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2018年美国大学生数学建模竞赛Contest Rules, R

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MCM: The Mathematical Contest in Modeling
ICM: The Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling

Contest Rules, Registration and Instructions

(All rules and instructions apply to both ICM and MCM contests.)

To participate in a contest, each team may consist of a maximum of three students and must be sponsored by a faculty advisor from its institution.
每个队最多三名学生,而且必须在本校中选择一名指导老师

Team Members: A team may consist of up to three students from the same school and is open to all undergraduate and high school students.

Team Advisors: Any faculty, staff member, or student at your institution can fulfill the role of Advisor. The advisor will act as the main point of contact for the team, and does not have to be from the mathematics department. We do however encourage faculty members to serve as team advisors.
指导老师的职责
Please print a copy of these contest instructions for reference before, during, and after the contest. Click here for the printer friendly version.
请下载一份本指导作为竞赛参考
MCM-ICM: Procedures and Tips for a Great Experience
MCM-ICM: Procedures and Tips for a Great Experience (Chinese)
(这是另外一篇差不多的指导)
The purpose of this article is to assist and guide students and advisors participating in The Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) and The Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM). In the article, COMAP, provides information about the administration of the contests, as well as tips to ensure your contest experience is smooth, satisfying, and enjoyable.

目录
I. BEFORE THE CONTEST BEGINS:
I. 竞赛开始前
A. Registration
A.注册
B. Choose your team members
B.选择队员
II. AFTER THE CONTEST BEGINS:
II.竞赛开始后
A. View the contest problems via the contest web site
A.在竞赛网站上查看竞赛题目
B. Choose a problem
B.选择其中一个问题
C. Teams prepare solutions
C.小队写论文
D. Print Summary Sheet and Control Sheet
D.打印Summary Sheet和Control Sheet
III. BEFORE THE CONTEST ENDS:
III.竞赛结束前
A. Send electronic copy of Solution Paper by email
A.用邮件发送论文电子版
IV. WHEN THE CONTEST ENDS:
IV.竞赛结束时
A. Prepare Control Sheet
A.准备Control Sheet
B. Mail signed Control Sheet
B.邮寄带签名的Control Sheet
V. AFTER THE CONTEST IS OVER:
V.竞赛结束后
A. Confirm that your team’s solution was received
A.确认论文已经送达
B. Check contest results
B.查看竞赛结果
C. Prizes/Certificates
C.下载打印奖项/证书

