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" |
Krassimir Manev |
7 |
827 |
|
2 |
Sofia University 3 |
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" |
Krassimir Manev |
7 |
922 |
|
3 |
UNIBUC-COLEGIU |
Bucharest University |
Cristian Grozea |
7 |
1085 |
|
4 |
UPB1 |
POLITEHNICA University Bucharest |
Mihai Stroe |
6 |
695 |
|
5 |
KNU - 1 |
Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University |
Vitaliy Bondarenko |
6 |
894 |
|
6 |
University of Belgrade I |
University of Belgrade |
Aleksandar Samardzic |
6 |
1012 |
|
7 |
Sofia University 1 |
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" |
Krassimir Manev |
5 |
346 |
|
8 |
The Moobles |
Kharkov National University of Radio Electronics |
Olexander Vechur |
5 |
564 |
|
9 |
DNTU1 |
Donetsk National Technical University |
Sergiy Zory |
5 |
654 |
|
10 |
UPBCS |
POLITEHNICA University Bucharest |
Valeriu Iorga |
5 |
905 |
|
11 |
TUB-AE |
Transilvania University of BRASOV |
Stelian MATASE |
5 |
931 |
|
12 |
Elfak Sorcerers |
Faculty of Electronic Engineering Nis |
Dragan Jankovic |
5 |
948 |
|
13 |
Phystech2 |
NTU of Ukraine "KPI", Institute of Physics and Technology |
Iryna Zhdanova |
5 |
1204 |
|
14 |
FIIS |
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi |
Adriana Apetrei |
4 |
444 |
|
15 |
UPT 1 |
Politehnica University Timisoara |
Marius Minea |
4 |
686 |
|
16 |
KNU - 2 |
Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University |
Mykhaylo Medvedyev |
4 |
712 |
|
17 |
TUCN-1 |
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca |
Alin Suciu |
4 |
721 |
|
18 |
TU-Varna |
Technical University of Varna |
Vladimir Nikolov |
4 |
803 |
|
19 |
University of Belgrade II |
University of Belgrade |
Aleksandar Samardzic |
3 |
186 |
|
20 |
Boomerang |
I. I. Mechnikov Odessa National University |
Igor Mazurok |
3 |
392 |
|
21 |
Blue Lions |
Craiova University |
Dan Dumitru Burdescu |
3 |
406 |
|
22 |
Univ.Suceava |
Universitatea Suceava |
Stefan-Gheorghe Pentiuc |
3 |
411 |
|
23 |
cats |
Universitatea Tehnica a Moldovei |
Nicolae Falico |
3 |
417 |
|
24 |
UPB2 |
POLITEHNICA University Bucharest |
Valeriu Iorga |
3 |
429 |
|
25 |
UNIBUC1 |
Bucharest University |
Florin Manea |
3 |
480 |
|
26 |
AUBG |
American University in Bulgaria |
Krassimir Manev |
3 |
494 |
|
27 |
Razbijaci Nis |
Faculty of Science and Mathematics Nis |
Goran Kljajic |
3 |
511 |
|
28 |
UNIBUC2 |
Bucharest University |
Cristian Grozea |
3 |
581 |
|
29 |
UBB1 |
Babes-Bolyai University Cluj Napoca |
Adrian Carcu |
3 |
664 |
|
30 |
Phoneix |
Technological University of Podillia |
Sergiy Kovalchuk |
2 |
80 |
|
31 |
Technical University Iasi |
Technical University "Gh.Asachi" of Iasi |
Stefan Balanica |
2 |
84 |
|
32 |
AMIAK |
Ukrainian State University of Water Management |
Anatoliy Vlasyuk |
2 |
100 |
|
33 |
UBB2 |
Babes-Bolyai University Cluj Napoca |
Adrian Carcu |
2 |
168 |
|
34 |
TUCN-2 |
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca |
Alin Suciu |
2 |
381 |
|
35 |
Xerxes |
University of Oradea |
Alina Bogan-Marta |
2 |
397 |
|
36 |
Sarajevo ETF |
University of Sarajevo |
Douglas Van Wieren |
2 |
407 |
|
37 |
PMF NS |
Faculty of Science and Mathematics Novi Sad |
Djura Paunic |
2 |
573 |
|
38 |
Macedonian Phalanx |
Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematic |
Ljupco Antovski |
2 |
619 |
|
39 |
Compasul |
Military Technical Academy |
Victor Patriciu |
1 |
52 |
|
40 |
Butonarii |
Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Craiova |
Mihai Gabroveanu |
1 |
75 |
|
41 |
University Alba Iulia |
1 Decembrie 1918 University |
Ovidiu Domsa |
1 |
77 |
|
42 |
UPT 2 |
Politehnica University Timisoara |
Marius Minea |
1 |
133 |
|
43 |
Timisoara Brains |
University of the West, Faculty of Mathematics |
Horia-Emil Popa |
1 |
170 |
|
44 |
Fatih Stars (absent) |
Fatih University |
Atakan Kurt |
0 |
0 |
|
44 |
U-Mures |
Petru Maior University |
Ion Cozac |
0 |
0 |
|
44 |
Matrix |
State Flight Academy Of Ukraine |
Alexey Izvalov |
0 |
0 |
|
44 |
Sarajevo PMF |
University of Sarajevo |
Douglas Van Wieren |
0 |
0 |
|
44 |
UPIT |
University of Pitesti |
Maria Miroiu |
0 |
0 |
|
44 |
Timisoara Smarties |
University of the West, Faculty of Mathematics |
Cornel Izbasa |
0 |
0 |