2015年第九届IEEEXtreme极限编程全球大赛

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IEEE美国电子与电气工程师协会

赛制安排

Registration：2015年08月17日 00时00分 ——2015年10月12日 23时59分

      Registration will be open between 17 August 2015 and 12 October 2015 (00:00:00 UTC). Teams can find registration information at http://www.ieee.org/xtreme

参赛对象及要求

Participants must compete as part of a team. Teams are comprised of up to 3 IEEE student or graduate student members, but should only include a maximum of 2 graduate student members per team. All team members must be IEEE student or graduate student members to register and compete in the competition. IEEE Membership numbers are required during the registration process. Universities and Colleges can have multiple teams. Each team must have a proctor who will supervise during the 24-hour programming competition. Team members must solve and complete the problems without assistance from others. Please note that the intent and spirit of the competition is for the students, not others, to solve a problem. Persons acting as proctor must limit the level of support and must not contribute in any other form that might be considered original authorship, or in any way that may enable claims of rights or ownership to the submitted entries. In no case will work-on-behalf of teams or individuals be allowed. Void where prohibited by Federal Law.

奖项设置

奖项类别名称

1st place：The winning team members will receive an expenses-paid trip to an IEEE conference of their choice, anywhere around the world. Roundtrip coach airline tickets for each winner from winner’s preferred major metropolitan airport to the conference destination, conference registration fees, and a three night hotel stay (confirmation pending) will be provided by IEEE for winning team members.

2nd place：Each member of the team that wins 2nd place in the IEEEXtreme 9.0 competition will receive an iPad Air.

3rd place：Each member of the team that wins 3rd place in the IEEEXtreme 9.0 competition will receive an iPad Mini.

4 th -10th place：Each member of the 4th through 10th place teams in the IEEEXtreme 9.0 competition will receive a Raspberry Pi computer.

Top 100： All members of teams that place in the top 100 at the end of the competition will receive a special edition IEEEXtreme 9.0 gift bundle, including a reserved IEEEXtreme “Top Coder” t-shirt and a valuable “Essential Studio Enterprise Edition” license for a comprehensive development suite V1.0 ~ 8 ~ that includes 650+ components across multiple platforms. This gift is courtesy of our sponsorship partner Syncfusion.

其他

Venue
As IEEEXtreme is a virtual online competition, a physical location, or venue, must be identified for participants to use during the 24-hour competition. Venues can be in an IEEE Student Branch office or a college lab or another location on campus. It must be a place that participants can use for the entire 24 hours during the competition and should be equipped with at least one computer and some type of connection to the internet. A proctor must be physically located within the venue at all times throughout the 24-hour competition.

Proctors
Each team must have a proctor to supervise competition activities. Proctors must be an IEEE Member of higher membership grade. Student or Graduate Student Members are not allowed to proctor IEEEXtreme but are encouraged to participate as a team member in the competition. Proctor information (IEEE Member Number) is required during the registration process. Student Branch Counselors or Department Chairs make great Proctors as they are all higher grade IEEE members. Many IEEE Young Professionals are also higher grade IEEE members and may be eligible to serve as proctors. Teams may want to recruit two or more proctors so that one can take a break to rest during the 24 hour competition. Proctor tasks include:  Monitor the general flow of the activity  Inform students when the competition begins, at the middle of it, when there are 6 hours left and when there is 1 hour left  Ensure that no one external to the team members helps or assists the student participants in resolving the problems in any way  Responsible for the receipt and distribution of prizes for student teams If you need assistance in finding a proctor, please consult our Guide on Finding a Proctor (PDF). Please note: A Proctor can support up to 8 student teams and all of the competition participants under an individual proctor’s supervision must compete in the same venue. For more information on venue, see the following section.

Student Branch Activity
Student Branches, if able, should support and help to the participating teams, helping locate an appropriate venue for use during the competition, promoting the competition, assisting in identifying appropriate proctors, and increasing awareness of the student branch presence on campus. Students attending universities who do not have an IEEE student branch on campus can still participate in the IEEEXtreme competition. This is an opportunity to bring students together to have fun with IEEE activities. Consider using this opportunity as a way to form a student branch. More information on how to form a student branch can be found here.

Problems
Problems are developed and judged by expert programmers. The panel of judges is made up of higher grade IEEE members from both Academia and Industry backgrounds. Problems will be categorized as easy, moderate, difficult, advanced, and Xtreme to allow for students of all experience levels to participate. All of the problems can be answered in any of the supported languages, which are indicated in the table below. The time and memory limits will apply to problems, unless otherwise specified in the problem definition. Sample problems from previous competitions can be found at: http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/students/awards/xtremesamples.html. A demo practice contest community can be found at: https://www.hackerrank.com/contests/ieeextreme-challenges/challenges.

Problem Submission
Teams should submit their problem solutions electronically using the contest management tool. Instructions on access and utilization of the contest management tool will be provided to teams after registration closes. The 2015 contest problems will be available the day of the contest.

Supported Browsers
The browsers that are supported to run IEEEXtreme 8.0 are as follows:  Chrome v 44  Firefox v 39  IE 11 Please consult each browser's Web site for more information on updates.

Selection of Winners
Winners are determined strictly based on overall score as determined by the scoring outlined above. As noted above, in the case of a tie, time will be considered as a factor to rank teams.

Notification of Winners and Final Rankings
From the close of the competition through 31 October the IEEEXtreme Technical team will be evaluating code submissions. IEEE reserves the right to disqualify a team if it’s found to have manipulated or cheated during the competition. The official results will be communicated on or about 2 November. Winners will be contacted by IEEE directly.

Requirements of Winners
IEEE may, within its sole discretion, require each prize winner to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility and liability and publicity release, in which each winner consents to the use of his or her name, age, hometown and photo by IEEE for advertising and promotional purposes, without any additional compensation, wherever lawful, as a precondition to award of a prize. If any prize winner fails to sign and return the requested affidavit of eligibility and liability/public release as requested by IEEE, that winner may be disqualified, and his or her prize will thereafter be awarded to an alternate winner from the remaining valid entries using the criteria specified above. IEEE may also require each winner to assign all rights in any submission that is chosen as a winner to IEEE as a precondition to award of a prize. If any prize winner fails to assign all rights in the selected submission to IEEE, the winner may be disqualified, and his or her prize will thereafter be awarded to an alternate winner from the remaining valid entries using the criteria specified above. All prizes, including the travel arrangements for first place winners, must be claimed within one calendar year of the competition.