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• 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

Challenge Subject

The problem retained for the ROADEF'2005 challenge is the Car Sequencing problem.

The detailed definition of the problem can be found below:

• Files of the description of the problem in three formats (Postscript, RTF, MSWord) (ATTENTION: subject updated on October 12th, 2003)
• Files of one example data instance for one scenario per class (i.e. a total of three scenari) provided in the zip format (instance_039_ch1_s26_mar.zip, instance_048_ch2_s25_mar.zip, instance_064_ch2_s24_mar.zip)
• Files of the data instance set A in two formats (Instances_set_A.tar.gz, Instances_set_A.zip) (created on October 10th, 2003)
• Files of the data instance set B in two formats (Instances_set_B.tar.gz, Instances_set_B.zip) (updated on July 15th, 2004)
• Files of the data instance set X in two formats (Instances_set_X.tar.gz, Instances_set_X.zip) updated on March 16th, 2005)

Important remarks:

• It is compulsory to respect the formats of the data and result files.
• Solution checking tools (checkers.tar.gz or checkers.zip) are now available to help the candidates.

• New checkers with the new coefficients 1000000, 1000 and 1 (Windows: exeCarSeq.exe, Linux: exeCarSeq) (created on July 15th, 2004)
• This subject is provided by RENAULT for the use in the context of this challenge and for research purpose, RENAULT reserves the right to bring minor modifications to the subject if it is necessary.