Tomáš Müller
Dear competitors,
Thank you for working on the competition and uploading your solutions on the competition website for the first milestone. We are pleased to announce the winners of the first milestone.
1st place (94 points)
Edon Gashi, Kadri Sylejmani
University of Prishtina, Kosovo
2nd place (69 points)
Karim Er-rhaimini
Ministère de l'éducation nationale, France
3rd place (32 points)
Marlúcio Alves Pires, Haroldo Gambini Santos, Túlio Ângelo Machado Toffolo
Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brasil
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 | 7,419 |
agh-ggis-spr17 | 75,123 |
bet-fal17 | 324,294 |
iku-fal17 | 74,335 |
mary-spr17 | 26,745 |
muni-fi-spr16 | 6,918 |
muni-fsps-spr17 | 25,526 |
muni-pdf-spr16c | 97,898 |
pu-llr-spr17 | 34,962 |
tg-fal17 | 8,990 |
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 first milestone have no effect on the next milestone or 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 second milestone is due June 1, 2019. The middle and late datasets will be released on September 18, 2019 and November 8, 2019 respectively. The competition will conclude on November 18, 2019.
Besides of the prizes for each of the two milestones (that are 300 EUR, 200 EUR, and 100 EUR for the first, the second and the third place respectively), and 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
organ...@itc2019.org