TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ribeiro,Celso C.
AU  - Urrutia,Sebastián
AU  - de Werra,Dominique
TI  - Combinatorial Models for Scheduling Sports Tournaments
T2  - EURO Advanced Tutorials on Operational Research,
SN  - 9783031372834
U1  - 658.403 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Operations research
KW  - Management science
KW  - Mathematical optimization
KW  - Calculus of variations
KW  - Sports
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Operations Research and Decision Theory
KW  - Operations Research, Management Science
KW  - Calculus of Variations and Optimization
KW  - Sports Economics
N1  - Leagues, tournaments, and schedules -- Combinatorial structures -- Metaheuristics and local search -- Integer programming approaches -- Case studies.
N2  - 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 scheduling. The methods presented in this book are essential to sports scheduling in all its dimensions, from tournaments that are followed by millions of people across the world, with broadcast rights that amount to hundreds of millions of dollars in some competitions, to amateur leagues that require coordination and logistical efforts due to the large number of tournaments and competitors
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37283-4
ER  -