Competition Organization

Key Points

• No more than 3 organizers
• Homogeneous divisions, wrt known systems
• Reasonable, agreed upon, operational rules
  • Selection of problems
  • Time limits
  • Execution control
  • Transparency
• Panel of 3 respected researchers

The CASC Organization

• Initially two organizers, now one organizer
• Divisions based on SPCs
• Design online, about 5 months in advance
• Panel of 3, with roll-over

Incremental Change

• Incremental changes to competition =
  incremental changes to systems
• Carefully and gently influence research
• Design based on science, not intuition
• Give competitors plenty of time to adapt