The 9th Prolog Programming Contest !
Took place at the occasion
of ICLP'2003
In hectic Mumbay, India.
On Tuesday 9 December, 2003, from 14 till 16 at D Block Conference room.
The winning team consisted of
Peter Stuckey (now 5 times in a winning team)
Christian Schulte (already twice in a winning team)
Vitaly Lagoon (a newcomer with a big future)
The winning team solved 4 questions out of 5.
Second team was once more a Belgian team
from Leuven, consisting of
Tom Schrijvers
Remko Troncon
Ruben Vandeginste
Comment from Peter Stuckey:
It becomes more and more difficult to win:
these young guys are closing in rapidly
Third came in the team of
Michael Codish
Fred Mesnard
Alexander Serebrenik
Both these teams also solved 4 problems, but
they took more time.
Three teams solved 3 questions, 3 teams solved 2 and 2 teams solved
1 problem.
In total 33 people participated, in 11 teams.
The contest Prolog system was this time SWI-Prolog.
The problems were widely perceived as easy: click here
for the problems.
It was fun and the local organisation was impeccable: thanks to Anbu,
Sachin and Shyam.
The WEB version of the contest
4 teams submitted solutions
ended first: the team consisting of
Bernhard Pfahringer
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato
He solved all 5 problems correctly.
Congratulations !
Bernhard won the web version also 2 years ago.
ended second: the team with just
Peter Vanbroekhoven
Dept. Computer Science, Leuven, Belgium
Peter also solved all 5 problems, but
submitted later than Bernhard - congratulations !
Submitted 5 solutions, but got spanspid not completely ok, the team:
Stavros Papadakis, Konstantinos Spyropoulos and Silvana
Zappacosta
from Imperial College of London
Submitted 4 (not spanspid) and got these 4 all right, the team with only
Jean-Marc Coutin
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
He was only marginally slower than the third team.
Well done all of you - we hope you liked it.
Maybe till next year at or during ICLP'04
Bart Demoen and Phuong-Lan Nguyen