Welcome to 2009 SCILAB-OW2 Joint Open Source Software Contest!

2009 Scilab Contest will be held in will be held in September 18-20, 2009, in Tianjiabing Building multifunctional conference centre of Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, city of forest, the capital of Guizhou province, located amid the inland southeastern area, China Excellent City of Tourism.

Background : SCILAB is the famous open source software for scientific computing. Originally created by INRIA, the Scilab Consortium has joint in July 2008 the Digiteo Foundation, first world-class research in the Île-de-France area, dedicated to Information Science and Technology. Since more than a decade, SCILAB has been extensively received by scientists, engineers, technicians and practitioners in both academia and industry. It has been recognized as the best substitute for commercial software like Matlab, Xmath and Matrix, and is being distributed currently at the speed of 50,000 copies per month in all over the world.

SCILAB has brought us not only powerful functions in scientific computing, but also its free spirit of open source. At present, the Scilab Consortium Research and Development Team is devoted to developing and promoting the open source software to the world, particularly in China. The free spirit of open source software and technology makes far-reaching sense to China's software industry in terms of liberalization from the international Commercial software companies. Therefore, research institutes and governmental sessions concerned in China and France have co-developed and been supporting SCILAB activities in China. From this point of view, SCILAB promotion in China has set up a broad bridge between the researchers in China and in France, and it provides the opportunities for Chinese researchers, engineers and students to study and express their talent by means of competition and communication with Chinese and French industrial partners. Since 2002, the SCILAB competition has been arranged in China once a year under the auspices of LIAMA, SCILAB university partners, and INRIA in France. The seven annual events were held in Shanghai, Xi'an, Xiamen, Wuhan, Hangzhou, foshan and Liuzhou respectively.

Competition Purposes: The competition is sponsored for Chinese students and technicians to improve the ability to study and manage SCILAB, and it can also provide an opportunity and a stage to express your own talent in computer programming. What’s more, it is a competition that exhibits the demeanor of college students in science and technology and enhance the intercommunication and cooperation of own college student with one another. The competition advocates the time spirit of "freedom, share and creation". This competition campaign is conducted by the technicians from France and China, and the main target of the competition is to improve the communication and cooperation between two countries.

Rules of Contest :
    Eligibility:

• Academic staff and students of university and research institute, engineers of industrial and business organizations, and all other professionals.

    Requirement of Contest Works:

• Contest works should be based on free SCILAB toolboxes. Please refer to the latest toolboxes and source codes released;
• Contestants may select any topic for their work. The work should include demonstrations, examples, online assistants and documents.
• Demonstration program is to be written in SCILAB and other language, for example, FORTRAN, C++, Java, and so on. Toolbox should run on SCILAB 4.1.2 or higher.

    Requirement of Contest Works: For each toolbox the contestant has to give:

• One page in English with the name of the toolbox, the authors and their affiliation, and a brief description of the toolbox.
• A paper in English which describes the requirements for using the toolbox such as the operating system (Windows, Linux…), the compilers (C, C++…), the libraries (JAVA…), Scilab version and other relevant information if needed, together with a small user’s guide which explains how to install the toolbox with Scilab.
  

    Important Technical points : The purpose of following technical points is that your toolbox can
    be used by other people using Scilab. After the requirements for using the toolbox are fulfilled, the
    user must be able to use the toolbox with his standard Scilab version. This is an important point
    because then your toolbox can be put on Scilab Web site and so be easily available for all Scilab
    community.

1. The Scilab distribution that must be used for the contest is the official stable version 4.1.2. It can be downloaded from Scilab Web site www.scilab.org or other mirror sites.
2. The toolbox will be given as a compressed file using standard file compressor such as zip or gzip. The compressed file must only include the toolbox and possibly all what is necessary to use it (such as additional libraries for instance): the toolbox must work with standard Scilab versions already installed.
3. The toolbox must include on-line help files describing its purpose and the on-line help of each user callable Scilab function if any. The help files must be written using the standard XML language using Scilab DTD.
4. A demonstration of the toolbox, using for instance Scilab “demo” files, will be appreciated.
5. For building and loading toolboxes into Scilab, standard “builder.sce” and “loader.sce” files can be defined using the “get_absolute_file_path”, “genlib”, “ilib_build”, etc… Scilab functions. These functions allow, in most cases, to create system independent “loader.sce” and “builder.sce” files.