2018 Contest changes/updates can be found in red below:
2018年竞赛改进

IMPORTANT NOTES:
注意事项

I. BEFORE THE CONTEST BEGINS:
I.竞赛开始前
A. Registration
A.注册
All teams must be registered before ****3PM EST on Thursday, February 8, 2018. We recommend that all teams complete the registration process well in advance, since the registration system will not accept any new team registrations after the deadline. COMAP will not accept late registrations for MCM/ICM 2018 under any circumstances. NO EXCEPTIONS WILL BE MADE.
必须在规定时间之前注册好
1.Register your team online via the contest web site: Go to http://www.comap.com/undergraduate/contests/mcm.
1.注册地址
a. If you are registering your first team for this year’s contest, click on Register for Contest on the left-hand side of the screen.
Enter all the required information, including your email address and contact information.
IMPORTANT: Be sure to use a valid and current email address so that we can use it to contact you at any point before, during, and after the contest, if necessary.
a.在Register for Contest中填写注册信息
b. If you have already registered a team for this year’s contest and want to register a second team, click on Advisor Login, then log in with the same email address and password that you used when you registered your first team. Once you’re logged in, click on Register Another Team near the upper right corner of the page, then follow the instructions there. There is no restriction on the number of teams an advisor can register.
b.注册过的可以直接点Advisor Login登录(似乎这些操作主要是通过指导老师完成的)。指导老师指导的队伍数量没有上限。
2.Registration Fee
2.注册费用
A $100 registration fee per team is required.
每个队伍100美元。
We accept payment with Mastercard or Visa only via our secure web site. We cannot accept other forms of payment. Our secure site will process your credit card payment, so your credit card number is protected. Our system will not store your credit card number after it processes your payment.
只能用Mastercard或者Visa支付。
3.After we receive approval from your financial institution (this takes only a few seconds), the system will issue a control number for your team. Your team is not officially registered until you have received a team control number. Print the page that displays your team control number:**** It is your only confirmation that your team has been registered. This page also lists the email address and password that you entered when registering; you will need this information to complete the contest procedures.
3.交费成功后的页面会显示control number,收到控制号的才算注册成功。成功页面上还会显示帐号和密码,这一页可以打印下来保存。
You will NOT receive an email confirmation of your registration.
注册成功是不会收到电子邮件的确认的(防骗)。
4.If you need to change any of the information (name, address, contact information, etc.) that you specified when you registered, you can do so at any point before or during the contest by logging in to the contest web site with the same email address and password that you used when registering (click on the Advisor Login link on the left side of the screen). Once logged in, click on the Edit Advisor or Institution Datalink near the upper right corner of the page.
4.竞赛结束前,队员信息可以更改。(后文说在竞赛开始前可以选择队员,不清楚具体的意思,最好在竞赛开始前把所用信息都确定)
5.Check the contest web site regularly for any updated instructions or announcements about the contest. Except in extreme circumstances, COMAP will not send any confirmation, reminders, or announcements by email. All communication regarding the contest will be via the contest web site.
5.时常关注网站的最新动态。COMAP 一般不会给大家发送邮件,所有关于比赛的交流都在网站上进行。
6.You will return to the contest web site during the contest to enter and confirm information about your team, and to print/download out your team’s Control Sheet and Summary Sheets, which you will use when preparing your team’s solution. Details on these steps follow in the instructions below.
6.在竞赛过程中,需要在网站上下载队伍的Control Sheet 和 Summary Sheet,具体细节会在后文详解。
B. Choose your team members:
B.选择队伍成员
1.You must choose your team members before the contest begins at 5PM EST on Thursday February 8, 2018. Once the contest begins you may not add or change any team members (you may, however, remove a team member, if he or she decides not to participate).
1.竞赛开始前必须选好队友,开始后不能增加和更改成员,但是是可以删除成员的。
2.Each team may consist of a maximum of three students. (Teams may consist of 1, 2, or 3 students).
2.一个队伍最多三人。
3.Each student may participate on only one team.
3.每名学生只能参加一个队伍。
4.Team members must be enrolled in school at the time of the contest, but they need not be full-time students.
4.竞赛期间队员必须是在校学生,但不用是全日制的。
5.Team members must be enrolled at the same school as the advisor and other team members.
5.所有队员和指导老师必须来自同一学校。
6.Team members must be enrolled at the same school. (No exceptions will be made).
6.队员必须来自同一学校。
7.Team members must be undergraduate students postgraduate students are not allowed.
7.队员必须是本科生,不能是研究生。

II. AFTER THE CONTEST BEGINS:
II.竞赛开始后
A. View the contest problems via the contest web site:

Teams can view the contest problems via the contest web site when the contest begins at 5PM EST on Thursday ****February 8, 2018****:

1.The contest problems will become available precisely at 5PM EST on Thursday February 8, 2018; team members can view them by visiting http://www.comap.com/undergraduate/contests/mcm. No password will be needed to view the problems; simply go to the contest web site at or after 5PM EST on Thursday, February 8, 2018 and you will see a link to view the problems.
美国东部时间2018年2月8日星期四下午5点发题的网站,不需要密码就可以登录。
2.The contest problems will become available precisely at 4:50PM EST on Thursday February 8, 2018 on the following mirror sites:
http://www.comap-math.com/mcm/index.html
http://www.mathismore.net/mcm/index.html
http://www.mathportals.com/mcm/index.html
http://www.immchallenge.org/mcm/index.html
If you cannot access any of the sites, there may be a problem with your local Internet connection. Contact your local Internet service provider to resolve the issue.
美国东部时间2018年2月8日星期四下午4点50发题的网站,不需要密码就可以登录。

B. Choose a problem:
Each team may choose any one of the six problem choices and should submit a solution to only one problem.
• MCM problems are Problem A, Problem B or Problem C.
• ICM problems are Problem D, Problem E or Problem F.

