The 4th NAPROCK International Programmming Contest

Introduction

NAPROCK international programming contest(NAPROCK Procon) will be held in commemoration of 23rd Kosen Procon. Students learning at Technical Colleges or Universities can make use of everyday learning and compete with ideas in information processing technology. There are three branches Themed section, Original section, and Competition. The challenge is to make full use of recent information processing technology that continues developing. Incomplete applications will be accepted, but possible usefulness and real world applications will be considered in the contest. This Kosen Procom contest aims to promote flexibility of thinking through programming, at a very high level. To date high evaluations have been obtained for each field represented. This contest also attracts a national audience through NHK’s educational broadcasting. It is promoted as a creative educational project. As there is participation by overseas teams, this contest also fosters international exchanges in the field of information processing technology. We are waiting for enthusiastic applications from many technical college and university students.

Competition Section

Count the Dice

Introduction

Given a heap of dice, players should count the number of dice early and exactly by using the computers and the electronic devices like digital cameras. Image analysis is a technology composed of various complicated tasks such as finding, identifying and counting objects by image processing techniques. Such a technology has been applied to many areas, for example, manufacturing, medical cares, and observation of natural phenomena or natural objects. Computers can be utilized in order to realize our comvenient life, and to solve the difficult and complicated problems. You, students have skills, and computers as well. Here are a huge number of dice. So, let's count the dice!

Sponsors

• Main Sponsor
  NAPROCK (Nourishment Association for Programming Contest KOSEN) non profit organization(NPO)
• Co-sponsor
  • Technical College Association
• Supporters
  • Toshiba Solutions Corporation
  • Nextware Ltd. (other supporters to be confirmed)
• Supervising School
  • Ariake National College of Technology
• Secretariat
  • NAPROCK non-profit organization (NPO)
• Programming Contest Homepage
  • Official site: http://naprock.jp/IntProcon/
  • Kosen-PROCON official site: http://www.procn.gr.jp/
• Judging committee
  • Chairperson
    • Prof. Yasuko Kaminuma (Information Processing Society of Japan Fellow)
  • Committee member
    • Dr. Shiro Usui (RIKEN BSJ)
    • Prof. Kyoji Umemura (Toyohashi University of Technology)
    • Prof. Hajime Ohiwa (Soai University)
    • Prof. Teruo Matsuzawa (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
    • Akinobu Saneshige(NHK)
    • Chikara Miyaji (JISS)
    • Prof. Yasunori Sugita (Nagaoka University of Technology)
    • Ryoya Mori(Toshiba Solution)

and the planning company examination committees on behalf of cooperation

Dates and Location for NAPROCK invited team

NAPROCK2012/Dates and Location for NAPROCK invited team

Important Dates for NAPROCK invited team

• June 30 Submission Deadline of Initial registration Form
• June 25 – July 23 Official entry
• July 31 Submission dealine if participants’ information
• August 31 Submission deadline of the manuscript for the original guidebook
• September 24 Submission deadline of the developed software and other documents
• October 13-14 Programming contest

Location

Omuta Cultural Center(Omuta, Fukuoka, Japan)

Dates and Location for KOSEN invited team

Important Dates for KOSEN invited team

• July 23 Submission Deadline of Initial registration Form and official entry
• July 31 Submission dealine if participants’ information
• August 31 Submission deadline of the manuscript for the original guidebook
• September 24 Submission deadline of the developed software and other documents
• October 13-14 Programming contest

Location

Omuta Cultural Center(Omuta, Fukuoka, Japan)

Qualification Requirements

All students of Japanese technical colleges who submit an application during the on-line registration period, (including advanced course students)

Collection section

(Please check the details on the programming contest official homepage)

@Number of teams per technical college

• Themed section: Maximum 2 teams (members per team 2-5 persons)
• Original section: Maximum 2 teams (members per team 2-5 persons)
• Competition: Maximum 1 team (members per team 2-3 persons)

Please subscribe one project per team.

Duplicate registration of a student is forbidden.

That is, the same student cannot belong to two or more teams.

The combined team by the student of plural schools isn’t recognized.

A student cannot change his/her registration from one section to another e.g. from Themed section to Original section.
Change of a registrant after preliminary passage is accepted about a Competition. However, change of an instruction teacher cannot be accepted.

About an entry

Please apply with software that is executable with PCs, and that is possible for the demonstration and presentation in the final contest or competition.

Examination Method

Themed Section and Original Section
The presentation and demonstration will be examined synergistically. The frame of reference of the examination is originality, technical capabilities of systems development, usefulness, ease of use, manual/documentation preparation, speech and presentation skills, etc. The operations manual and program source list will also be graded. Participating teams must submit an operations manual and a program source list at 12 Oct. 2012 .

Competition Section
A confrontation game will determine victory or defeat.

Award

In the Themed Section and the Original Section, the following prizes will be awarded.

Grand Prize	1 team	A Certificate of Merit and an extra prize
Second Prize	1 team	A Certificate of Merit and an extra prize
Special Prize	a few team	A Certificate of Merit and an extra prize​

The following prizes are awarded in the competition.

Grand Prize	1 team	A Certificate of Merit and an extra prize
Second Prize	1 team	A Certificate of Merit and an extra prize
Special Prize	a few team	A Certificate of Merit and an extra prize

Notes

• the completeness of the system Please complete with entry application system idea.

• System transportation Competitions bear the transportation expense of the system, for the demonstration of the free section in the final contest and in the participant competition. You will be notified after the preliminary stage about the transportation procedure. In addition, each team must prepare own computers.

• the exhibit space The exhibit space for the final contest is confined to 180cm in width, 150cm in depth, and 210cm in height per 1 system. Please keep within a rule. In addition, we are going to offer Internet connection to each booth.

• Intellectual property An applicant has the copyright for the entry, but must permit a recorded video, the process control computer official site, and the pamphlet of the following documents.

• • Documents (a work introduction, application contents manual) which you submit at the time of application

• • Documents (a pamphlet manuscript, an operation manual) which you submit in the final contest

• • Data for photograph / video of the final contest and presentation

• The Results of the final contest will be delivered LIVE via the Internet.

This competition is part of the 23rd Kosen ProCon. Kosen Procom executive committee in co-operation with Supervising Schools.

Contact

• Procon Committee — Technical questions for entry
  Tetuya KOJIMA (Tokyo National College of Technology)
• NAPROCK Staff — Questions about schedule, registration, invitation or other NAPROCK’s supports
  Sawako Tanaka, NAPROCK

Results