The 2011-2012 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest

Sponsored by IBM

SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE REGION

Bucharest - Vinnytsia, October 14-16th, 2011

 

This year is the first year when the ACM Southeastern European Regional Programming Contest has been organized as a multi-site contest. The contest took place in the same time, on 14th and 15th of October, and with the same set of problems, in two sites:

 

In the Southeastern European Region, the best students from 49 Universities, from 7 countries ( Bulgaria , Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia , Romania , Turkey and Ukraine ) were organized in 77 teams:

  Bucharest site Vinnytsia site
Country Teams Teams
Bulgaria 3 1
Macedonia 3 0
Romania 18 0
Ukraine 4 32
Serbia 6 0
Turkey 4 4
Moldavia 1 1
Total teams 39 38

 

Unfortunately three teams (American University in Bulgaria, Bahcesehir University and Technical University of Iasi) could not participate to the contest.

 

This year we had the great pleasure of welcoming to attend the Contest: Prof. Dr. Božena Mannová, Director of European Contests.

 

The judge team has proposed 10 problems to be solved in the contest during the 5 hours.

 

The first place was awarded to:

National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"

Team name: iddqd
  • Igor Bichurin
    Dmytro Dzhulgakov
    Vlad Lysychkin
    Leonid Lyubchik - Coach

with 7 problems solved and a penalty of 354 points.

 

The second place was awarded to:

Bucharest University

Team name: Unibuc Orion
  • Paul Baltescu
    Andrei Grigorean
    Marina Horlescu
    Dumitran Adrian Marius - Coach

with 6 problems solved and a penalty of 770 points and

Taurida V.I. Vernadsky National University

Team name: Akai
  • Oleksandr Mangylov
    Oleksandr Milanin
    Oleksandr Vints
    Oleksandr Kozlov - Coach

with 6 problems solved and a penalty of 819 points.

 

The programming languages of the Regional Contest are Java and C/C++, while the available IDEs are Visual C++ Express, Java Creator LE and Eclipse.

 

Some statistics:

 

No. of Teams

No. of Solved Problems

1
7
3
6
3
5
7
4
15
3
19
2
17
1
12
0
   
   

 

 

 

Problem

No. of Teams that Solved It

A

5

B

33

C

45

D

61

E

6

F

0

G

14

H

0

I

0

J

4

 

 

 

The set of problems was considered to be difficult enough according to the contest’s level.

 

The client computers the contest was run on were IBM-PCs, with similar configurations for the two sites, interconnected through a network and running Windows XP.

The system's architecture also included two servers, one in each site, with similar configuration and better performance than the client computers. Despite all the best efforts given by technical teams on both sites, due to technical issues (server overload) a number of submissions from Vinnytsia site were not loaded on the server during the last 30 minutes of the Contest.

The evaluation of the results and the scoring were based on Personal Computer Programming Contest (PC2), developed at the Computer Science Department, Sacramento, California State University. The version of PC2 server initially selected (9.1.6) was not able to test output files larger than 512KB. Some contest problems were unable to use that. So it was necessary to fall back to version 8.7 of PC2 to make sure that all the problems selected by the international jury could be judged.

After the contest there were a number of appeals, regarding the fact that most of the submissions from the Vinnytsia site in the last 30 minutes were not loaded on the server. The decision of the Appeal Committee was, for the Final Ranking, to take into consideration for each team the best rank between Contest End and 30 minutes before Contest End.

  The 77 teams totalled more than 300 students, coaches, reserves and guests. There were more than 20 staff members and more than 50 volunteers who contributed to the organization and run of the contest.

The first three teams received prizes sent by IBM Romania.

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


 Contest Schedule :

Friday October 14th - Contestants Meeting

08:00 - 12:00  Teams Registration 
14:00 - 14:30  Opening Ceremony – common session on the two sites:
Bucharest site: AN 010 (A-010) – Rectorate Building, Politehnica University of Bucharest 
Vinnytsia site: Vinnytsia National Technical University

  • Nicolae Ţăpuş, Contest Director
  • Božena Mannová, Director of European Contests
  • Ecaterina Andronescu, Rector of POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest
  • Volodymyr Grabko, Rector of Vinnytsia National Technical University
  • Volodymyr Mesyura, Director of Vinnytsia site
  • Bogdan Balaci, Country General Manager, IBM Romania
  • Lorina Negreanu, Chief Judge

14:30 - 15:00  Break
15:00 - 16:00  Briefing with faculty advisors, students and volunteers – parallel session:

  • Reviewing of the rules
  • Introduction to the practice session

16:00 - 18:00  Practice Session – common session over network

Saturday October 15th – The Contest

09:00 - 09:30  Check-in at contest site 
09:15 - 09:30  Briefing with faculty advisors – parallel session
10:00 - 15:00  CONTEST– common over network
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.

Ministry of National Education through POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest helped us with the accommodation for Romanian and Moldavian Students.

The companies: Intel Software, Freescale, Cisco Systems, Oracle, Kapsch Group, JVM Technologic, Microsoft Serbia and Koyos 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 were 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.

