The 2004-2005 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
Sponsored by IBM
SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE REGION
Bucharest October 14-17, 2004
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering from the POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest had the honor to organize the 2004-2005 ACM Southeastern European Regional Programming Contest. There were 50 programming teams registered, from Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro, Greece, Moldova, Romania and Ukraine.
In the Southeastern European Region 45 teams were accepted from 33 universities and 6 countries.
The first place was awarded to:
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POLITEHNICA University Bucharest ROMANIA |
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Dan
Ghinea, Contestant Valeriu Iorga, Coach |
with 7 problems solved and a penalty of 659 points.
The second place was awarded to:
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Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" BULGARIA |
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Georgi
Tsankov, Contestant Miloslav Sredkov, Coach |
with 7 problems solved and a penalty of 838 points.
The third place was awarded to:
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Taras Shevchenko Kyiv University UKRAINE |
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Bogdan
Yakovenko, Contestant Vitaliy Bondarenko, Coach |
with 7 problems solved and a penalty of 1398 points.
The teams were required to solve 9 programming problems in 5 hours using one of the languages Java, C/C++ (Visual Studio 6.0), Pascal (Delphi).
There were 3 team with 7 solved problems, 4 teams with 6 solved problems, 2 teams with 5 solved problems, 8 with 4 solved problems. The rest of the teams solved 3 problems or less. 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, 512 MB RAM, 2,8GHz, 60 GB HDD, interconnected through a network and running Linux and Windows XP. They were provided by FORTE Computers.
The site of the contest was the AN 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 45 teams totaled a number of 135 students. There were more than 10 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.
The first three teams, judges and contest management team received presents from IBM.
Contest Schedule
Thursday October 14th - Arrival and Hotel Check-in
12:00 - 20:00 Teams arrive and Hotel Check-in
Friday October 15th - Contestants Meeting
08:00 - 12:00 Teams arrival and Registration
14:00 - 14:30 Opening Ceremony, AN 010 - Building Rectorat
§ Nicolae Tapus, Contest Director
§ Ecaterina Andronescu, Rector of POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest
§ Adriana Ticau, Minister of Communications and Information Technology
§ Laurentiu Oftez, Customers Sales Manager,IBM Romania
§ Traian Ionescu, IT General Manager, Education Ministry
§ Lorina Negreanu, Chief Judge
§ Cristian Giumale, Judge
14:30 - 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 16th - Big Day! 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 17th
08:00 Sightseeing Tour
The contest budget was raised using funds from IBM and local contributors. FORTE Computers provided the hardware infrastructure and technical support.
Ministry of National Education through POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest helped us with the accommodation for Romanian Students.
The companies: Romanian Broadcasting Society, REL Computer, SYSCO, CISCO Romania, Corner Soft Technologies, Microsoft Romania, S&T, JVM Tehnologic, 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 Peles Castle Sinaia 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 attended by more than 60 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, ANTENA 1 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
· Ecaterina Andronescu,
Rector of “Politehnica” University of Bucharest
· Adriana Ticau
Minister of Communications and Information Technology
· Dumitru Popescu
Dean of the Computer Science and Automation Faculty
· Marian Gheorghe
Vice Rector of "Politehnica" University
· Laurentiu Oftez
Director System Sales Manager of IBM Romania
· Lorina Negreanu
Chief Judge of the Contest
The members of the judging team were:
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Lorina Negreanu |
Politehnica University of Bucharest |
Chief Judge |
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Cristian Giumale |
Politehnica University of Bucharest |
Judge |
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Krassimir Manev |
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" |
Judge |
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Mykhaylo Medvedyev |
Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University |
Judge |
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Vladimir Nikolov |
Technical University of Varna |
Judge |
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Volodymyr Mesyura |
Vinnytsia National Technical University |
Judge |
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Nemanja Jovanovic |
University of Belgrade |
Judge |
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Charis Doykas |
University Of The Aegean |
Judge |
We would also like to express our thanks to ACM and to IBM Corporation, FORTE Computers for providing us with the hardware infrastructure, to the to the Romanian Chapter of ACM, to POLITEHNICA University, and to the local contributors: Romanian Broadcasting Society, REL Computer, SYSCO, CISCO Romania, Corner Soft Technologies, Microsoft Romania, S&T, JVM Tehnologic, Coca Cola for their generous support for the ACM Southeastern European Regional Programming Contest.
Our thanks also go to Mr. Laurentiu Oftez and Ms. Sofia Zainea from IBM Romania, and Cristian Constantinescu from FORTE computers, Aurel Stanescu from REL Computers for their continuous support to the developing of the contest in excellent conditions.
We want to thank to the network management team and contest Software support lead by Razvan Rughinis, Octavian Purdila 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. Special thanks to Ana Varbanescu chief organizer and the colaborators, Cosmin Stan and Anca Hamuraru.
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. We take in consideration to start multi-site contest.
