Important Notes

# Registration

1. If you are from Chinese Mainland, click here for registration guidance.
2. If you are from countries or regions outside Chinese Mainland, click here for registration guidance.
3. Each participant must join one and only one team. The maximum number of participants in each team is up to 3.
4. Each team can have an instructor. The instructor's name and affiliation should be noted in the team description.

# Submission

1. Before submission, participants must ensure that the algorithm has been tested in your local docker.
2. During the Formal Submission phase, each team can submit up to 5 times per day.

Overview

The Dynamic Pickup and Delivery Problem (DPDP) is an essential problem in logistics domain. So far, the research of this problem is mainly carried out on artificial data. However, artificial data cannot reflect the difficulty of real-world problems. To promote the research and application on real-world problems, we organize the competition at the 2021 International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2021). The competition uses the dataset generated from real business scenarios of Huawei Technologies Ltd.

The winners will be awarded cash prizes and trophies, as well as invited to give spot-light talks at ICAPS 2021. ICAPS is the premier conference for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications of intelligent and automated planning and scheduling technology.

We look forward to your participation!

Timeline

    ● May 1, 2021: Competition Opens.

    ● May 21 June 11, 2021: Trial Submission opens at 11:59 pm Beijing Time.

    ● June 15 June 30, 2021: Trial Submission ends at 10:00 am Beijing Time and Formal Submission opens .

    ● July 20, 2021: Team formation closes at 11:59 pm Beijing Time.

    ● July 15  July 20, 2021: Competition closes at 11:59 pm Beijing Time.

    ● August 1, 2021: Winning teams announced.

    ● August 3, 2021: Prize teams will be invited to deliver an online technical presentation at the ICAPS 2021.

Awards

Cash prizes and trophies for winners. Total Prize Amount (USD): $10,000

    ● Gold Prize: $5,000

    ● Silver Prize: $3,000

    ● Bronze Prize: $2,000

Submission

The submitted algorithms will be evaluated on a group of hidden datasets from practical system. During the Trial Submission phase, each team(not each member) can submit up to ​5 times per day, which will not be counted in the final ranking. And during the Formal Submission phase, each team can submit up to 5 times per day. Participants' rankings will be published on the official website and updated in time.

The algorithm submitted by participants will run in single core mode(do not use multiple cores) in the docker with the following configurations:

    ● OS - Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS

    ● CPU - Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6151C CPU @ 3.00GHz

    ● Memory – 32G

The server supports the programming languages: Python/Java/C/C++.

Evaluation

Refer to the Problem Description page, click here.

Competition Committee (alphabetical order)

  Hao Jianye (Huawei Noah's Ark Lab)

  Lu Jiawen (Huawei Noah's Ark Lab)

  Tong Xialiang (Huawei Noah's Ark Lab)

  Xiang Xiang (Huawei Noah's Ark Lab)

  Yuan Mingxuan (Huawei Noah's Ark Lab)

  Zhuo Hankui (SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY)  

Contact Us

For any questions, do not hesitate to raise them in the forums or QQ group (875668949) or email to furlogistics@huawei.com / competition@huaweicloud.com.

Orgnization Institute