This paper discusses the use of cyber security exercises and competitions to produce data valuable for security research. Cyber security exercises and competitions are primarily arranged to train participants and/or to offer competence contests for those with a profound interest in security. This paper discusses how exercises and competitions can be used as a basis for experimentation in the se...

Robotic competitions for students have been around for more than two decades. Although the benefits of these competitions can be exploited at various levels of education, recent examples have been following a trend towards higher complexity. In order to bring the pedagogical advantages of robotics competitions down to a level where they can be exploited by undergraduate and high school students...

Competitions in informatics are usually synonyms for algorithmic programming contests. Many of these competitions use automatic grading of the contestants’ solutions. This is done by running them on batches of input data and testing the correctness of the output. In this paper we will introduce a newly developed system called “MENDO”, which is used by the Macedonian Computer Society in the orga...

competitions demonstrate the usefulness of this approach.

We apply a Game Theoretical approach to analyze the competition between motoneurons (MNs) innervating a common muscle. A typical skeletal muscle consists of many thousands of fibers. At birth each muscle-fiber is innervated by several MNs, but during the first couple of weeks after birth, a competitive mechanism called “synapse elimination” abolishes all inputs but one, which we term “the winne...