Extract from preliminary contest result announcement

Dear CoIL Challenge 2000 Participant,

147 participants registered, of which 43 have sent in a solution. This is a response rate of

nearly 30%, which is quite high..

For the prediction task the winner is:

Charles Elkan

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

University of California, San Diego

USA

Result: 121 caravan policies within the first 800 selected customers.

With runner ups:

Petri Kontkanen

University of Helsinki

Finland

Result: 115 caravan policies within the first 800 selected customers.

Andrew Greenyer

The Database Group

UK

Result: 112 caravan policies within the first 800 selected customers.

and

Arnold Koudijs

Cap Gemini Nederland BV

The Netherlands

Result: 112 caravan policies within the first 800 selected customers.