Challenge rules

Challenge rules

  • Each team needs to register.
  • The team choose to participate by consuming SPARQL endpoints or Elasticsearch APIs.
  • All programming language can be used.
  • Any needed programming library can be used.
  • A software layer can be installed between the data sources and the querying program. It will need to be described.
  • No caching mechanism to store data can be used, the data needs to be fetched in real time while running the query.
  • The code needs to be submitted to GitHub before the 14th of July.
  • The solution submited needs to return the correct three molecules answer.
  • The team will be present at the live evaluation of their solution after submission.

Evaluation criteria

  • 50% for minimal bandwidth consumption
  • 30% for minimal execution time
  • 10% for elegance of the programming solution according to the judges
  • 10% for the presentation