Award Selection: The Award Selection process includes three stages:

1. Shortlist of entries by an Expert Team.
2. Peer-evaluation on the Internet, and.
3. Final selection by French and Chinese Scientists.

    In the first stage, 22 works will be shortlisted from all the received submissions. Peer-evaluation
    on the Internet will be made by all contestants. Finally, the French and Chinese Scientist Team
    will decide on the awards to be given, taking into consideration the results of the first and second
    stages.

Prizes:

1. First prize: up to TWO awards will be given. (For each Award, a maximum of one students and one academic advisor will be invited to visit the SCILAB team for one week,and then the students will be invited to visit LIAMA for two months).
2. Second prize: up to TEN awards will be given. (Each Award: RMB 1000).
3. Third prize: up to TEN awards will be given. (Each Award: RMB 500).
   
   All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Press, which are cited by EI.

Organization:
Sponsors:

• LIAMA
• OW2 Consortium
• Scilab Consortium/DIGITEO - France
• INRIA - France
• Guizhou Normal University ,China
  

Co-sponsored by:

• French Embassy in China
• Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA)
• CVIC SE
• Ecole Centrale de Pékin, China
• Key Laboratory of Information and Computing Science of Guizhou
• Guizhou Software Engineering Center
• Guizhou Association of Automation

In Cooperation with:

• France Telecom, R & D Beijing
• Thomson Broad Hand R & D Beijin
• Bull Information Systems Beijing
• Guizhou Committee of Chinese’s Political Consultative Conference
  

International committee:

Zengqi SUN	China(Chairman)	Xiaoyao XIE	China (Co-Chairman)
Changle ZHOU	China	Tiejun WU	China
Claude GOMEZ	France	Shiyin QIN	China
Baogang HU	China	Shi LI	China
Jianwei ZHOU	China	Zhenjiang TANG	China
Taijie YOU	China	Danning LI	China
Zhijie LIU	China	Hua ZHU	China
Taiping MAO	China	Zhiyong ZHANG	China
Longhua MA	China	Mingguo ZHAO	China
Xingbo WANG	China	Xinhan HUANG	China
Li YANG	China	Eric T.T. WONG	China
Kejun WANG	China	Huazhong XU	China
Changle ZHOU	China	Jun CAI	China
Xinmin DAI	China	Xiaofeng LIN	China
Qizhi ZHANG	China	Jianguo HE	China
Dong ZHANG	China	Wansen WANG	China
Wei PAN	China	Minfen SHEN	China
Feng KONG	China	Ding LIU	China
Feng GAO	China	Junping DU	China
Yu HE	China	Shiqi YU	China
Linlin SHEN	China	Guangming XIE	China
Yaonan WANG	China	Maurice GOURSAT	France
Serge STEER	France	Ramine NIKOUKHAH	France
Marc JAEGER	France	Roberto BUCHER	Switzerland
Tianzi JIANG	China	Stéphane GRUMBACH	France
Marc ZOLVER	France

International Advisory committee:

Bo ZHANG	China
Songde MA	China
Youxian SUN	China
Maurice ROBIN	France
Pengcheng WU	China

Workshop organizing committee:

Shi LI	China(Chairman)	Guofu LV	(Co-Chairman)
Yan CHEN	China	Yang XU	China
Qi ZHANG	China	Dunxi SUN	China
Haibo WANG	China	Bian XU	China

Contact Information:

       Yang XU, Guizhou Normal University
       13639087515 | kyxy3465@sina.com.cn
       Cai KANG, LIAMA
       13366405895 | scilab2008@gmail.com
       Shi LI, LIAMA
       13910603488 | leeshi2006@gmail.com

Important Deadline :

• Deadline of registration : May. 1, 2009
• Deadline of workshop submission : Go to osscweb
• Deadline of work submission : Aug. 25, 2009

Important Venue:

2009 Scilab Contest will be held in Guiyang, city of forest, the capital of Guizhou province, China.