美国MCM/ICM竞赛规则
MCM:The Mathematical Contest in Modeling
MCM：数学建模竞赛
ICM:The Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling
ICM：交叉学科建模竞赛
Contest Rules, Registration and Instructions
比赛规则，比赛注册和指导
(All rules and instructions apply to both ICM and MCM contests, except where other wise noted.)
（所有MCM的说明和规则除特别说明以外都适用于ICM）
To participate in a contest, each team must be sponsored by a faculty advisor from its institution.
每个MCM的参赛队需有一名所在单位的指导教师负责。
Team Advisors: Please read these instructions carefully. It is your responsibility to make sure that teams are correctly registered and that all of the following steps required for participation in the contest are completed:
Please print a copy of these contest instructions for reference before, during, and after the contest. Click here for the printer friendly version.
指导老师：请认真阅读这些说明，确保完成了所有相关的步骤。每位指导教师的责任包括确保每个参赛队正确注册并正确完成参加MCM/ ICM所要求的相关步骤。请在比赛前做一份《竞赛注册和指导 》的拷贝，以便在竞赛时和结束后作为参考。
I. BEFORE THE CONTEST BEGINS:
A. Registration
B. Choose your team members
1.竞赛前
%x8A．注册
B．选好参赛队成员
II. AFTER THE CONTEST BEGINS:
A. View the contest problems via the contest web site
B. Choose a problem
C. Teams prepare solutions
D. Print Summary Sheet and Control Sheet
2.竞赛开始之后(n; M) T9 K0 e5 k, T+
A．通过竞赛的网址查看题目}g7 q7 |& q0 e7 l
B．选题
C．参赛队准备解决方案-o- s8 G: f' K* B* I! [
D．打印摘要和控制页面
III. BEFORE THE CONTEST ENDS:
A. Send electronic copy of Solution ** by email
3.竞赛结束之前
A.发送电子版论文。
IV. WHEN THE CONTEST ENDS:
A. Prepare Solution Packet
B. Mail Solution Packet
4.竞赛结束的时候$L% M, I9 ~6 p/ r' a0 _* T
A. 准备论文打包"d)
B．邮寄论文
V. AFTER THE CONTEST IS OVER:
A. Confirm that your team’s solution was received
B. Check contest results
C. Certificates
D. Prizes
5.竞赛结束之后-g* w+ C' L. P7 X3 G
A. 确认论文收到
B．核实竞赛结果
C．发证书\+P* o' A( d" `% [. q
D．颁奖
IMPORTANT NOTES:
· COMAP is the final arbiter of all rules and policies, and may disqualify or refuse to register any team that, in its sole discretion, does not follow these contest regulations and procedures.
COMAP拥有对所有规则和制度的解释权，有权不受理任何不符合要求的参赛申请。
· If a team is caught violating the rules, the faculty advisor will not be permitted to advise another team for one year, and the advisor’s institution will be put on probation for one year.
如果参赛队伍违反竞赛规则，该指导老师一年之内将不能指导其他队伍，该参赛单位将被留作观察一年。
· If a team from the same institution is caught violating the rules a second time, then that school will not be allowed to compete for a period of at least one year.
如果一个队第二次违反了规定，该学校将最少被禁赛一年。
· All times given in these instructions are in terms of Eastern Standard Time (EST). (COMAP is located in the U.S. Eastern Time zone.)
COMAP 位于美国东部时区，本《指导》中所涉及的所有时间均指的是东部时间。
I. BEFORE THE CONTEST BEGINS:（竞赛前）
A. Registration
All teams must be registered before 2PM EST on Thursday, February 9, 2012. We recommend that all teams complete the registration process well in advance, since the registration system will not accept any new team registrations after the deadline. COMAP will not accept late registrations for MCM/ICM 2012 under any circumstances. NO EXCEPTIONS WILL BE MADE.
A.注册/K% c8 s+ C( n- ?
