Data Mining Cup 2015

DEADLINE: May 19, 2015

Not to be missed! - The most important dates

March 10, 2015 - start of registration
April 7, 2015 - start of competition and announcement task
May 19, 2015 - end of competition and closing date
June 29-30, 2015 - prudsys personalization summit (for retail) in Berlin, Germany and award ceremony

Purpose, Conditions, Registration, Task, and Prizes

Section 1 Purpose of the competition

The annual prudsys AG DMC competition aims to enthuse students from universities at home and abroad for intelligent data analysis (Data Mining) and to challenge them to find the best solution for a data mining problem in competition with others. The focus is on a practical task that was written with partners.

Section 2 Conditions for participation

2.1. Student competition

Domestic and international students are entitled to take part in the DMC competition in teams. Interested parties who are not students may not take part.

2.2. Maximum number of teams

A maximum of two teams are permitted from each educational institution (university, technical university, vocational university etc.). There is no restriction on the size of the team.

2.3. Team leader

Each person who registers a team automatically becomes the team leader. Each team leader must be a student enrolled at an educational institution at the time of the competition. It must be possible to clearly assign the team leader to an educational institution. The team leader then sets up the team and is responsible for compliance with the participation conditions.The team leader submits the team’s entry and if awarded a prize receives it on behalf of the team.A person can only act as the team leader for one team.

2.4. Team members

All team members must be registered as students at the educational institution where they start the team at the time of the competition. There is no restriction on the size of the team. A team may consist of just one person (refer to Section 3.3). Individual team members do not need to register separately.

Section 3 Registration

3.1. Form

The students must register for the competition between 10th March 2015 and 19th May 2015 exclusively using the following online form. A maximum of two teams can register from each educational institution (university, technical university, vocational university). The team leader registers on behalf of the student team. The registration must include the first and last names as well as the contact details of the team leader and the name and faculty of the educational institution.

3.2. Declarations

The registration must also include the following information and declarations:

Express declaration by the team leader that they act as the contact for prudsys in the name of, on behalf of and with the express agreement of all team members.

The express declaration of the team leader that on behalf of all team members the leader agrees to the application of these participation conditions that can be viewed at online form for the competition and on behalf of all team members the leader accepts the application of these participation conditions as the basis of the team’s participation in the competition.

The team leader agrees that their personal data can be collected, saved and used for the purposes of implementing and processing the competition. prudsys AG will not use the data for other purposes.

With the team’s registration the team leader declares that all of the statements made therein apply to them as a person.

3.3. Approval

A team is only considered to be approved for participation if the team leader receives a confirmation email from prudsys after registration. This confirmation email gives the team leader the team’s name and ID. prudsys AG reserves the right to subsequently exclude teams from the competition if they are comprised of a single person and this person refuses to accept other team members.If more than two teams per educational institution register the timing of the relevant registration is key to approval.

Section 4 Task and submitting the results

4.1 Task

The task is provided to the team leader at the start of the competition on 7th April 2015.

4.2. Results

The results must be submitted by the team leader stating the team name at the latest by the end of the submission deadline on 19th May 2015. Additional information on submission will be provided with the task.

Section 5 Prizes and awarding prizes

5.1. Prizes

As part of the competition prudsys AG will provide the following prizes:

Task 1:

1st place: EUR 2,000.00

2nd place: EUR 1,000.00

3rd place: EUR    500.00

Task 2 (if existing):

non-cash prize for the first team

The prizes are not transferable and are paid exclusively to the team leader. The team leaders receive their prizes on behalf of their team.

5.2 Placings

A jury will decide on the placings for the results submitted as part of the competition and the award of prizes. The jury’s deliberations take place in camera. The prizes will be awarded on June 29, 2015 as part of the prudsys personalization summit (for retail) in Berlin/Germany. The jurisdiction of the courts is excluded. There is no legally enforceable claim to payment of the prize by prudsys AG.

5.3. Invitations

The team leaders who have qualified for the prizes will be informed in good time before the prize-giving and invited to the prize-giving with three other team members. The team leaders of the invited teams are obliged to submit the team list stating the team members who worked on the results in good time before the event and to provide evidence for the student status of all team members including the team leader.

Section 6 Copyright/usage rights

6.1.

The team and team leader make assurances that they are the owner of the rights to the result submitted.

6.2.

The team and team leader are obliged to present their result or solution model as part of the prudsys personalization summit (for retail) in Berlin if the team is awarded a prize as stated in Section 5.

6.3.

The team and team leader declares its willingness to provide the usage rights to cooperation and jury partners if this is desired.

6.4.

The teams and team leaders are authorised to use the winning entry for promotional purposes.

Section 7 Non-compliance with the terms of participation

7.1. Exclusion

prudsys AG reserves the right not to approve teams for the competition or exclude them from it if the participation requirements stated in Sections 2 and 3 are not met.

7.2. Repayment of prize

prudsys AG reserves the right to deny prizes later if the participation requirements are not met or if manipulation is attempted or carried out. If already paid, prizes denied must be repaid by the team leader immediately after receiving the relevant request for repayment.

Section 8 Final provisions

8.1. Court of jurisdiction

The court of jurisdiction is the headquarters of prudsys AG.

8.2. Law

These participation conditions, the competition and the resulting legal relationships between the team leaders and prudsys AG are subject exclusively to the law of the Federal Republic of Germany.

8.3. Ineffectiveness

The nullity or ineffectiveness of individual provisions in these participation conditions does not affect the validity of the other provisions. The participants are obliged to replace the ineffective provision by an effective one that comes as close as possible to the economic and legal purpose of the ineffective provision. This also applies if there is a gap in these participation conditions.

Source: Data Mining Cup

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