ITC 2019 Milestone #1 today

[Tomáš Müller]

Dear Competitors,

Please note that the first milestone deadline is February 1. If you have any solutions already, please upload them on the competition website by the end of the day today.

The reference timezone is UTC-12. That is, as long as there is still some place anywhere in the world where the deadline has not yet passed, you are on time. Here is a simple countdown (I hope it works):

The submission for the milestones is optional and will not affect the final ordering, but you can win a small price. For the final ordering, points are only awarded based on the final submission. That is according to the best solution for each early, middle, and late instance uploaded by November 18, 2019. For more details, please see https://www.itc2019.org.

Please consider uploading your solutions even when you are not able to solve all the early problems yet. So far, we have had solutions uploaded only from a few competitors, so there is still a chance you can win a price.

Best Regards,

Tomas, Hana, and Zuzana

organ...@itc2019.org

PS: There has been a question about how to upload solutions. Here is the procedure:

1. On the ITC 2019 website (https://www.itc2019.org), you need to log in first and go to the Validation page.

2. Here, you need to validate your solution first (choose the solution XML file and click the Validate button). The page may take a bit of time to respond as it needs to upload the XML file and validate it. Please note that the file needs to be in the solution XML format with the instance name matching the name of the instance for which the solution was created.

3. If all goes well and the solution is valid (all classes are assigned and there was no issue was found with student class enrollments), the Upload solution form appears below the solution properties. The parameters are pre-populated with the data from the XML file, so all you need to do is to hit the Upload button and you should get a confirmation afterward (you can also change the solution parameters here or later on the My solutions page).

4. Now you can continue with the next solution (by choosing a file and hitting the Validate button again). Also, you should see your uploaded solutions on the My solutions page.