The 2000-2001 ACM International Collegiate Programming
Contest
Sponsored by IBM
SOUTHEASTERN EUROPEAN REGION
Bucharest, October 21st, 2000
The Department of Computer Science
and Engineering from the “Politehnica” University of Bucharest had the honour
to organize the 2000-2001 ACM Southeastern European Regional Programming
Contest.
There were 45 programming teams registered, from Bulgaria, Greece,
Macedonia, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine, and Yugoslavia.
The first place was awarded to:
Mihai Stroe
Bogdan Dumitru
Alexandru Andoni
Valeriu Iorga - coach
from the
POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest 2, Romania, with 5 problems solved
and a penalty of 924 points.
The second place was awarded to:
Nickolay Nickolov
Panayot Dobrikov
Preslav Nakov
Stanislav Ovcharov - coach
from
the Sofia University “St Kliment Ohrinski” , Bulgaria with 3 problems solved
and a penalty of 515 points.
The third place was awarded to:
Adrian Ion
Marcel Barbulescu
Sergiu Stefanov
Ioan Stoianov
- coach
from the Politehnica
University of Timisoara, with 3 problems solved and a penalty of 610 points.
The fourth, the fifth, and the sixth
place were awarded, respectively, to:
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Electrical
Engineering
Transilvania University of BRASOV
The teams were required to solve 8 programming
problems in 5 hours using one of C or Pascal programming languages. There were
1 team with 5 solved problems, 4 teams with 3 solved problems, 4 teams with 2
solved problems. Most of the teams only solved 1 problem. We consider that the
set of problems was difficult enough.
The computers the contest was run on
were IBM-PCs Pentium III, 64 MB RAM, 733MHz, 10.2 GB HDD, interconnected
through a network and running Windows 2000. They were provided by FORTE
Computers, Sysco ltd., MB Distribution.
The site of the contest was the main hall of the
"Rectorat" building, Politehnica University.
The evaluation of the results and
the scoring were based on the Personal Computer Programming Contest program (PC2)
v7.4, 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 45 teams totalled a number of
135 students. There were more than 40 staff members and more than 51 volunteers
who contributed to the organization and run of the contest.
Each member of the
participating teams received prizes consisting of software kits of Visual Age
for Java 3.02, VisualAge C++ Professional 4.0, Visual Age for Java 3.0 &
Programming JavaBean. The first three teams received presents from IBM.
All participants will be offered a free 1
year ACM Student Membership.
Contest Schedule
HOUR : East
European Time (GMT+2)
Thursday
October 19th: Arrival and Check-in
12:00 - 20:00 Teams arrive and
report to the Site Coordinator
(Building EF, room EF302)
Friday
October 20th: Contestants’ Meeting
08:00 - 12:00 Arrival and Check-in
(Building R, 2nd floor)
14:00 Opening Ceremony,
Senate Hall, Building R
Speakers:
·
Nicolae
Ţăpuş,
Contest
Director, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department
·
Ioan Dumitrache,
Rector of “Politehnica” University of Bucharest
·
Vladimir Aninoiu
General Director of IBM Romania
·
Boba Manova
Next
European ACM Contest Director
·
Sergiu Iliescu,
President
of National Agency for Communications
and Informatics
·
Lorina Negreanu
Chief Judge of the Contest
14:45 - 15:00 Break
15:00 - 16:00 Briefing with faculty
advisors, students and volunteers
·
Review the rules
·
Introduction to the
practice session
16:00 - 19:00 Practice Session
Saturday
October 21st Big Day – The contest
!
09:00 - 09:30 Check-in at contest
site
09:15 - 09:30 Briefing with faculty
advisors
12:00
- 17:00 CONTEST
19:00 Award Ceremony – Banquet
08:00 - 18:00 Sightseeing Tour of
Bran Castel and Sinaia
The contest budget
was raised using funds from IBM and local contributors.
FORTE Computers, SYSCO and MB Distribution provided the hardware
infrastructure and technical support.
Ministry of National Education through
“Politehnica” University of Bucharest
helped us with the accommodation for Romanian Students.
Also Netway, REL Computer, IPROLAMSA, Corner
Soft Technologies, CISCO Romania, Microsoft Romania, JVM Tehnologic EXIM,
SIVECO Romania, ORACLE Romania, VOGEL Publishing Romania, Coca-Cola
Romania contributed with financial
support.
Participation in the contest was free of
charge. Also, the buffets, the banquet, and the tour of Bran and Sinaia
were free of charge.
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 software kits
of Visual Age for Java, C++, and Introduction to Visual Age for Java &
Programming JavaBean.
