FEATURES

• ROADEF Challenge 2005
• Challenge Subject
• How to Participate and Planning
• Challenge Organizing Committee
• Challenge Prizes
• List of the participants of the qualification stage
• Results of the qualification stage and lists of the qualified teams
• Selections to the ROADEF'2005 conference
• Final evaluation procedure, results and rankings
• FAQ
• News
• Pictures of the visit of the RENAULT factory in DOUAI on February 10th, 2005
• Pictures of the presentations and the prices ceremony at the ROADEF2005 conference : 2005-02-14
• Pictures of the presentations and the prices ceremony at the ROADEF2005 conference : 2005-02-15

OUT OF COMPETITION FEATURES

• Industrial continuation
• Academic continuation
• Revival

ROADEF'2005: News

Recent modifications

• 28/07/03: Creation of the english pages.
  
  
• 10/10/03:
  • minor modifications on the subject (emphasized in red in the new documents)
  • data instance set A is on line
  • answers to some candidates' questions (see FAQ)
  Please to refer to the Challenge subject to retrieve the new files.
  
  
• 12/10/03:
  • FAQ updated
  • minor modifications on the subject to meet the data set A description
• Please to refer to the Challenge subject to retrieve the new files.
  
  
• 26/11/03:
  • Solution checkers are on line (see Challenge subject)
  • FAQ updated (more answers)
• 27/11/03: FAQ updated (more informations on the checkers and on the data set A)
  
  
• 17/02/04:
  • On the WEB the list of the participants of the qualification stage
  • checkers.tar.gz corrected and updated on the WEB site.
    This files did contain CR characters making the checker under Linux behaved badly. checkers.zip is correct from the beginning and is not concerned by this problem if unzip -a is used to extract files under Linux.
  • FAQ updated (more details on the submission procedure and on the evaluation of the qualification stage, more answers to various questions).
  • Deadline of the qualification stage extended to March 07th, 2004 included.
  • RENAULT prizes are under transfer to ROADEF.
  • Two new Jury members are added:
    • Christian ARTIGUES (Combinatorial Optimization)
    • Chu Min LI (Constrained Programming).
  • 18/02/04:
    • A new jury member forgotten on the 17/02/04 updates: Bernard PENZ (Operations Research)
    • FAQ updated (detail on the computing time)
    • Minor modification on the list of the participants of the qualification stage (name changed in a team)
• 18/05/04: Results of the qualification stage on the WEB.
  
  
• 21/05/04: Add the results of all categories results on the WEB and some explanations on student travel expense supports for the Junior teams (see (5)).
  
  
• 25/05/04: List of programs which have a weird behavior on the unknown data instance and this data instance is now available (see (4)).
  
  
• 27/05/04: New remark on the unknow data instance (see end of (4)).
  
  
• 31/05/04: New rankings avec an improved evaluation function (see (6)).
  
  
• 17/06/04: Data instance set B is on line (see Challenge subject).
  
  
• 15/07/04:
  • Fixe 0/0 and 1/1 ratios in the files ratios.txt of the data instance set B
    One just need to replace in the checker directory the file exeCarSeq.exe (for Windows) or exeCarSeq (for Linux)
  • New checkers with the new coefficients 1000000, 1000 and 1
  Please to refer to the Challenge subject to retrieve the new files.
  
  
• 13/02/05:
  • List of candidates selected for a presentation at the ROADEF'2005 conference
  • Some pictures of the visit of the RENAULT factory in DOUAI on February 10th, 2005
• 10/03/05:
  • Add all the final results and rankings on the WEB with the final evaluation procedure adopted by the jury
  • Data instance set X is on line (see Challenge subject).
  • Available on line the pictures of the challenge presentations at the ROADEF2005 conference: day 2005-02-14 and day 2005-02-15
• 11/03/05: More pictures of the challenge at the conference dinner 2005-02-15 provided by the Junior team of University of Poznan (thanks to Grzegorz PAWLAK)
  
  
• 16/03/05: Update the names of two data instances X (see Challenge subject).