Before the Opening Ceremony, IBM Romania organized a press conference attended by more than 15 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:

 

The members of the judging team were:

Judges on Bucharest site
Lorina Negreanu Romania Chief judge
Cristian Giumale Romania Judge
Radu Negulescu Romania Judge
Virgil Palanciuc Romania Judge
Costin Raiciu Romania Judge
Mykhailo Medvedev Ukraine Judge
Marat Khazin Ukraine Judge
Judges on Vinnytsia site
Shamil Yagiyayev Ukraine Judge
     
Invited to be judges
Daniil Neiter Ukraine Judge
Valentyn Melnyk Ukraine Judge
Svetlin Nakov Bulgaria Judge
Tsvetan Bogdanov Bulgaria Judge
Ahmet Sacan Turkey Judge
Sertan Girgin Turkey 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: Intel Software, Freescale, Cisco Systems, Oracle, Kapsch Group, JVM Technologic, Microsoft Serbia and Koyos for their generous support for the ACM Southeastern European Regional Programming Contest.

           

Our thanks also go to Mr. Bogdan Balaci, Ms. Sofia Zainea and 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 Alexandru Olteanu chief organizer.

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.

 

We want to address special thanks to Marsha Poucher and James Comer for helping us manage the outcome of the contest, to Prof. Dr. Božena Mannová, Director of European Contests, who attended SEERC this year and to Debbie Kilbride.

   

Prof. Nicolae Tapus

Regional Contest Director

 

The Contest Results take into consideration the highest ranking between End of Contest and 30 minutes before End of Contest:

Rank Name University Solved Time
1 iddqd National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute" 7 354
2 Unibuc Orion Bucharest University 6 770
2 Akai Taurida V.I. Vernadsky National University 6 819
4 Reckless Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University 6 1043
4 Donetsk NU: United Donetsk National University 5 513
5 LNU_United Lviv National University 5 549
6 1024 National Technical University of Ukraine "Kiev Polytechnic Institute" 5 745
7 VNTU [wRabbits] Vinnytsia National Technical University 4 165
8 boun 1 Bogazici University   4 269
9 BZFlags Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University 4 362
10 IASA #3 National Technical University of Ukraine "Kiev Polytechnic Institute" 4 410
11 Mistborns Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University 4 415
12 VNTU [IOTeam] Vinnytsia National Technical University 4 461
13 SobolevTeam V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University 4 646
14 A-2 National Technical University of Ukraine "Kiev Polytechnic Institute" 3 51
16 KNURE_Team Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics 3 169
17 RAF 0x01 Faculty of Computer Science, Belgrade  3 229
18 ONU_1 2/3 Odessa National Mechnikov University 3 256
19 SSU Team 2 Sumy State University 3 266
20 Checkraise Babes-Bolyai University 3 348
21 Phantom Menace Taurida V.I. Vernadsky National University 3 384
22 Presentation Error Bilkent University 3 399
22 The Avengers POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest 3 404
23 n0 ex1t Sofia University 3 468
24 MSUSB 1 Moscow State University - Sevastopol 3 534
25 TUCN-Eagles Technical University of Cluj-Napoca 3 492
25 NULP_Prime Lviv Polytechnic National University 3 581
26 Unibuc Smecheria Bucharest University 3 605
27 NULP_Slayers Lviv Polytechnic National University 2 68
29 The Cod3rs Technical University of Cluj-Napoca 3 765
29 ONU_hex Odessa National Mechnikov University 2 100
30 FII Champions A.I.Cuza University 2 116
31 Wrong Answer Bilkent University 2 137
32 METUGrandPas Middle East Technical University 2 138
33 ONPU_YaKI Odessa National Polytechnic University 2 150
34 Hakuna Matata POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest 2 185
36 Silicious Men (DonNTU) Donetsk National Technical University 2 224
38 RAF 0x00 Faculty of Computer Science, Belgrade  2 241
39 Unibuc TwoAndAHalfMen Bucharest University 2 245
40 ChNU team Cherkasy National University 2 268
41 MDCS::BELGRADE University of Belgrade 2 279
42 The Ninjas University of Nis - Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics 2 294
43 Kickers POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest 2 382
43 MSUSB 2 Moscow State University - Sevastopol 2 384
44 LNU Juniors Lviv National University 2 449
45 boun 2 Bogazici University   2 502
46 Donetsk NU 78 Donetsk National University 2 564
47 MKD2 University Sts Cyril and Methodius - Skopje - Macedonia 2 659
48 Rivne NUWM 1 National University of Water Management and Natural Resources Application 1 1
49 ARA Dnipropetrovsk National University 1 29
50 SSU Team: OnFire Sumy State University 1 32
51 METU-TR3 Middle East Technical University 1 37
53 DNU2 Dnipropetrovsk National University 1 78
54 TMInfo POLITEHNICA University of Timisoara 1 108
55 SevNTU_T_72 Sevastopol National Technical University 1 122
56 BrasovCoders TRANSILVANIA University Brasov 1 143
57 Team4ACE UNIVERSITY OF CRAIOVA 1 149
58 UGD University "Goce Delcev" - Stip 1 151
59 UPT8 POLITEHNICA University of Timisoara 1 166
60 MDCS Novi Sad University of Novi Sad 1 168
61 URBG University of Ruse 1 170
62 CUBE State University of Informatics and Artificial Intelligence 1 178
63 USMTeam State University of Moldova 1 226
64 RGB V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University 1 250
65 Nepra Babes-Bolyai University 1 255
66 Desperados National Aerospace University KhAI 0 0
66 Magenta Flag West University of Timisoara, Romania 0 0
66 MegaByte Megatrend University 0 0
66 MKD1 University Sts Cyril and Methodius - Skopje - Macedonia 0 0
66 NBU New Bulgarian University 0 0
66 Random Guys Middle East Technical University 0 0
66 sapi Sapientia University 0 0
66 U235_snil-it#1 Sevastopol National University of Nuclear Energy and Industry 0 0
66 WFlame Academy of Economic Studies of Republic of Moldova 0 0