The 2007-2008 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 2007-2008
ACM Southeastern European Regional Programming
Contest. There were 48 programming teams registered, from
In the Southeastern European Region 48 teams were accepted from 30 universities and 7 countries.
Unfortunately
three teams (Technical University of Moldova, ASEM and
The judge team has proposed 9 problems to be solved in the contest during the 5 hours.
The first place was awarded to:
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Vasyl Biletskyy,
Coach and Contestant |
with 9 problems solved and a penalty of 627 points.
The second place was awarded to:
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Vinnytsia
National Technical University |
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Volodymyr Mesyura,
Coach |
with 9 problems solved and a penalty of 874 points.
The third place was awarded to:
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Taras
Shevchenko Kyiv University |
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Vitaliy Bondarenko,
Coach |
with 9 problems solved and a penalty of 1038 points.
The programming languages of the
Regional Contest are Java and C/C++, while the available IDEs
will be Visual C++ Express, Java Creator LE and Eclipse.
Some statistics
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Number of Problems Solved |
No of Teams |
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Problem |
Number of Teams that Solved |
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7 |
9 |
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A |
18 |
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5 |
8 |
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B |
36 |
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5 |
7 |
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C |
26 |
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6 |
6 |
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D |
27 |
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2 |
5 |
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E |
14 |
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5 |
4 |
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E |
27 |
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3 |
3 |
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G |
30 |
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4 |
2 |
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H |
7 |
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5 |
1 |
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I |
41 |
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2 |
0 |
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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.
The site of
the contest was the Rectorate 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 State University. The use of PC2 allowed a smooth run of the contest and facilitated the activity of judges and runners.
The 44 teams totalled a number of 194 students (including coaches , reserves and guests). There were more than 20 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, IBM Romania and Adobe Romania.
Also the judges and contest management team received presents from IBM.
Contest Schedule
Thursday
October 25th -
Arrival and Hotel Check-in
12:00 - 20:00 Teams arrival and Hotel Check-in
Friday
October 26th -
Contestants Meeting
08:00 - 12:00 Teams Registration
14:00 - 14:30 Opening Ceremony, AN 010 - Building „Rectorat”
·
Nicolae Ţăpuş,
Contest Director
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Ecaterina Andronescu Rector
of POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest
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Gheorghe
Marian, ViceRector of POLITEHNICA University
of Bucharest
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Mihai Tudor, Country General Manager, IBM Romania
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Lorina Negreanu, Chief
Judge
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Cristian
Giumale, Judge
14:30 - 15:00 Break
15:00 - 16:00 Briefing with faculty advisors, students
and volunteers
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Reviewing
of the rules
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Introduction
to the practice session
16:00 - 18:00 Practice Session
Saturday
October 27th – 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 28th Sightseeing
day
08:00
Sightseeing Tour
The contest budget was raised using funds from IBM and local contributors.
Ministry of National Education through POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest helped us with the accommodation for Romanian Students.
The companies: S&T Romania, REL Computer, CISCO Romania, Microsoft Romania, UTI Systems, Adobe Systems Romania, ORACLE Romania, JVM Tehnologic, Freescale Semiconductor, 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, in Hotel Howard Johnson, room Colorado., attended by more than 25 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 Broadcast companies transmitted information about the contest in their main news program.
The members of the Steering Committee were:
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Nicolae Ţăpuş,
Contest Director
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Ecaterina Andronescu Rector
of POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest
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Gheorghe
Marian, ViceRector of POLITEHNICA University
of Bucharest
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Mihai Tudor, Country General Manager, IBM Romania
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Lorina Negreanu, Chief
Judge
The members of the judging team were:
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Lorina Negreanu |
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Chief Judge |
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Cristian Giumale |
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Judge |
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Krassimir Manev |
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Judge |
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Mykhaylo Medvedyev |
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Judge |
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Volodymyr Mesyura |
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Judge |
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Nemanja Jovanovic |
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Judge |
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Gill Barequet |
Technion Israel Institute of Technology |
Judge |
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Mile Jovanov |
UKIM PMF Institute of Informatics |
Judge |
We would also like to express our thanks to ACM and to IBM Corporation, FORTE Business Services for providing us with the hardware infrastructure, to the to the Romanian Chapter of ACM, to POLITEHNICA University, and to the local contributors: S&T Software, REL Computer, CISCO Romania, Microsoft Romania, UTI Systems, Adobe Systems Romania, ORACLE, JVM Tehnologic, Coca Cola for their generous support for the ACM Southeastern European Regional Programming Contest.
Our thanks also go to Mr. Mihai Tudor and Ms. Sofia Zainea from IBM Romania for their continuous support to the developing of the contest in excellent conditions.
We want to thank to the network management team lead by Razvan Rughinis and Bogdan Sass and contest Software support lead by Razvan Deaconescu from the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Politehnica University.
Special thanks to Narcisa Milea and Alexandru Olteanu, chief organizers.
Last, but not least, we would like to thank all the volunteers who helped run and organize the contest.
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.
The
decision of site for Southeastern
Prof. Nicolae Tapus
Regional Contest Director
Rank of the ACM Southeastern
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