C. Teams prepare solutions:
1.Teams may use any inanimate source of data or materials: computers, software, references, web sites, books, etc. ALL SOURCES USED MUST BE CREDITED. Failure to credit a source will result in a team being disqualified from the competition.
1.队伍可以使用所有无机资料,但必须如实标明出处。
2.Team members may not seek help from or discuss the problem with their advisor or anyone else, except other members of the same team. Input in any form from anyone other than student team members is strictly forbidden. This includes email, telephone contact, and personal conversation, communication via web chat or other question-answer systems, or any other form of communication.
2.不准和他人交流。
3.Partial solutions are acceptable. There is no passing or failing cut-off score, and numerical scores will not be assigned. The MCM/ICM contest judges are primarily interested in the team’s approach and methods.
3.没全部完成没有关系,没有对完成度划界,分数不会仅仅因为没完成而减少。主要看的是方法和思路。
4.Summary Sheet: The summary is an essential part of your MCM/ICM paper. The judges place considerable weight on the summary, and winning papers are often distinguished from other papers based on the quality of the summary.
4.Summary Sheet:裁判很中意摘要写得好的队伍。
To write a good summary, imagine that a reader will choose whether to read the body of the paper based on your summary: Your concise presentation in the summary should inspire a reader to learn about the details of your work. Thus, a summary should clearly describe your approach to the problem and, most prominently, your most important conclusions. Summaries that are mere restatements of the contest problem, or are a cut-and-paste boilerplate from the Introduction are generally considered to be weak.
要想写好摘要,要站在读者的角度,摘要写得好才有兴趣接着读正文。简明的称述,清楚的思路和方法,最重要的是要给出主要结论。仅仅重述问题或者直接从引言中复制粘贴过来是不行的。
Besides the summary sheet as described each paper should contain the following sections:
summary sheet需要包含以下内容:

9.The names of the students, advisor, or institution should NOT appear on any page of the electronic solution. The solution should not contain any identifying information other than the team control number.
9.电子版除了控制号码之外不能出现任何个人信息。
10.Failure to adhere to any preparation rule is grounds for team disqualification.
10.不遵守规则就不合格

D. Advisor Login: Choose a Problem and Print Control Sheet:
指导老师登录:选择问题和打印Control Sheet
After the contest begins at 5PM EST on Thursday February 8, 2018, and while the teams are preparing their solutions, the advisor should:
比赛开始后,队员在建模时,指导老师应该:
1.Login to the contest web site (go to http://www.comap.com/undergraduate/contests/mcm. Click on Advisor Login, then enter your email address and password).
1.登录网站
2.If you have not done so already enter the team member names and confirm that each name is spelled correctly. This determines how the names will appear on the contest certificates. COMAP will not make any changes or reprint certificates for any reason.
2.确认信息
3.Specify the problem that your team has chosen to solve.
3.选题
4.Print/Download one copy of the Control Sheet.
4.下载Control Sheet
5.Download or copy the team Summary Sheet. (This should be used as the first page of your electronic email submission.)
5.下载或复制队伍的Summary Sheet(这个是电子邮件提交的第一页的内容)