所有的参赛队必须在美国东部时间2012年2月9号（星期四）下午2点前完成注册。届时，注册系统将会自动关闭，不再接受新的注册。任何未在规定时间内注册的参赛队都没有参加2011年MCM的资格。不存在例外情况。
1.Register your team online via thecontest web site: Go tohttp://www.comap.com/undergraduate/contests/mcm.
1在线通过下面的网站注册：http://www.comap.com/undergraduate/contests/mcm
a. If you are registering your first team for this year’s contest, click on Register for 2012 Contest on the left-hand side of the screen.
Enter all the required information, including your email address and contact information.
IMPORTANT: Be sure to use a valid and current email address so that we can use it to contact you at any point before, during, and after the contest, if necessary.
b. If you have already registered a team for this year’s contest and want to register a second team, click on Advisor Login, then log in with the same email address and password that you used when you registered your first team. Once you’re logged in, click on Register Another Team near the upper right corner of the page, then follow the instructions there.
Note: An advisor may register no more than two (2) teams. If you already registered two teams, theRegister Another Team link will not appear. The system will not allow you to register more than two teams.
c. Although each advisor can register only two teams, there is no restriction on the number of advisors or teams that can register from any particular institution or department.
a.如果您刚刚开始注册竞赛的第一个参赛队，请点击网页左边的Register for 2012 Contest。输入所有需要的信息，包括邮箱地址和联系方式。
特别注意：必须输入一个可用的正确的E-mail地址！以便竞赛主委会与各参赛队在赛前、赛中和赛后都能保持联系。'L. e& E3 U+ ~; f+ l' \
b. 如果您已经注册过一个参赛队而想为另外一个参赛队注册，请点击Advisor Login，打开页面后请您使用在注册第一支参赛队时使用的E-mail地址和密码进行登入。登入之后请点击网页右上角的Register Another Team链接，按照我们的指导进行下一步。
注意:一个指导老师注册不能超过两个队。如果你已经注册了2个队，Register Another Team链接就消失。系统不允许注册超过2队。
c. 虽然每个指导老师只能注册两个队，但是对指导老师或者是总的队数是没有限制的。
2.Registration Fee
a．$100 registration fee per team is required.
For anadditional $100 fee per team, you can receive a Judges Commentary written specifically about your team’s **.
We accept payment with Mastercard or Visa only via our secure web site. We cannot accept other forms of payment. Our secure site will process your credit card payment, so your credit card number is protected. Our system will not store your credit card number after it processes your payment.
a．每队必须交100美元的报名费。
每个队额外的交100美元，可以收到一个专门为你们的论文写的评委评论。t* x2 K
我们仅通过Mastercard或者Visa收取注册费。我们不接受其他方式的付款。我们会保护你信用卡的账号安全，系统在付账之后不会存储你的账号。
b. After we receive approval from your financial institution (this takes only a few seconds), the system will issue a control number for your team. Your team is not officially registered until you have received a teamcontrol number. Print the page that displays your team control number: It is your only confirmation that your team has been registered. This page also lists the email address and password that you entered when registering; you will need this information to complete the contest procedures.
You will NOT receive an email confirmation of your registration
b. 一旦我们收到了您的信用卡机构的确认（这往往只需要数秒钟），我们的系统将为您的参赛队自动生成一个控制编号。参赛队在没有收到控制编号以前都是没有完成参赛注册的。将给出参赛队控制编号的网页打印出来：这是你已经注册的唯一的确认。该网页同时也包含了你注册时所提供的E-mail和密码的提示，您在完成比赛的整个过程中将会用到它们。你将不会收到Email的确认注册信息。
c．If you need to change any of the information(name, address, contact information, etc.) that you specified when you registered, you can do so at any point before or during the contest by logging in to the contest web site with the same email address and password that you used when registering (click on theAdvisor Login link on the left side of the screen). Once logged in, click on the Edit Advisor or Institution Data link near the upper right corner of the page.
