RUBRIQUES

• ROADEF Challenge 2003
• Challenge Subject
• How to Participate?
• Challenge organizer commitee
• Challenge Prizes
• Preliminary list of participants
• Participants of the qualification stage
• Evaluation procedure of the qualification stage
• Results of the qualification stage
• Preliminary numerical results of the qualification stag
• Results of the final stage (base X) of the challenge
• News
• FAQ
• Acknowledgements
• Photos

OUT OF COMPETITION FEATURES

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ROADEF'2003: News

Recent modifications

• 12/06/02: Creation of the english pages.
  
  
• 12/06/02: The subject in french has been broadcasted from 08/04/02, but the subject has been sligthly modified and broadcasted again at the same time of the english version today.
  
  
• 18/06/02: Minor modifications on the presentation of WEB pages.
  
  
• 26/06/02: Minor corrections of the mistakes and misspellings of the English pages.
  
  
• 29/07/02: Preliminary list of particpants created.
  
  
• 30/07/02:
  • the name of the solution checker under DOS has been renamed
    this correction could be found in ReadMe_110702.txt and, Challenge_110702.zip or Challenge_110702.tar.gz
  • updating deadlines in progress...
• 02/08/02:
• • minor correction of the preliminary list of participants
  • corrections of an inconsistency in the index notations and of a description error in the optimization cost in the formal description (the corrected version is in formal_020802.pdf), but the data instances, the solutions, the results and the solution checker are correct and thus stay unchanged.
  • final version of How to participate ?
• 29/08/02: Since several questions have been asked, the answers and corrections can be found in the FAQ.
  
  
• 25/09/02: Other answers and corrections are in the FAQ.
  
  
• 14/10/02: Minor modification of the list of participants, the British Telecom team moves from Junior to Senior category.
  
  
• 16/10/02: Modification in the composition of the Junior team of Ecole des Mines de Nantes.
  
  
• 17/10/02: Precisions on the polygons are in the FAQ.
  
  
• 23/10/02: Modification in the composition of the canadian Senior team of B. Jaumard and M. Gendreau.
  
  
• 26/12/02:
  • Creation of the list of participants of the qualification stage (November 18th, 2002) and the synthesis of the numerical results provided by the participants at this stage.
  • Timetable of the challenge modified and adapted to the extra delay of the results of the qualification stage.
• 15/01/03: Results of the qualification stage are available!
  
  
• 17/01/03: The data instances of the TestSet B are now available (TestSetB.tar.gz or TestSetB.zip), the solutions of reference will be provided as soon as possible.
  
  
• 29/01/03:
  • The TestSetB reference solutions and their values are available (cf. main WEB page).
  • The evaluation procedure of the qualification stage is available (cf. main WEB page).
  • A new deadline has been fixed to Monday February 3rd, 2003 midnight for the submission of the improved programs.
• 26/03/03: Are now available -
  • the Test Set X data instances,
  • the final ranking and the details of the final stage results,
  • and some pictures of the challenge during the ROADEF'2003 conference in Avignon.