III. BEFORE THE CONTEST ENDS:
III.竞赛结束前
A. Send electronic copy of Solution Paper by email:
A.用电子邮件发送论文
1.Each team is required to submit an electronic copy of its solution paper by email tosolutions@comap.com. Any team member or the advisor may submit this email.
1.队员和指导老师都可以提交,邮箱地址如上
a. Your email MUST be received at COMAP by the email submission deadline of 9PM EST on February 12, 2018.
a.美国东部时间2018年2月12日上午9点之前必须提交
b. Failure by a team to submit a solution via email by 9PM EST on ****February 12, 2018 constitutes a violation of the contest rules and will result in that team’s disqualification.
b.超过规定时间提交无效
c. No further modifications, enhancements, additions, or improvements may be made to the team’s solution paper after 8PM EST on February 12, 2018. Any changes to the solution will constitute a violation of the contest rules and may result in disqualification.
c.竞赛结束后不能更改论文
2.In the subject line of your email write: COMAP and your team’s control number. For example:
2.邮件主题的填写方法:COMAP+control number
Subject: COMAP 2222

3.Use your team’s control number as the name of your file attachments.
3.附件的名称用control number命名
4.COMAP will accept only an Adobe PDF or Microsoft Word file of your solution. DO NOT include your Control Sheet, programs or software with your email as they will not be used in the judging process. Limit one solution per email. The names of the students, advisor, or institution should NOT appear on any page of the electronic solution. Your team's summary should be included as the first page of your file. *Note: The attachment must be less than 17MB.
!! Do not use a cloud service such as Google Docs your email must contain a Adobe PDF or Microsoft Word attachment.
论文不包含control sheet,summary在论文的第一页,附件不能超过17MB。
5.See the rules for submitting the signed Control Sheet via email below.
5.后文会说用邮件发送control sheet的规则

IV. WHEN THE CONTEST ENDS:
IV.竞赛结束时
A. Prepare Control Sheet:
A.准备control sheet
When the contest ends at 8PM EST on ****February 12, 2018****:
竞赛结束时
1.Each team member must sign the Control Sheet to pledge that he or she abided by the contest rules and instructions.
1.队伍成员在control sheet上签名
*Note you are not required to mail a print copy of your Solution Paper or Control Sheet.
注意,不用邮寄solution paper 或者 control sheet
B. Email The Signed Control Sheet:
B.发送签好名的control sheet

  1. Send the signed Control Sheet by email to COMAP:
    After the signed control sheet is prepared, email it to: forms@comap.com. In the subject line of your email write: COMAP and your team's control number. For example: COMAP 2222. COMAP will accept only an Adobe PDF or a Photo Image of your control sheet. Limit one set of forms per email. Teams may take pictures of the signed forms with a phone or digital camera and then email the images to forms@comap.com. *Note: The attachment must be less than 17MB.
    (Note you are not required to mail a print copy of your Control Sheet.) !! Do not use a cloud service such as Google Docs your email must contain a Adobe PDF or Microsoft Word attachment.
    邮件地址如上,邮件主题:COMAP+control number,邮件附件的格式为PDF或者照片(用PDF比较好),附件大小不能超过17MB。
    注意不用邮寄纸质版。
    The Control Sheet must be received by COMAP no later than 5:00 PM EST on Friday, March 2, 2018. COMAP is not responsible for contest forms received after that date.
    Control Sheet必须在美国东部时间2018年3月2日下午5点之前发送

V. AFTER THE CONTEST IS OVER:
V.竞赛结束后
A. Confirm that your team’s solution was received:
A.确认邮件已经被收到
1.You may login to the contest web site using the Advisor Login link to verify that your team’s Electronic Solution was received at COMAP.
1.可以上网站查询是否收到
B. Check contest results:
B.查看竞赛结果
1.**Judging: **Judging will be completed in March and the results will be posted on April 29, 2018. The Solution Papers will be recognized as Disqualified, Unsuccessful, Successful Participant, Honorable Mention, Meritorious, Finalist, or Outstanding Winner.
1.2018年4月29日公布
2.We will post the contest results on the web site as soon as they are available, so visit the contest web site regularly to check for updates. It will take several weeks for the judges to evaluate the solutions and for COMAP to process the results. Please do NOT call or email COMAP regarding contest results.
2.可以时常查看网站动态,评审不要给COMAP打电话或者发邮件
C. Prizes/Certificates:
C.奖项/证书