c. 如果需要在赛前或是赛中改变任何您在注册时所填写的参赛信息（姓名、地址、联系资料等）时，你可以点击页面左边的Advisor Login 链接并使用你的E-mail和密码登入大赛的网站。登陆以后点击页面右上角的Edit Advisor or Institution Data 链接进行修改。
d. Check the contest web site regularly for any updated instructions or announcements about the contest. Except in extreme circumstances, COMAP will not send any confirmation, reminders, or announcements by email. All communication regarding the contest will be via the contest web site.
d.经常性地访问竞赛网站查看更新的说明或与竞赛有关的通知。除非在极端的情况下，COMAP是不会通过E-mail发出任何确认、提醒或是通知。所有与竞赛相关的消息将通过竞赛的网站发布。
e. You will return to the contest web site during the contest to enter and confirm information about your team, and to print out your team’s Control Sheet and Summary Sheets, which you will use when preparing your team’s solution packet. Details on these steps follow in the instructions below.
e. 返回组委会的网站，登陆并确认所有与您的队伍相关的资料，打印出您的队伍的控制和简历页面，这些将在您们准备参赛队的包裹密封的时候用到。请仔细阅读这些步骤的详细说明。
B. Choose your team members:
1. You must choose your team members before the contest begins at 8PM EST on Thursday February 9, 2012. Once the contest begins you may not add or change any team members (you may, however, remove a team member, if he or she decides not to participate).
2. Each team may consist of a maximum of three students.
3. Each student may participate on only one team.
4. Team members must be enrolled in school at the time of the contest, but they need not be full-time students. Team members must be enrolled at the same school as the advisor and other team members.
请确定参赛队成员：
1．您必须在在美国东部时间2012年2月9日（星期四）晚上8点大赛开始以前选择好您的参赛队的队员。一旦比赛开始，您将不能增加或是改变任何一个参赛队队员（但是如果参赛队员本人决定不参加比赛，您可以取消他/她的参赛资格）。
2．每个参赛队最多都只能由3名学生组成。
3．一个学生最多只能参加一个参赛队。
4．在比赛时间内，参赛队成员必须是在校学生，但可以不是全日制学生。参赛队成员和指导教师必须来自同一所学校。
II. AFTER THE CONTEST BEGINS:
A. View the contest problems via the contest web site:
Teams can view the contest problems via the contest web site when the contest begins at 8PM EST on Thursday February 9, 2012:
1.The contest problems will become available precisely at 8PM EST on Thursday February 9, 2011; team members can view them by visitinghttp://www.comap.com/undergraduate/contests/mcm. No password will be needed to view the problems; simply go to the contest website at or after 8PM EST on Thursday, February 9, 2010 and you will see a link to view the problems.
2. If you cannot access our main web site at that time, go to our mirror site at http://www.comap-math.com/mcm or click
here. If you cannot access either site, there may be a problem with your local Internet connection. Contact your local Internet service provider to resolve the issue.
2.竞赛开始之后'n# j4 ^0 S/ l9 g
A.通过网站的得到题目
美国东部时间2011年2月9日（星期四）晚上8点竞赛开始时，可以通过网站得到题目。S6 h+ T; r; t$ L4 `; T, q
1.赛题会于美国东部时间2011年2月9日（星期四）晚上8点公布：所有的参赛队员可以通过访问http://www.comap.com/undergraduate/contests/mcm.
得到赛题。无须任何密码，仅通过网页连接就可以得到赛题。
2、如果因为某些原因您无法直接访问到我们的主站，您也可以访问我们的镜像网站http://www.mirror.comap.com/mcm
或者点击这里。竞赛的网站和镜像网站位于美国不同地方的两个不同的网络中，所以如果两个网页都不能访问，说明您的本地internet链接有问题，请与您的Internet服务提供。
