Tomáš Müller
Dear competitors,
Thank you for working on the competition and uploading your solutions on the competition website for the second milestone. We are pleased to announce the winners of the second milestone.
1st place (73 points)
Edon Gashi, Kadri Sylejmani
University of Prishtina, Kosovo
2nd place (69 points)
Dennis Holm, Rasmus Ørnstrup Mikkelsen, Matias Sørensen, Thomas Stidsen
MaCom, Denmark
3rd place (61 points)
Karim Er-rhaimini
Ministère de l'éducation nationale, France
The points have been awarded using the F1-like schema for the early instances, as described in our Rules (see Rule 10 for more details). Here are the total costs of the best solution for each of the early instances:
Instance | Total cost |
agh-fis-spr17 | 6,030 |
agh-ggis-spr17 | 49,901 |
bet-fal17 | 301,725 |
iku-fal17 | 19,080 |
mary-spr17 | 14,927 |
muni-fi-spr16 | 4,112 |
muni-fsps-spr17 | 5,601 |
muni-pdf-spr16c | 74,186 |
pu-llr-spr17 | 10,046 |
tg-fal17 | 4,215 |
Congratulations! The award ceremony will be held at the PATAT 2020 conference in Bruges, Belgium in August 2020.
Please note that the participation or placements in the second milestone have no effect on the final placements. 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.
There are more prizes to win and still plenty of time to work on your solver and to compete. The middle and late datasets will be released on September 18, 2019, and November 8, 2019, respectively and the competition will conclude on November 18, 2019. Besides the prizes for the finals (that are 1000 EUR, 500 EUR, and 250 EUR for the first, the second, and the third place respectively), there will also be a prize for the best solution for each of the 10 late instances (150 EUR per instance). And there will also be a cash price of 500 USD for the best open source solver. See www.itc2019.org for more details.
Best Regards,
Tomas, Hana, and Zuzana