Selection Criteria

The two following selection criteria will be used to judge the performance of the programs submitted:

  • Quality of the obtained solutions compared to the provided ones,
  • Total execution time spent to find the solutions.

Important remark: Each run should not exceed one hour and times should be provided by precising the processor type, its clock frequency and the amount of memory used

The basic reference machine is a PC Pentium Pro 200Mhz with 64Mbytes of memory.

Feel free to contact the challenge organizer if you have any questions.