Celso C. Ribeiro, Sebastián Urrutia, Dominique de Werra
This book introduces solutions for sports scheduling problems in a variety of settings. In particular the book covers timetabling, the traveling tournament problem, carryover minimization, breaks minimization, tournament design, tournament planning, and referee assignment. A rich selection of applications to sports such as football, baseball, basketball, cricket or hockey are employed to illustrate the methods and techniques. In a step-by-step tutorial format the book describes the use of graph theory concepts, local search operators and integer programming in the context of sports...
This book introduces solutions for sports scheduling problems in a variety of settings. In particular the book covers timetabling, the traveling to...