AITEC NEWS No.13

	September 24, 1997
	Issue #13 (issued on Sep.19,1997 in Japanese)

Special Issue for the KLIC Programming Contest #3

Please visit KLIC Programming Contest page for the contest details.

INDEX

Introduction
How To Organize Your Program
Details of how to organize your program and document
About the environments needed to run your program
Message From The Editorial Desk

INTRODUCTION

Dear Readers,

Have you already finished your entry to the KLIC Programming Contest?

The contest is open to anyone who wishes to enter. As soon as you enter, we will send detailed information about the contest by email. Even if you are not sure you can really submit a program, please enter anyway.

In order to allow for as many entries as possible, we have postponed the "Deadline for ENTRY," from September 30 (Tue) to October 13 (Mon). We are looking forward to your entry.

In addition to the special KLIC Programming Contest issues of AITEC NEWS No. 10 and No. 12, we would like to send you more information on the contest in this issue.

Have you tried "Solitaire Poker," the subject in the sequential environment? We received some comments that it was a little difficult. So, for your programming aids, we have added an evaluation program for 'Solitaire Poker.' You can ftp it from here (for non-frame browser users, please ftp it from here).
We hope it will make your programming easier and help you enjoy programming!

Also, we revised 'the program for hand evaluation' for the sequential environment on September 2. Please check it on the AITEC Homepage.

Now, we show you the application details in the following articles.

HOW TO ORGANIZE YOUR PROGRAM AND DOCUMENT

1. Details of how to organize your program and document

Your program and document should be sent to us by email during the period from October 1, 1997 to October 31, 1997.

The email message should be organized as follows:

The destination address should be "klic-contest@icot.or.jp".
The Subject of the email should be "KLIC Contest."
The body of the email should include the following information:
- a. Please specify "Application for KLIC Programming Contest" as the title at the top.
- b. Your name*
- c. Your affiliation*
- d. Your address*
- e. Your telephone number*
- f. Your email address*
- g. Please specify the category you are applying for, namely, the sequential environment, parallel environment, or free subject.

(* If you apply as a group, please specify the leader's name, affiliation, telephone number and email address.)

In the body of the email, after these seven items, please put the files specified below into one directory and compress it by "tar", "gzip (or compress)" or "uuencode."

(If the compressed file is more than approximately 500KB, please inform the secretariat.)

1) Explanation or Manual of your program

Please write explanatory documents or manuals for your program either in Japanese or English. They should be saved as plain text or in HTML. (It should be readable on a viewer.) Please name the file "README" or "README.html".

Please include the following items in your document or manual:

For all categories:

a. General explanation of program's function, behavior etc.
b. Descriptions of the system that you use for hand evaluation of a program (types, OS, etc.)
c. Roughly elapsed time to generate the answer(s) using the test data you attach with it
d. Algorithm, points you specially think out
e. Others (ex. your requests on the KLIC system, KL1 language)

For Category 3 (Free Subject)

a. Program name
b. General explanation of program's function, behavior etc.
c. Environments needed to run your program (hardware, OS, language)

If you need to use figures or pictures, please convert them into the "gif" format and put them into a sub-directory named "readme.dir".

If you use links in HTML documents, their references should be directed to the files in the directory "readme.dir." The HTML version should be 2.0 or newer.

Note: Please do not mention programmer names in program sources.
It may be cause for a demerit mark in the judgment.

2) File names of source programs

Make a list of all the source file names and put it in a file named "SOURCES".

Please write one source file name per line. For example, if you have two source files, foo.kl1 and bar.kl1, then your "SOURCES" file should contain two lines as follows:

foo.kl1

bar.kl1

Note:

If your program cannot be installed by the command "klic *.kl1" for linking some libraries, for example, please arrange a file such as "makefile" which can generate an executable object file. In this case, please add a document regarding the installation procedure to the item 3) described below with the name "INSTALL"(or "INSTALL.html").

3) Source program files

You may divide your source program into as many files as you need. If you apply to the free subject category and have some test data, please name the file "test.data" and include it with these files.

An example of an APPLICATION FORMAT

**************************************************************************
a. Application for KLIC Programming Contest
b. Ken AITEC
c. Research Institute for Advanced Information Technology
d. 2F, Shiba-Tokyo Kaijo-Bldg., 2-3-3 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105, Japan
e. 03-3456-3191
f. sentan@icot.or.jp
g. Category: sequential environment
   --encoded files--
********EXAMPLE***********************************************************

2. About the environments needed to run your program

The environments needed to run your program at AITEC are as follows:

1)KLIC version

The KLIC version should be 3.001 or newer.

2) Sequential environment

A UNIX workstation: On execution, option -H4M is recommended to give the maximum heap size.
The OS is SUN OS 4.1.3. and JLE 1.1.3

3) Parallel environment

A SparcCenter 2000:
SuperSparc 40MHz, secondary cache is 1MB.
Main memory is 1311 MB.
Maximum number of worker processes will be 16.
The OS is Solaris 2.3.

MESSAGE FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK

We have published the latest KLIC Programming Contest information in this issue. You can check the newest information on the AITEC Homepage, too. (http://www.icot.or.jp) Also, we will send email to those who enter the contest. We wait for your entry.

Please refer to the AITEC Homepage for detailed information regarding ENTRY. You can also make an entry on the Hompage.

If you have any questions about the contest, please contact us at klic-contest@icot.or.jp.

Challenge your programming skill in the KLIC Programming Contest!


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