The 2008-2009 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest

Sponsored by IBM

SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE REGION

Bucharest,  October 16-19, 2008

 

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering from the POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest had the honor to organize the 2008-2009 ACM Southeastern European Regional Programming Contest. There were 49 programming teams registered, from Bulgaria, Israel, Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine.

In the Southeastern European Region 45 teams were accepted from 28 universities and 8 countries.

Country                       Teams

•         Bulgaria                       6

•         Israel                           1

•         Macedonia                  2

•         Moldavia                     1

•         Romania                      20

•         Ukraine                       9

•         Serbia                         4

•         Turkey                        1

            Total Teams              44

Unfortunately one team ( University of Nis) could not participate to the contest.

The judge team has proposed 9 problems to be solved in the contest during the 5 hours.

 

The first place was awarded to:

Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University

Team Name: KNU - ddragons

Bondarenko Vitalii, Coach

Raichuk Anton, Contestant

Znovyak Yuriy, Contestant

Rizvanov Roman, Contestant

with 9 problems solved and a penalty of 886 points.

 

The second place was awarded to:

Taurida V.I. Vernadsky National University

Team Name: TNU-1

Barinov Viktor, Contestant
Kanyshchev Sergiy, Contestant
Mangylov Oleksandr, Contestant

with 8 problems solved and a penalty of 777 points.

 

The third place was awarded to:

Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University

Team Name: KNU - exploited

Bondarenko Vitalii, Coach

Smielov Valerii, Contestant

Korotkov Andrii, Contestant

Bacherikov Oleksandr, Contestant

 

with 8 problems solved and a penalty of 1051  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

No of Teams

Number of Problems Solved

 

Problem

Number of Teams that Solved

1

9

 

A

31

3

8

 

B

16

6

7

 

C

17

4

6

 

D

1

5

5

 

E

35

5

4

 

E

17

8

3

 

G

16

3

2

 

H

7

4

1

 

I

38

5

0

 

 

 

 

 

graf1

 

graf2

 

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 “Rectorat” 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 44 teams totalled a number of 184 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.

Also the judges and contest management team received presents from IBM.

 

Contest Schedule

 Thursday October 16th - Arrival and Hotel Check-in

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

Friday October 17th - 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 POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest

•         Theodor Borangiu University relations , IBM  Romania

•         Lorina Negreanu, Chief  

•         Cristian Giumale,  

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 18th – 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 19 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, 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 Bucharest City and Castle Peles, Sinaia 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 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 Darclee ., 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:

·         Nicolae Ţăpuş, Contest Director

·         Ecaterina Andronescu Rector of POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest

·         Theodor Boragiu, University Relations IBM Romania

·         Mihai Tudor, Country General Manager, IBM Romania

·         Lorina Negreanu, Chief Judge

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

Volodymyr Mesyura

Vinnytsia National Technical University

Judge

Biljana Stojkoska

University Ss. Cyril and Methodius

Judge

Gill Barequet

Technion Israel Institute of Technology

Judge

Vasyl Biletsky

Lviv National University

Judge

FatihCamci

Fatih University

Judge

           

We would also like to express our thanks to ACM and to IBM Corporation, 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, 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, Mr. Theodor Borangiu 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 Europe Region for next edition will be taken by Contest Headquarter in April 2009.

 

Prof. Nicolae Tapus

Regional Contest Director

 

Rank of the ACM Southeastern Europe Region 2008

 

The 2008 ACM Southeastern Europe Programming Contest sponsored by IBM

Rank

University

Team

Citation

#Solved

Time

1

Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University

KNU - ddragons

First Place

9

886

2

Taurida V.I. Vernadsky National University

TNU-1

Second Place

8

777

3

Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University

KNU - exploited

Third Place

8

1051

4

National technical university Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute

IF

Fourth Place

8

1091

5

Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University

KNU - Pointless

Fifth Place

7

431

6

Bucharest University

Infoarena Coders

Sixth Place

7

754

7

Donetsk National University

DonNU

Seventh Place

7

1018

8

A.I.Cuza University of Romania

InfoIasi

Eighth Place

7

1023

9

Sofia University

Sofia University I

Ninth Place

7

1145

10

Bucharest University

Unibuc Gold Devils

Tenth Place

7

1309

11

Politehnica University of Bucharest

fad169e3b584

Eleventh Place

6

422

12

Politehnica University of Bucharest

CodeMasters

Twelfth Place

6

593

13

University of Novi Sad

MDCS-NS

Thirteenth Place

6

821

14

Bucharest University

Unibuc Red Devils

Fourteenth Place

6

836

15

Lviv National University

LNU United

Fifteenth Place

5

522

16

Sofia University

Sofia University II

Sixteenth Place

5

580

17

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Techies

Seventeenth Place

5

582

18

Faculty of Computer Science

RAF-1

Eighteenth Place

5

591

19

Taurida V.I. Vernadsky National University

TNU-2

Nineteenth Place

5

917

20

A.I.Cuza University of Romania

FII Champions

Twentieth Place

4

328

21

Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca

BUB

Twenty-first Place

4

416

22

University of Belgrade

MDCS-BG

Twenty-second Place

4

605

23

Lviv Polytechnic National University

mMasters

Twenty-third Place

4

704

24

University Ss. Cyril and Methodius

INFINITY

Twenty-fourth Place

4

756

25

Sofia University

Sofia University III

Twenty-fifth Place

3

53

26

Politehnica University of Timisoara

UPT1

Twenty-sixth Place

3

161

27

University Ss. Cyril and Methodius

APPLIFY

Twenty-seventh Place

3

356

28

Faculty of Computer Science

RAF-2

Twenty-eighth Place

3

367

29

Politehnica University of Bucharest

upb_bums

Twenty-ninth Place

3

384

30

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

TUCN1

Thirtieth Place

3

478

31

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

TUCN2

Thirty-first Place

3

480

32

Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca

random(1)

Thirty-second Place

3

609

33

Politehnica University of Timisoara

UPT2

Thrity-third Place

2

142

34

Sapientia University

sapi

Thirty-fourth Place

2

443

35

Technical University of Iasi

AC UTI

Thirty-fifth Place

2

549

36

University of Rousse

UR08

Thirty-sixth Place

1

175

37

Technical University of Iasi

alGoholics

Thirty-seventh Place

1

191

38

Fatih University

Fatih

Thirty-eighth Place

1

226

39

Stefan cel Mare University of

USV

Thirty-ninth Place

1

271

40

Technical University of Moldova

FCIM

Fortieth Place

0

00

41

Sapientia University

Sapientia-MS

Forty-first Place

0

00

42

Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen

Shu1

Forty-second Place

0

00

43

Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen

SHU2

Forty-third Place

0

00

44

Petru Maior University

U-Mures

Forty-forth Place

0

00