Hello everyone!

Thank you again for participating in the Hitachi Hokudai Lab. & Hokkaido University Programming Contest on “Future autonomous distributed city development”. We are pleased to inform you that the award ceremony for this contest will be held online on March 4th (Japanese/English simultaneous interpretation available, no entry fee). Presentations will be given by the honorable top performers, along with a background explanation of this contest and an introduction to the power situation in Hokkaido. Please check the info below and join us at the awards ceremony.

Date and time： March 4, 2022 (Friday) 11:30 – 12:40 JST

Venue: Online event (lunch session of the 84th National Convention of IPSJ)

for the detail and your registration, please refer to the following site:

• Hitachi Hokudai Lab. and Hokkaido University Contest 2021 Awards Ceremony

You can also directly participate from the link below on the day of ceremony award:

• Zoom link

We look forward to your participation!

Hello everyone!

We are pleased to inform you that Problem B and distribution of a toolkit for problem B have been released.

Thank you for your patience and we are sorry to have kept you waiting for a while.

Please check the following website and we look forward to your participation:

• Hitachi Hokudai Lab. and Hokkaido University Contest 2021

We hope you enjoy the rest of the contest!

Hello everyone!

Thank you for your patience and we are sorry to have kept you waiting for a while.

We are excited to announce that the long-awaited contest has finally started now.

The period of submission for problem A is from November 13th, 2021 to January 31st, 2022. Problem B starts on December 4th.

Also, we are pleased to inform you that the test case and the toolkit including English version of the README (full version) for problem A have just been released.

Please check the following website and we look forward to your participation:

• Hitachi Hokudai Lab. and Hokkaido University Contest 2021

Hello everyone!

It’s our pleasure to invite you to participate in this year’s Hitachi Hokkudai Lab. & Hokkaido University Programming Contest on Future autonomous distributed city development. The contest is jointly sponsored by Hitachi Ltd. and Hokkaido University. It is a marathon-type contest which will last for one month and takes place as follows:

• from November 13th, 2021 to January 31st, 2022 (*Problem B starts on December 4th).

We were preparing for the contest starting on November 5th, but the preparation has been delayed due to some bugs found in the development code and we need additional time to investigate them. We are very sorry to inform you that as a result of considering the work period required to maintain the quality of the contest, we have decided to postpone the date of the contest. Your understanding would be greatly appreciated.

The contest provides problems related to optimal area design for a regional energy system. The contest consists of two problems A and B. The winner of each problem will receive 300,000 JPY, and 500,000 JPY, respectively. Registration has opened and is available through the following websites:

• Hitachi Hokudai Lab. and Hokkaido University Contest 2021

For those interested in the research background of the contest, please visit the following website:

• Contest background

We look forward to your participation!

Hello everyone!

Thank you again for participating in the Hitachi Hokudai Lab. & Hokkaido University Programming Contest on “Future autonomous distributed city development”. We are pleased to inform you that the award ceremony for this contest will be held online on March 19th (Japanese/English simultaneous interpretation available, no entry fee). Presentations will be given by the honorable top performers, along with a background explanation of this contest and an introduction to the power situation in Hokkaido. Please check the info below and join us at the awards ceremony.

Date and time： March 19, 2021 (Friday) 11:30 – 12:40 JST

Venue: Online event (lunch session of the 83rd National Convention of IPSJ)

for the detail and your registration, please refer to the following site:

• Hitachi Hokudai Lab. and Hokkaido University Contest 2020 Awards Ceremony

We look forward to your participation!

Hello everyone!

Thank you for your patience and we are sorry to have kept you waiting for a while. We are pleased to inform you that the English version of the README (full version) has just been released.

The toolkit that can also be used on windows (Cygwin and WSL) has been released on December 18th. It contains a sample of contestant code in which input/output such as reading data from the judge code has already been implemented. Also, regarding the operation of EV, "all stay", "random walk", and "multiple transportation"(for problem B) have been implemented as examples. When implementing a new algorithm, the sample is designed so that you can focus on describing the operation of EV by inheriting the strategy class. (See README.md for details.) You can use the sample when submitting your code.

Please visit below for more information:

• Hitachi Hokudai Lab. and Hokkaido University Contest 2020 *AtCoder Inc. does not support Internet Explorer. Please use other web browsers such as Edge, Chrome or Firefox.

We hope you enjoy the rest of the contest!

Hello everyone!

We are excited to announce that the long-awaited contest has finally started now.