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.
The day before the Opening Ceremony,
IBM Romania organized a press conference attended by more than 40 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
·
Ioan Dumitrache,
Rector of “Politehnica” University of Bucharest
·
Vladimir Aninoiu
General Director of IBM Romania
·
Boba Manova
Next
European ACM Contest Director
·
Sergiu Iliescu,
President
of National Agency for Communications
and Informatics
·
Lorina Negreanu
Chief Judge of the Contest
The members of the judging team
were:
Lorina Negreanu Chief Judge
Irina Athanasiu Judge, Romania
Efstathios Zachos Judge, Greece
Dragan Milicev Judge, Yugoslavia
Halil Altay Guvenir Judge, Turkey
Krassimir Manev Judge, Bulgaria
Stanislav Ochvanov Judge, Bulgaria
Vladimir Mesyura Judge, Ukraine
Anastas Misev Judge, Macedonia
We
would also like to express our thanks to ACM and to IBM Corporation, FORTE
Computers, SYSCO, MB Distribution, for providing us with the hardware
infrastructure, to the Romanian Society for Informatics, to the Romanian
Chapter of ACM, to “Politehnica” University, and to the local contributors:
Netway, REL Computer, IPROLAMSA, Corner Soft Technologies, CISCO Romania,
Microsoft Romania, JVM Tehnologic EXIM, SIVECO Romania, ORACLE Romania, VOGEL
Publishing Romania, GeCAD, Coca-Cola Romania for their generous support for the
ACM Southeastern European Regional Programming Contest.
Our
thanks also go to Mr. Paul Lefter and Ms. Sofia Zainea from IBM Romania, and
Cristian Constantinescu from FORTE computers for their continuous support to
the developing of the contest in excellent conditions.
We
also want to thank to the network management team lead by Razvan Rughinis 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. Without the help
of all these people and organizations, it would have been impossible to make
this event happen.
The next edition of the ACM Southeastern European Regional Programming
Contest will be held at the Computer Science and Engineering Dept.,
“POLITEHNICA” University of Bucharest, ROMANIA.
Prof.
Nicolae Tapus
Regional Contest Director
|
Rank |
University Name |
Solved |
Penalty |
|
1 |
POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest 2 |
5 |
924 |
|
2 |
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" 2 |
3 |
515 |
|
3 |
Politehnica
University of Timisoara 1 |
3 |
610 |
|
4 |
University of
Belgrade, Faculty of Electrical Engineering |
3 |
650 |
|
5 |
Transilvania
University of BRASOV |
3 |
702 |
|
6 |
Alexandru Ioan
Cuza University of Iasi |
2 |
192 |
|
7 |
Faculty of
Electronic Engineering |
2 |
261 |
|
8 |
Babes Bolyai
University, Dept. of CS |
2 |
286 |
|
9 |
University
POLITEHNICA Bucharest |
2 |
299 |
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Honorable Mention |
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10 |
University Sts
Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia |
|
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11 |
Tehnical
University Of Cluj-Napoca |
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12 |
Technical
University - Varna |
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13 |
Politehnica
University of Bucharest |
|
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14 |
Sofia
University "St. Kliment Ohridski" |
|
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15 |
Sofia
University "St. Kliment Ohridski" |
|
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16 |
Faculty of
Mathematics, University of Belgrade |
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17 |
Politehnica
University of Timisoara |
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18 |
Universitatea
"Stefan cel Mare" Suceava |
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18 |
UNIVERSITY OF
CRAIOVA |
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18 |
Alexandru Ioan
Cuza University of Iasi |
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18 |
Technical
University of Crete |
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18 |
University of
Plovdiv |
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18 |
Odessa State
University, IMEM |
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18 |
American
University in Bulgaria |
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18 |
University Sts
Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia |
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18 |
OVIDIUS
University of Constanta |
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18 |
Faculty Of
Mathematics And Natural Sciences |
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18 |
Bucharest
University |
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18 |
Petru Maior
University of Tirgu-Mures |
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18 |
Taras
Shevchenko Kyiv National University |
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18 |
University of
the West Timisoara |
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18 |
Vinnytsya
State Technical University |
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18 |
Bilkent
University |
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18 |
Technical
University of Iasi |
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18 |
National
Technical University of Athens |
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18 |
University of
the West Timisoara |
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18 |
Lucian Blaga
University of Sibiu |
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18 |
OVIDIUS
University of Constanta |
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18 |
Institute of
Informatics PMF Skopje, Macedonia |
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18 |
Dunarea de Jos
University of Galati |
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18 |
Institute of
Informatics PMF Skopje, Macedonia |
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