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The Olympiad is organised by the Ministry of
Education or another appropriate institution of one of the eight Central
European countries.
According to the rules accepted by the initiators
of the CEOI, teams of eight Central European country, i.e. Croatia,
Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic and
Slovenia (suspended), are invited as regular participants. Moreover, the
host country may invite guest participants as well.
The International Committee (IC) of the CEOI
consists of the eight team leaders, and a representative of the host
country, who chairs the meetings of the IC. A host which is willing to
organise a CEOI in a given year in its country, has to announce its
intent at least one year before that CEOI (during the previous CEOI
competition days). Selection of the next host is made by the IC by a
majority vote. Revision of the Regulations of the CEOI is adopted by the
IC by a 2/3 majority vote. Enlarging or decreasing the set of CEOI
countries can only be adopted by consensus.
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The CEOI aims at motivating secondary school
students of Central Europe to :
- get more interested in informatics and information technology in
general,
- test and prove their competence in solving problems with the
help of computers,
- exchange knowledge and experience with other students of similar
interest and qualification,
- establish personal contacts with young people of the Central
European region.
Additionally, the CEOI may :
- provide training for the students participating in the
International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI),
- initiate discussion and co-operation in informatics education in
the secondary schools of the Central European countries.
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Each team is composed of up to four secondary
school students, and a team leader and a deputy team leader. Only the
cost of travel to and from the place of the competition should be paid
by teams; all local expenses are covered by the organisers. Accompanying
persons and observers are welcome, but they should pay for their stay.
Interested people are advised to contact the local organisers.
The official language is English. Students may use
their mother tongue. Programming problems will be formulated in English
and then translated by the team leaders to the mother tongue of their
team. Both versions will be given to the students. Team leaders must be
able to speak and write in English, as well as the language of their
team.
The computers will be IBM PC compatibles with
selected software packages. Only the computers and software with
built-in help facilities provided by the organisers may be used in the
competition. In particular, the use of printed materials will be
forbidden. The programming languages of the contest are Pascal, C and
C++; the precise versions of these languages will be updated each year.
The compilers and programming environments for the above mentioned
programming languages will be installed on the hard disk.
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Students have to be in school during the year when
the contest is held and at most 19 years old. The team leader will be a
member of the General Assembly. Observers and persons accompanying a
delegation have to pay a fee.
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General Assembly (GA) is composed of the team
leaders of the participating countries and the president nominated by
the host country. General Assembly selects problems to be solved in the
competition from a set of problems prepared and proposed by the
Scientific Committee.
The selection procedure is the following:
- The chairperson of the Scientific Committee distributes the
proposals. Their number equals the number of problems to be solved
by the contestants.
- The GA members may either accept or, in case of a major
ambiguity of formulation or other serious reasons, deny the
proposals by voting. When and if a proposal is denied, another
prepared proposal will be offered to the GA. For such cases, the
Scientific Committee should prepare at least two extra proposals for
each round. The text of the accepted proposals must not be changed
by the GA, except for minor rephrasing that is needed to avoid
smaller ambiguities.
- The selected problems will be translated by the team leaders
into the national languages of the teams.
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The Scientific Committee (SC) consists of a
chairperson and a number of experts (SC members) from the host country.
It becomes active well before the beginning of the Olympiad and has the
task of selecting and preparing problem proposals.
A further task of the Scientific Committee is to
test and evaluate the solutions of the contestants.
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The competition consists of two rounds in two
days. In both rounds the working time is five hours and the contestants
will be given one to four problems to solve. The selected problems will
be translated by the team leaders into the national languages of the
teams.
Within the first hour the contestants may submit
written questions (either in English or in their national language) to
the Scientific Committee concerning the formulation and interpretation
of the problems. Only questions that can be answered with 'Yes', 'No' or
'No comment' may be accepted. The answers will be produced by the
members of the Scientific Committee and approved by the chairperson of
the SC as soon as possible.
When the competition ends, each contestant should
prepare his/her solution for the evaluation, according to regulations
issued by the organisers.
No special hardware requirement or software
packages (e.g. graphic packages) will be needed to solve the problems.
The whole communication between the CEOI authorities and contestants
will be in a written form.
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When the working time is over, the solutions of
each of the contestant will be checked by an evaluator, using previously
unpublished test data. The evaluation is based on the test data and the
responses of the programs only.
The evaluation procedure concludes with the
meeting of the Scientific Committee, where the evaluation reports are
discussed. Potential disagreements are dissolved by voting. Achieving a
proper and balanced evaluation is the responsibility of the Scientific
Committee. If a team leader does not accept the results of the
evaluation, he/she may appeal to the General Assembly.
Finally, the president of SC or IC presents the
anonymous results to the General Assembly to take final decisions.
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The General Assembly will determine the minimum
scores for the gold, silver and bronze medals. The proportion of these
gold, silver and bronze medals should be approximately 1:2:3. About 50%
of the contestants should receive medals. Each contestant will receive a
certificate of participation. The medals, certificates and other prizes
will be given to the contestants at the official closing ceremony.
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