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The Design and Implementation of Modern Online Programming Competitions

2017/10/21 by Spector, Benjamin, Truell, Michael
#68N99 #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #FOS: Computer and information sciences

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1710.07738

Abstract

This paper presents a framework for the implementation of online programming competitions, including a set of principles for the design of the multiplayer game and a practical framework for the construction of the competition environment. The paper presents a successful example competition, the 2016-17 Halite challenge, and briefly mentions a second competition, the Halite II challenge, which launched in October 2017.

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