[图片上传失败...(image-2f1c2e-1515768075959)] The Two Sigma Scholarship Award will be awarded to two top MCM/ICM US teams; $10,000 per team with $9000 going to the team members and $1000 to the school represented. Awards will be announced in April 2018.

two sigma奖学金,给成绩最好的两支美国队伍。9000美元给队伍,1000美元给学校

[图片上传失败...(image-baf099-1515768075959)] After the results are issued, each successfully participating team advisor and student will receive a certificate of participation. You may login to the contest web site using the Advisor Login link to view and print your team's certificates. All international teams will receive ONLY an electronic (PDF) certificate. US teams should allow several weeks after the results are posted to the contest web site to receive your print certificate. Click here to download MCM/ICM certificates.

  • MCM Awards (Problem A, B and C)
  • The Ben Fusaro Award will be accorded to an especially creative paper and will be chosen from the contest finalists.
  • The Frank R. Giordano Award began in 2012. It honors Brig. Gen. (ret) Frank Giordano who directed the MCM for 20 years. This award goes to a paper that demonstrates true excellence in the execution of the modeling process.
  • ICM Awards (Problem D, E and F)
  • The Leonhard Euler Award is presented to a team selected by the head judge of the ICM's Problem D. The criteria are: 1) a paper in the Meritorious/Finalist/Outstanding rating; 2) contains especially creative and innovative modeling; and 3) shows good understanding of interdisciplinary science. The award honors the name of a 18th-century Swiss applied mathematician, who was known for the breadth of his research applications, volume of written work, excellent teaching, and interdisciplinarity.
  • The Rachel Carson Award honors an American conservationist whose book "Silent Spring" initiated the global environmental movement and whose work spanned many disciplines concerned with the local and global environments. This award is presented to a team selected by the Head Judge of ICM Problem E for excellence in using scientific theory and data in its modeling.
  • Vilfredo Pareto was an Italian scholar, modeler and problem solver, who at various times was an engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist, mathematician, and philosopher. He lived and worked in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The ICM Pareto Award for outstanding modeling in the Policy Modeling problem (ICM Problem F) honors the work and legacy of this famous social science problem solver. In particular for this award, the head judge seeks to highlight a paper that best models the more dynamic and challenging contextual human elements that make simplification or refinement of policy models so difficult.

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The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is the largest society in the world for professionals in the field of operations research (OR), management science (MS), and analytics. INFORMS has long recognized the importance of involving undergraduate students and faculty in an unscripted process of mathematical modeling whose problems contain many of the modern elements seen by its membership. The MCM/ICM exemplifies these characteristics. Consequently, INFORMS has been an active supporter of the MCM/ICM since its inception.

INFORMS carefully selects and designates a single Outstanding team from each of the six problems - A, B, C, D, E, F - as an INFORMS Outstanding winning team whose modeling and analyses best exemplify the style and content reflected in its membership's professional practice. Each student receives a letter of congratulations from the current INFORMS President and a complimentary one-year INFORMS student membership. Each associated faculty advisor receives a letter of congratulations and appreciation from the current INFORMS President, along with complimentary one-year access to the full suite of award-winning INFORMS journals.

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The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) will designate one Outstanding team from MCM Problems A and B as a SIAM winner. Each student member of the winning team will receive a cash award of $500 and three one-year student memberships in SIAM. A certificate for the home institutions will be given to the faculty advisers of the winning teams.

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The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) will designate two Outstanding teams from the MCM as a MAA winners. Each student member of the winning team will receive a certificate. MAA will partial reimburse teams travel expenses to Math Fest so that they may present their paper.

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The American Statistical Association (ASA) will designate one Outstanding team from MCM Problem C as a ASA winner.

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