The decision of site for Southeastern Europe Region for next edition will be taken by Contest Headquarter in April 2005.
Prof. Nicolae Tapus
Regional Contest Director
Rank of the ACM Southeastern Europe Region 2004
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Rank |
Country |
Institution |
Name |
Solved |
Time |
|
1 |
ROM |
Politehnica University Bucharest |
UPB-1 |
7 |
659 |
|
2 |
BGR |
Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” |
SU-2 |
7 |
838 |
|
3 |
UKR |
Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University |
KNU-1 |
7 |
1398 |
|
4 |
ROM |
University of Bucharest |
UNIBUC RED DEVILS |
6 |
699 |
|
5 |
ROM |
Politehnica University Bucharest |
UPB-2 |
6 |
865 |
|
6 |
BGR |
Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” |
SU-1 |
6 |
1002 |
|
7 |
BGR |
Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” |
SU-3 |
6 |
1127 |
|
8 |
UKR |
NTU of Ukraine "KPI", Institute of Physics and Technology |
PHYSTECH |
5 |
981 |
|
9 |
UKR |
Kharkov National University of Radio Electronics |
DEFAULT TEAM |
5 |
1049 |
|
10 |
ROM |
Babes-Bolyai University Cluj Napoca |
UBB |
4 |
347 |
|
11 |
YUG |
University of Nis |
LIONS |
4 |
420 |
|
12 |
ROM |
University of Bucharest |
UNIBUC FLD |
4 |
481 |
|
13 |
UKR |
Vinnytsia National Technical University |
VNTU-1 |
4 |
514 |
|
14 |
ROM |
University of Bucharest |
UNIBUC COL |
4 |
619 |
|
15 |
UKR |
Donetsk National Technical University |
DONNTU |
4 |
665 |
|
16 |
BGR |
University of Plovdiv "Paissii Hilendarski" |
PU |
4 |
771 |
|
17 |
ROM |
“Al. I. Cuza” University Iasi, Faculty of Computer Science |
FIIS |
4 |
901 |
|
18 |
UKR |
Vinnytsia National Technical University |
VNTU-2 |
3 |
305 |
|
19 |
YUG |
University of Belgrade |
UNIBG-2 |
3 |
308 |
|
20 |
ROM |
Politehnica University Bucharest |
UPB-3 |
3 |
357 |
|
21 |
UKR |
I. I. Mechnikov Odessa National University |
X3 TEAM |
3 |
464 |
|
22 |
UKR |
Taras Shevchenko Kyiv University |
KNU-2 |
3 |
544 |
|
23 |
ROM |
Petru Maior University |
UPM-MURES |
3 |
548 |
|
24 |
UKR |
Zaporizhzhya National Technical University |
ZNTU |
3 |
580 |
|
25 |
MDA |
Universitatea Tehnica a Moldovei |
UTM1 |
3 |
753 |
|
26 |
ROM |
UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA "GH. ASACHI" IASI |
TUIASI |
2 |
188 |
|
27 |
UKR |
Kharkov National University of Radio Electronics |
CUSTOM TEAM |
2 |
192 |
|
28 |
ROM |
Politehnica University Timisoara |
UPTIM |
2 |
213 |
|
29 |
ROM |
"Lucian Blaga University" of Sibiu |
SIBIU |
2 |
290 |
|
30 |
YUG |
University of Belgrade |
UNIBG-1 |
2 |
294 |
|
31 |
ROM |
SAPIENTIA HUNGARIAN UNIVERSITY OF TRANSYLVANIA |
SAPIENTIA-MS |
2 |
305 |
|
32 |
ROM |
Technical University of Cluj Napoca |
TUCN-2 |
2 |
475 |
|
33 |
BGR |
American University in Bulgaria |
AUBG |
2 |
490 |
|
34 |
BGR |
Technical University of Varna |
TU-VARNA |
1 |
27 |
|
35 |
ROM |
Universitatea "Dunarea de Jos" Galati |
UGAL |
1 |
53 |
|
36 |
ROM |
Technical University of Cluj Napoca |
TUCN-1 |
1 |
58 |
|
37 |
GRC |
University of the Aegean |
KOLMOGOROV PROGRAMMING TEAM |
1 |
68 |
|
38 |
ROM |
"1 Decembrie 1918" University |
UNIDEC |
1 |
78 |
|
39 |
ROM |
University of Craiova |
STIINTA |
1 |
91 |
|
40 |
ROM |
Universitatea din Craiova |
BLUE LIONS |
1 |
92 |
|
41 |
ROM |
Universitatea "Stefan cel Mare" Suceava |
UNISV |
1 |
127 |
|
42 |
MLD |
State University of Moldova |
USM-INFO |
1 |
171 |
|
43 |
ROM |
University of Oradea |
UNIVERSITY OF ORADEA |
1 |
196 |
|
44 |
MLD |
Academia de Studii Economice din Moldova |
ASEM |
0 |
0 |