OPTIL.io

### Genomic Matching Contest
#### Contest Rules

Evaluation as a Service (EaaS), in brief, is defined as a paradigm of keeping the evaluation data in the cloud and allowing to access them via dedicated interfaces<sup>1</sup>. Optil.io<sup>2</sup> is an online judge platform following EaaS concept that allows the users from all over the world to continuously and reliably evaluate the algorithmic solutions of complex optimization problems and to organize specific science- and industry-inspired challenges. By hiding the test cases from the participants and providing the homogeneous, cloud-based runtime environment, we provide an objective method for assessment of various algorithms, submitted by the users, solving optimization problems.

1. Each participant is responsible to submit an original solution to the problem (having intellectual property rights to it) through the Optil.io platform. The submission deadline is the end of **31st July 2022** UTC.
2. The results of the contest will be announced on the Optil.io website on **07th August 2022**.
3. Every participant that submits the solution during the contest will be included in a final ranking. However, only contestants who are **students or phd students of Poznań University of Technology** are eligible for winning monetary prizes. The prize will be payed as a payment for the intellectual property rights to the source code of a solution. 
4. Each solution has to be submitted by a single participant, who will receive a monetary prize in case of winning the contest.
5. Each participant is eligible to receive only one award. If a single user would receive multiple prizes only the highest will be awarded. The following prizes will be passed to the next participants.
6. 7 prizes will be awarded:
* 1st prize for the first task (**100 PLN**).
* 1st prize for the second task (**250 PLN**).
* 2nd prize for the second task (**150 PLN**).
* 3rd prize for the second task (**50 PLN**).
* 1st prize for the third task (**250 PLN**).
* 2nd prize for the third task (**150 PLN**).
* 3rd prize for the third task (**50 PLN**).
7. All submitted solutions will be assessed by the optil.io platform and ranked according the the following criteria:
* value of an objective function - the score,
* the execution time - summed up times of executons on all testcases.
8. To participate in the contest one has to:
* [Create an account](https://www.optil.io/optilion/user/create) on Optil.io platform.
* Accept the rules that govern this contest using the online form - [should be a link here][https://www.optil.io/].
* Submitting at least one solution to one of the problems.
10. By accepting these rules the participant accepts also [Terms and Conditions](https://www.optil.io/optilion/genomicmatching/terms) of the contest. 
11. Any questions should be sent directly to artur.laskowski [at] cs.put.poznan.pl with topic starting with [GenomicMatchingContest].
12. The contest is organized by:
* Artur Laskowski, Poznan University of Technology

[1] Hanbury, Allan, et al. *"Evaluation-as-a-Service: Overview and outlook"*, [arXiv:1512.07454](https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.07454), 2015.

[2] Wasik, Szymon, et al. *"Optil. io: Cloud Based Platform For Solving Optimization Problems Using Crowdsourcing Approach"*, Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Companion, [doi:10.1145/2818052.2869098](http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2869098), 433-436, ACM, 2016.

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