The 2014-2015 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest

Sponsored by IBM

SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE REGION

Bucharest - Vinnitsa, October 17-18th, 2014

 

The ACM South-Eastern European Regional Programming Contest has been organized as a multi-site contest. The contest took place in the same time, on the 18th of October, and with the same set of problems, in two sites:

  • Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
  • Vinnytsia National Technical University, Ukraine

 In the South-Eastern European Region, the best students from 40 Universities, from 7 countries (Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine) were organized in 76 teams:

 

Bucharest site

Vinnytsia site

Country

Teams

Teams

Albania

1

0

Bulgaria

5

0

Macedonia

2

0

Romania

22

0

Ukraine

0

32

Serbia

6

0

Turkey

6

2

Total teams

42

34

 

Unfortunately two teams (one team from the University of Novi Sad and one team from the University of Nis) could not participate to the contest.

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

 

The first team in the Vinnytsia site occupied 1st place:

 

Lviv National University

Team name: LNU Penguins

with 9 problems solved and a penalty of 1139 points.

Bilyi Roman
Pryshchenko Bohdan
Herasymiv Vitaliy
Vasyl Biletskyy - Coach

 

2nd place

Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University

Team name: Flawless

with 9 problems solved and a penalty of 1242 points.

Roman Furko

Dmytro Ignatenko

Andrii Mostovyi

Vitaly Bondarenko, Coach

 

3rd place

Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University

Team name: Unicon

with 9 problems solved and a penalty of 1334 points.

Maksym Bevza

Sergey Nagin

Yevgen Vasyliv

Mykhailo Medvediev, Coach

 

4th place:

Bucharest University

Team name: Unibuc_Infoarena_Coders

with 9 problems solved and a penalty of 1563 points.

Budau Adrian
Bud Andrei
Heidelbacher Andrei
Dumitran Adrian Marius - Coach

The programming languages of the Regional Contest are Java and C/C++, while the available development software was:  gcc, g++, Sun Java SDK, Emacs, Vim,
manpages-dev, Java Documentation, Eclipse, jEdit, CodeBlocks, GNU Make, Ant, Geany, Mozilla Firefox browser.

 

Some statistics:

No.of 
problems solved

No. of teams

Number of teams vs number of problemsimage002

10

0

9

4

8

1

7

3

6

5

5

10

4

21

3

20

2

6

1

2

0

2

 

Problem

No. of teams

Number of teams that solved each problem

image004

A

67

B

5

C

9

D

72

E

43

F

12

G

5

H

66

I

2

J

22

 

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 Linux Ubuntu 12.04.

The system's architecture also included two servers, one in each site, with similar configuratio and better performance than the client computers.

The evaluation of the results and the scoring were based on ejudge.

The 76 teams totalled almost 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 in Bucharest site received prizes sent by IBM Romania and eMag Fundation in collaboration with eBoda. The first eight teams and two Turkish teams in Vinnytsia received prizes from partners of Ukranian site.


Contest Schedule :

Friday October 18th

09:00 - 12:00  Teams Registration 
14:00 - 14:30  Opening Ceremony – common session on the two sites:
Bucharest site: AN 010 (A-010) – Rectorate Building, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest 
Vinnytsia site: Vinnytsia National Technical University

  • Nicolae Ţăpuş, Contest Director
  • Ecaterina Andronescu, President of Senate University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
  • George Darie, Rector of University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
  • Adina Florea, Dean of the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers
  • Volodimir Grabko, Rector of Vinnytsia National Technical University
  • Volodimir Mesyura, Director of Vinnytsia site
  • Valeriu Nistor, Country Director IBM Romania
  • Valerie Anderson, Microsoft USA
  • Sam Jansen, StarLeaf Ltd, United Kingdom
  • Bogdan Costinescu, Freescale Romania
  • Tudor Vlad, President of eMAG Foundation
  • Lorina Negreanu, Chief Judge

14:30 - 14:45  Break
15:45 - 15:30  Briefing with faculty advisors, students and volunteers – parallel session:

  • Reviewing of the rules
  • Introduction to the practice session

15:30 - 17:00  Practice Session – common session over network

Saturday October 18th – 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
11:00 - 12:00  Discussion with faculty advisors on student preparation for ACM ICPC
19:00              Award Ceremony, Banquet

Sunday October 19th 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: StarLeaf, Microsoft, JVM Technologic, E-Boda, eMag and Freescale contributed with logistic or financial support.

