2013 Australian Programming Contest
AUPC-2013
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New Zealand Programming Contest 17 August 2013
Australian Programming Contest 7 September 2013
South Pacific Programming Contest 21 September 2013
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Contest Locations
Teams can participate in one of the following locations where they will
- receive a hardcopy of the problem set
- get a login/password to the contest environment
- get access to a computer for the development of their solutions
and submitting them to the judging system.
Note the different local times for start of the contest for the purpose
of same start time across multiple time zones.
*- 02:00 (P.M.) Auckland Michael J. Dinneen (Auck)
* Chirstchurch Richard Lobb (UC)
* Dunedin David Eyers (Otago)
*- 12 (noon) Brisbane Malcolm Corney (QUT)
* Sydney Vincent Gramoli (SydU)
Tom Bozic (UTS)
* Melbourne Xiaodong Li (RMIT)
*- 10:00 (A.M.) Perth Tim French (UWA)
* 10:00 (A.M.) Manila Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo (ADMU Ateneo de_Manila University)
*- 04:00 (A.M.) Egypt Abdel-Rahman Mostafa (AAST)
Contest Rules
Team Composition
** A representative of the sponsoring Austrealina institution of higher
education, typically a faculty member, must serve as the team coach.
The coach certifies the eligibility of contestants and serves as the
point-of-contact with the team prior to and during contest activities.
A team may only have one coach.
Each team that consists of three contestants and satisfies the following
eligibility rules:
1. contestants are students enrolled in a degree program at the sponsoring
institution with at least a half-time load. This rule is not to
be construed as disqualifying co-op students, exchange students,
or students serving internships.
2. A student must not have completed her/his High School more than five
years ago.
3. team has been enrolled through the official ICPC web site
http://icpc.baylor.edu/regionals/finder/aupc-2013
is qualified for the AUPC championship or one of the
prizes. A student who FIRST began post-secondary studies in 2008 or earlier
is not eligible to being a member of a qualified team.
** Frequently asked Questions:
Q: can a student change teams for the South Pacific Programming Contest?
A: Yes. AUPC and SPPC are different contests.
Q: can teams from outside Australia participate?
A: yes. Teams can register in http://icpc.baylor.edu/regionals/finder/aupc-2013
under the "Guests" site and participate in any of the above mentioned
supervised locations.
Q: can teams with students not satisfying one or more of the above conditions
participate in AUPC?
A: yes. But they will not qualify for the championship or one of the prizes.
Q: can more than one team from the same institution win a cash prize?
A: No, unless we run out of eligible teams from other institutions.
more will be added, if necessary.
Scoring of the AUPC Contest
A problem is solved when it is accepted by the judges. The judges are
solely responsible for accepting or rejecting submitted runs.
The Contest Organizers are empowered to adjust for or adjudicate
unforeseen events and conditions. Their decisions are final.
The total time for a team is the sum of the time consumed
for each problem solved. The time consumed for a solved problem is the
time elapsed from the beginning of the contest to the submittal of the
accepted run plus 20 penalty minutes for every rejected run for that
problem regardless of submittal time.
There is no time added for a problem that is not solved.
Teams are ranked according to the most problems solved.
Teams who solve the same number of problems are ranked by least total time.
AUPC Contest Environment/Conduct
DOMJudge will be used as the system for judging and display of scoreboard.
Never used it before? do not you worry, you only need a browser to view
a demo in http://domjudge.sourceforge.net/demo.
Press the "documentation" button and read the "team manual". It is not
long and has a lot of pictures.
The programming languages of the AUPC only include Java, C, and C++.
Submissions in Python/C# are allowed and will be judged for teams with no interest
prizes or the AUPC championship.
A team that submits a solution in Python/C#, regardless of whether it
has been accepted or rejected, will be automatically disqualified from
winning the AUPC championship or any of the prizes.
But the team's rank on the contest scoreboard will NOT be affected.
You have been warned!
A team's submission will be compiled, run on judge's data with a judgement
communicated back to the team. Judge's decision is one of those listed
in http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~elgindyh/AuPC/messages.pdf
Each team will use a single workstation provided by the contest organizer.
No other electronic devices or storage media are permitted.
A single hardcopy of the problems will be made available for each team.
Contestants are not allowed to touch their allocated computer, nor the problem
set, until the start of the contest.
Contestants may bring ONLY printed materials for use during the contest.
At least six problems will be posed. So far as possible, problems will avoid
dependence on detailed knowledge of a particular application area or particular
contest language.
The contest runs for 5 consecutive hours.