Romanian Chapter of the
Association for Computing Machinery
The SouthEastern European Regional Contest
of the
ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
The
2005-2006 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
Sponsored by IBM
The Department of
Computer Science and Engineering from the POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest
had the honor to organize the 2005-2006 ACM Southeastern European Regional
Programming Contest. There were 43 programming teams registered, from
In the Southeastern
European Region 43 teams were accepted from 31 universities and 6 countries.
The first place was
awarded to:
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Taras Shevchenko Kyiv University, |
|
Vitaliy
Bondarenko, Coach |
with 6 problems solved and a penalty of
746 points.
The second place was
awarded to:
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Sofia University, |
|
Krassimir
Manev, Coach |
with 6 problems solved and a
penalty of 981 points.
The third place was
awarded to:
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Vinnytsia National Technical University, |
|
Volodymyr
Mesyura, Coach |
with 6 problems solved and a penalty
of 983 points.
The teams were required to solve 9
programming problems in 5 hours using one of the languages Java, C/C++ (Visual
Studio .NET), Pascal (
There were 4 teams
with 6 solved problems, 7 teams with 5 solved problems, 7 teams with 4 solved
problems, 7 with 3 solved problems. The rest of the teams solved 2 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, interconnected through a network and
running Linux and Windows XP. They were provided by FORTE Computers.
The site of the contest
was the “Rectorat” building of the
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
The 43 teams totaled a
number of 147 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 13th -
Arrival and Hotel Check-in
12:00 - 20:00 Teams arrive and Hotel Check-in
Friday
October 14th -
Contestants Meeting
08:00 - 12:00 Teams arrival and Registration
14:00 - 14:30 Opening Ceremony, AN 010 - Building „Rectorat”
·
Nicolae
Ţăpuş, Contest Director
·
Ecaterina
Andronescu Rector of
·
Gheorghe
Marian, ViceRector of
·
Mihai
Popescu, ViceRector of
·
Ion
Ivan, General Director of Research and Education Ministry
·
Laurentiu
Oftez, Customers Sales Manager, IBM Romania
·
Lorina
Negreanu, Chief Judge
·
Cristian
Giumale, Judge
14:30 - 15:00 Break
15:00 - 16:00 Briefing with faculty advisors, students and volunteers
·
Reviewing
of the rules
·
Introduction
to the practice session
16:00 - 19:00 Practice Session
Saturday
October 15th –
The Big Day! 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 16th – Sightseeing
day
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: REL
Computer, SYSCO, CISCO Romania, Microsoft Romania, UTI Systems, ORACLE, 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
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 35 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
·
Ecaterina Andronescu,
Rector of
“Politehnica”
·
Ion Ivan
General Director of Research and
Education Ministry
·
Dumitru Popescu
Dean of the Computer Science and
Automation Faculty
·
Marian Gheorghe
Vice Rector of
"Politehnica"
University
·
Mihai Popescu
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 |
|
Chief Judge |
|
Cristian Giumale |
|
Judge |
|
Krassimir Manev |
|
Judge |
|
Mykhaylo Medvedyev |
|
Judge |
|
Volodymyr Mesyura |
|
Judge |
|
Nemanja Jovanovic |
|
Judge |
|
Djura Paunic |
|
Judge |
|
Douglas van Wieren |
|
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: REL Computer, SYSCO,
CISCO Romania, Microsoft Romania, UTI Systems, ORACLE, 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 the
network management team lead by Razvan Rughinis and
Bogdan Sass and the contest Software support team
lead by Tudor Golubenco and Razvan Deaconescu 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 Cosmin Stan and Anca Hamuraru, chief organizers.
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 a 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.
The decision of site for
Southeastern