In Vinnytsia site the main financial support was given by IBM. Additional support was given by local partners of Contest: Facebook, Microsoft, CDM, DataGroup, Win Interective, Infopulse, Materialise. Many prizes and gifts were given also by another 15 local partners of Ukrainian site.

 

Participation in the contest was free of charge.

Also, the buffets, the banquet, and the tour of Bucharest 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 ejudge, 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 buffets, the banquet, excursion to the VNTU Art Museum, the tour of Vinnytsia and bowling competition also were free of charge for the teams in Vinnytsia. Upon registration each participant received a contest package containing: a contest badge, a T-Shirt, Certificates of Participation, personal notepad with personal photo of participant and: Contest schedule, map of VNTU campus, lists of Universities and teams which took participation in both sites of the SEERC, a set of the contest rules and guide for e-judge. Certificates of Recognition were given to all volunteers at the Award Ceremony. Six the best teams of the Ukrainian site won prizes, medals and cups, and the team of the Ivan Franko Lviv National University received also Grand Challenge Cup.

On the eve of the Opening of Contest the press conference was held in the press center of the Vinnytsia city hall. Reports about Contest were broadcast by radio and TV and also were published in the newspapers of Vinnytsia and on the web sites of the Contest information-partners.

 

The members of the Steering Committee were:

  • Nicolae Ţăpuş, Contest Director
  • Božena Mannová, Director of European Contests
  • Ecaterina Andronescu, President of Senate University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
  • George Darie, Rector of POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest
  • Adina Florea, Dean of the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Sciencet
  • Volodymyr Grabko, Rector of Vinnytsia National Technical University
  • Volodymyr Mesyura, Director of Vinnytsia site
  • Valeriu Nistor, Country Director IBM Romania
  • Sofia Zainea, PR & Comms. Manager at IBM Romania
  • Theodor Borangiu, University Relations Coordinator IBM Romania
  • Lorina Negreanu, Chief Judge

 

The members of the judging team were:

·         Chief Judge: Lorina Negreanu - University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest

·         Vitaly Bondarenko - Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University

·         Matei Popovici - University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest

·         Radu Stoenescu - Romania

·         Andrei Mogos - University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest

·         Mugurel Andreica - Google Zurich

·         Ivaylo Strandjev - Sofia University

·         Igor Trajkovski - University Sts Cyril and Methodius Skopje

·         Vasyl Biletskyy - Lviv National University

·         Iryna Nazarchuk - National Technical University of Ukraine "Kiev Polytechnic Institute"

·         Oleg Petrov - Odessa National Mechnikov University

·         Mykhailo Medvediev - Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University

·         Osman Abul - TOBB University of Economics and Technology

 

We would also like to express our thanks to ACM and to IBM Corporation, to the Romanian Chapter of ACM, to POLITEHNICA University, to All-Ukrainian charitable fund «Association of support and development of information technologies», to Vinnytsia National Technical University and to the local contributors: StarLeaf, Microsoft, JVM Technologic, E-Boda, eMag,  Freescale, Facebook, CDM, DataGroup, Win Interective, Infopulse, Materialise for their generous support for the ACM Southeastern European Regional Programming Contest.

           

Our thanks also go to Mr. Valeriu Nistor, 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 thank the network management team lead by Razvan Rughinis 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.

Our thanks also to Serhiy Petrov (Sumy State University), Vitalii Bondarenko (Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University), Ihor Arsenyuk and Volodymyr Mesyura (Vinnytsa National Technical University) for excellent organization of SEERC in the Vinnytsia site.

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 their continuous support, to Prof. Dr. Božena Mannová, Director of European Contests, and to Debbie Kilbride.

 

Prof. Nicolae Tapus

Regional Contest Director