The 2004-2005 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest

Sponsored by IBM

SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE REGION

Bucharest  October 14-17, 2004

 

            The Department of Computer Science and Engineering from the POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest had the honor to organize the 2004-2005 ACM Southeastern European Regional Programming Contest. There were 50 programming teams registered, from Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro, Greece,  Moldova, Romania and Ukraine.

In the Southeastern European Region 45 teams were accepted from 33 universities and 6 countries.

 

The first place was awarded to:

 

POLITEHNICA University Bucharest
Team Name: UPB1

ROMANIA

Dan Ghinea, Contestant
Marius Andrei, Contestant
Mugurel Andreica, Contestant

Valeriu Iorga, Coach

with 7 problems solved and a penalty of 659 points.

 

The second place was awarded to:

 

Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
Team Name: SU-2

BULGARIA

Georgi Tsankov, Contestant
Nikola Momchev, Contestant
Veselin Raychev, Contestant

Miloslav Sredkov, Coach

with 7 problems solved and a penalty of 838 points.

 

The third place was awarded to:

 

Taras Shevchenko Kyiv University
Team Name: KNU 1

UKRAINE

Bogdan Yakovenko, Contestant
Oleksiy Pylypenko, Contestant
Roman Koshlyak, Contestant

Vitaliy Bondarenko, Coach

with 7 problems solved and a penalty of 1398 points.

            The teams were required to solve 9 programming problems in 5 hours using one of the languages Java, C/C++ (Visual Studio 6.0),  Pascal (Delphi).

 

There were 3 team with 7 solved problems, 4 teams with 6 solved problems, 2 teams with 5 solved problems, 8 with 4 solved problems. The rest of the teams solved 3 problems or less. The set of problems was considered to be difficult enough according to the contest’s level.

 

            The computers the contest was run on were IBM-PCs Pentium 4, 512 MB RAM, 2,8GHz, 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 AN building of the POLITEHNICA University.

            The evaluation of the results and the scoring were based on the Personal Computer Programming Contest program (PC2), 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.

            The 45 teams totaled a number of 135 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

 

Thursday October 14th - Arrival and Hotel Check-in

12:00 - 20:00 Teams arrive and Hotel Check-in

 

Friday October 15th - Contestants Meeting

08:00 - 12:00 Teams arrival and Registration

14:00 - 14:30 Opening Ceremony, AN 010 - Building Rectorat

§     Nicolae Tapus, Contest Director

§     Ecaterina Andronescu, Rector of POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest

§     Adriana Ticau, Minister of Communications and Information Technology

§     Laurentiu Oftez, Customers Sales Manager,IBM Romania

§     Traian Ionescu, IT General Manager, 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 16th - 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

 

Sunday October 17th

08:00             Sightseeing Tour

            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: Romanian Broadcasting Society, REL Computer, SYSCO, CISCO Romania, Corner Soft Technologies, Microsoft Romania, S&T, JVM Tehnologic, 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 and Peles Castle Sinaia 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 and a T-Shirt. 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 60 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, ANTENA 1 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

·       Ecaterina Andronescu,

Rector of  “Politehnica” University of Bucharest

·       Adriana Ticau

Minister of Communications and Information Technology

·       Dumitru Popescu

Dean of the Computer Science and Automation Faculty

·       Marian Gheorghe

Vice Rector of "Politehnica" University                                 

·       Laurentiu Oftez

 Director System Sales Manager of IBM Romania

·       Lorina Negreanu

Chief Judge of the Contest

 

            The members of the judging team were:

Lorina Negreanu

Politehnica University of Bucharest

Chief 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

Nemanja Jovanovic

University of Belgrade

Judge

Charis Doykas

University Of The Aegean

Judge

            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 to the Romanian Chapter of ACM, to POLITEHNICA University, and to the local contributors: Romanian Broadcasting Society, REL Computer, SYSCO, CISCO Romania, Corner Soft Technologies, Microsoft Romania, S&T, JVM Tehnologic, 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 and the colaborators, Cosmin Stan and Anca Hamuraru.

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 April 2005.

 

 

Prof. Nicolae Tapus

Regional Contest Director

 


Rank of the ACM Southeastern Europe Region 2004

Rank

Country

Institution

Name

Solved

Time

1

ROM

Politehnica University Bucharest

UPB-1

7

659

2

BGR

Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”

SU-2

7

838

3

UKR

Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University

KNU-1

7

1398

4

ROM

University of Bucharest

UNIBUC RED DEVILS

6

699

5

ROM

Politehnica University Bucharest

UPB-2

6

865

6

BGR

Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”

SU-1

6

1002

7

BGR

Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”

SU-3

6

1127

8

UKR

NTU of Ukraine "KPI", Institute of Physics and Technology

PHYSTECH

5

981

9

UKR

Kharkov National University of Radio Electronics

DEFAULT TEAM

5

1049

10

ROM

Babes-Bolyai University Cluj Napoca

UBB

4

347

11

YUG

University of Nis

LIONS

4

420

12

ROM

University of Bucharest

UNIBUC FLD

4

481

13

UKR

Vinnytsia National Technical University

VNTU-1

4

514

14

ROM

University of Bucharest

UNIBUC COL

4

619

15

UKR

Donetsk National Technical University

DONNTU

4

665

16

BGR

University of Plovdiv "Paissii Hilendarski"

PU

4

771

17

ROM

“Al. I. Cuza” University Iasi, Faculty of Computer Science

FIIS

4

901

18

UKR

Vinnytsia National Technical University

VNTU-2

3

305

19

YUG

University of Belgrade

UNIBG-2

3

308

20

ROM

Politehnica University Bucharest

UPB-3

3

357

21

UKR

I. I. Mechnikov Odessa National University

X3 TEAM

3

464

22

UKR

Taras Shevchenko Kyiv University

KNU-2

3

544

23

ROM

Petru Maior University

UPM-MURES

3

548

24

UKR

Zaporizhzhya National Technical University

ZNTU

3

580

25

MDA

Universitatea Tehnica a Moldovei

UTM1

3

753

26

ROM

UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA "GH. ASACHI"  IASI

TUIASI

2

188

27

UKR

Kharkov National University of Radio Electronics

CUSTOM TEAM

2

192

28

ROM

Politehnica University Timisoara

UPTIM

2

213

29

ROM

"Lucian Blaga University" of Sibiu

SIBIU

2

290

30

YUG

University of Belgrade

UNIBG-1

2

294

31

ROM

SAPIENTIA HUNGARIAN UNIVERSITY OF TRANSYLVANIA

SAPIENTIA-MS

2

305

32

ROM

Technical University of Cluj Napoca

TUCN-2

2

475

33

BGR

American University in Bulgaria

AUBG

2

490

34

BGR

Technical University of Varna

TU-VARNA

1

27

35

ROM

Universitatea "Dunarea de Jos" Galati

UGAL

1

53

36

ROM

Technical University of Cluj Napoca

TUCN-1

1

58

37

GRC

University of the Aegean

KOLMOGOROV PROGRAMMING TEAM

1

68

38

ROM

"1 Decembrie 1918" University

UNIDEC

1

78

39

ROM

University of Craiova

STIINTA

1

91

40

ROM

Universitatea din Craiova

BLUE LIONS

1

92

41

ROM

Universitatea "Stefan cel Mare" Suceava

UNISV

1

127

42

MLD

State University of Moldova

USM-INFO

1

171

43

ROM

University of Oradea

UNIVERSITY OF ORADEA

1

196

44

MLD

Academia de Studii Economice din Moldova

ASEM

0

0