The period of submission is from December 17th, 2020 to January 16th, 2021.

Please check the following website and we look forward to your participation:

• Hitachi Hokudai Lab. and Hokkaido University Contest 2020

• AtCoder Inc. does not support Internet Explorer. Please use other web browsers such as Edge, Chrome or Firefox.

Hello everyone!

It’s our pleasure to invite you to participate in this year’s Hitachi Hokkudai Lab. & Hokkaido University Programming Contest on Future autonomous distributed city development. The contest is jointly sponsored by Hitachi Ltd. and Hokkaido University. It is a marathon-type contest which will last for one month and takes place as follows:

• from December 17th, 2020 to January 16th, 2021.

Due to the recent spread of COVID-19 infection, we have decided to postpone the date of the contest. Your understanding would be greatly appreciated.

The contest provides problems related to multi-objective and spatio-temporal optimization in uncertain environments. The contest consists of two problems A and B. The winner of each problem will receive 100,000 JPY, and 300,000 JPY, respectively. Registration has opened and is available through the following websites:

• Hitachi Hokudai Lab. and Hokkaido University Contest 2020

For those interested in the research background of the contest, please visit the following website:

• Contest background

We look forward to your participation!

Hello everyone!

It’s our pleasure to invite you to participate in this year’s Hitachi Hokkudai Labo & Hokkaido University Programming Contest on Mathematics for Social Creativity. The contest is jointly sponsored by Hitachi Ltd. and Hokkaido University and will be held in two independent, consecutive rounds, each of which lasting for two weeks as follows:

• 1st contest: from November 8th to November 21st, 2019
• 2nd contest: from November 29th to December 12th, 2019

Both contests provide problems related to spatio-temporal optimization in uncertain environments. The first contest consists of two problems A and B. The second contest of a third problem C. The winner of each problem will receive 100000 JPY, 200000 JPY, and 300000 JPY, respectively. Registration has opened and is available through the following websites:

• Hitachi Hokudai Labo and Hokkaido University 1st Contest 2019
• Hitachi Hokudai Labo and Hokkaido University 2nd Contest 2019

For those interested in the research background of the contest, please visit the following website:

• Contest background

We look forward to your participation!

Hello everyone!

It’s our pleasure to invite you to participate in this year's Hokkaido University & Hitachi New-Concept Computing Contest. As the name says the contest is sponsored by Hokkaido University and Hitachi, Ltd. It is a marathon-type contest which will last for two weeks and takes place

• from February 14th to February 27th, 2019.

This year the contest will provide a subset of three problem’s related to the efficient representation of combinatorial optimization problems on annealing hardware. The winner of each sub-problem will be awarded 30,000 yen and the overall winner a prize of 300,000 yen. Registration has opened and is available through the following website:

• Hokkaido University & Hitachi New-Concept Computing Contest

We look forward to your participation!

Hello again!

After a very successful first round with outstanding submissions far beyond our expectation, it is our pleasure to announce that the second Hokkaido Univ. & Hitachi New-concept Computing Contest 2017 will start soon:

2nd Contest: from November 29th to December 12th, 2017

Similar to the first round, the second contest is a two-week, marathon-type programming contest, jointly sponsored by Hokkaido University and Hitachi, Ltd. The contest provides a problem related to a graph conversion algorithm, which is regarded as the key technology of the new computing concept. The winner of the contest will be awarded a prize of 300,000 Japanese Yen. If you are curious, we welcome you to sign up for the contest through the following website:

• Hokkaido Univ. & Hitachi 2nd New-concept Computing Contest 2017

We emphasize that registration for the second contest is open to everyone! In particular, participation in the second contest does not require prior participation in the first round.

We look forward to your participation!

Hello everyone!

It’s our pleasure to announce the Hokkaido Univ. & Hitachi New-concept Computing Contest 2017. It is a marathon-type programming contest sponsored jointly by Hokkaido University and Hitachi, Ltd. The contest consists of two independent parts which will be held in two consecutive rounds.

• 1st Contest: from November 15th to November 28th, 2017
• 2nd Contest: from November 29th to December 12th, 2017

Each contest provides a problem related to graph conversion algorithms, which are regarded as the key technology of the new-concept computing. The top scoring participant of each contest will be awarded 300,000 Yen. You can register your participation through the following web sites:

• Hokkaido Univ. & Hitachi 1st New-concept Computing Contest 2017
• Hokkaido Univ. & Hitachi 2nd New-concept Computing Contest 2017

We look forward to your participation!