The 1999-Y2K ACM International Collegiate Programming
Contest
Sponsored by IBM
SOUTHEASTERN EUROPEAN REGION
Bucharest, October 23th, 1999
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering from the “Politehnica”
University of Bucharest had the honor of organizing the 1999-2000 ACM
Southeastern European Regional Programming Contest.
There were 42 programming
teams registered, from Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Turkey,
Ukraine, and Yugoslavia.
The first place was awarded to:
Adrian Sandor
Virgil Serbanuta
Traian Serbanuta
Cristian Grozea - coach
from
the Bucharest University 1,
Romania, with 5 problems solved and a penalty of 909
points.
The second place was awarded
to:
Boro Jakimovski
Igor Trajkovski
Zarko Aleksovski
Anastas Misev - coach
from the Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Natural
Science and Mathematics, Macedonia with 3 problems solved and a penalty
of 378 points.
The third place was awarded to:
Ognyan Kulev
Plamen Tsekov
Preslav Nakov
Stanislav Ovcharov - coach
from the Sofia
University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria, with 3 problems solved and a
penalty of 589 points.
The fourth, the fifth, and the sixth place were awarded, respectively,
to:
POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest,
Romania
POLITEHNICA University of Timisoara,
Romania
Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski,
Bulgaria
Teams’ task was to solve 8 problems in 5 hours using C or Pascal programming languages. There was 1 team with 5 solved problems, 6 teams with 3 solved problems, 4 teams with 2 solved problems. Most of them solved 1 problem. We consider that the set of problems was enough difficult.
The contest computers were IBM-PCs Pentium Celeron, 32 MB RAM, 6.4 GB HDD, linked by a network and running Windows NT. They were provided by FORTE Computers, Romania. The site of the contest was the main hall of the "Rectorat" building, Politehnica University.
The evaluation of the results and scoring was based on the Personal Computer Programming Contest program (PC2) v6.3, developed at the Computer Science Department, Sacramento, California State University. The use of PC2 permitted a smooth run of the contest and facilitated the activity of judges and runners.
The 42 teams totalled a number of 126 students. There were more than 40 staff members and 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, C++, and Introduction to Visual Age for Java & 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 21 October: Arrival and Check-in
12:00 - 20:00 Teams arrive and report to the Site Coordinator
(Building EF, room EF302)
Friday 22 october: 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
·
Gheorghe
Zgură,
Rector of “Politehnica” University of
Bucharest
·
Horia
Gavrilă,
General Secretary of Ministry of National
Education
·
Oana
Petrescu,
·
Florin
Talpeş,
Vice-President of Romanian Association of Software
Enterprises
·
Sergiu
Iliescu,
President of
National Agency for Communications and Informatics
·
Cristian
Giumale
Chief Judge
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 23 october 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
24 october
09:00 - 13:00 Sightseeing Tour of Bucharest
The contest budget was raised using funds from IBM. FORTE
Computers provided the hardware infrastructure and technical support.
Ministry of National Education through “Politehnica” University of
Bucharest help us with the
accommodation for Romanian Students. ANIS,Romsys,Oracle, Softwin, Glossy, REL
Computers assured the financial support.
Participation in the contest was free of charge. Also, the buffets, the banquet, and the tour of Bucharest were free of charge.
Upon registration, each participant received a contest folder containing:
contest badge, contest rules, contestant's guide for PC2, 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 seemed very excited
about receiving the certificates, especially the volunteers, showing that the
ACM idea of offering certificates was very appreciated.
The day before the Opening Ceremony, IBM Romania organised a press
conference attended by more than 40 journalists from the Romanian mass-media. A
lot of press releases were issued, before and after the contest. Several
newspapers published announcements or presentations of the event. National
Romanian TV transmitted information about contest in the main news
program.
The composition of the Steering Committee
was:
·
Nicolae
Ţăpuş,
Contest Director, Head of the Computer Science and
Engineering Department
·
Gheorghe
Zgură,
Rector of “Politehnica” University of
Bucharest
·
Horia
Gavrilă,
General Secretary of Ministry of National
Education
·
Oana
Petrescu,
IBM Romania
·
Florin
Talpeş,
Vice-President of Romanian Association of Software
Enterprises
·
Sergiu
Iliescu,
President of
National Agency for Communications and Informatics
The composition of the judging staff was:
·
Prof. Cristian
Giumale, Romania, Chief Judge
·
Prof. Lorina
Negreanu, Romania
·
Prof.
Efstathios Zachos, Greece
·
Prof. Dragan
Milicev, Yugoslavia
·
Prof. Vladimir
Mesyura, Ukraine
·
Prof. Krassimir
Manev, Bulgaria
·
Prof. Mykhaylo
Medvedyev, Ukraine
·
Prof. Ozgur
Ulusoy, Turkey
·
Prof. Stanislas
Ovcharov, Bulgaria
·
Prof. Anastas
Misev, Macedonia
We want to express our thanks to Chief Judge Prof. Cristian Giumale, and
to the members of the Judge Team, who have greatly helped us with their
experience in running the contest.
We would also like to express our thanks to ACM and to IBM
Corporation, FORTE Computers, to the Romanian Society for Informatics, to
the Romanian Chapter of ACM, to “Politehnica” University, and to the
local contributors ANIS, Romsys, Oracle, Softwin, Glossy, REL Computer for their
generous support for the ACM Southeastern European Regional Programming Contest.
We want to thank to the network management team leaded by Bogdan
Costinescu from Computer Science and Engineering Department of Politehnica
University.
And last, but not least, we thank all the volunteers who helped run the
contest. Without all these people and organisations, it would have been hardly
possible 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 or
in Varna, Bulgaria.
Prof. Nicolae Tapus
Regional Contest
Director