Recent years have witnessed vigorous development in the application of mathematical and
computational techniques to many aspects of the organization and planning of sports …

This paper presents a comprehensive survey on the literature considering round robin
tournaments. The terminology used within the area has been modified over time and today it …

In this paper we propose an approximation for the Traveling Tournament Problem which is
the problem of designing a schedule for a sports league consisting of a set of teams T such …

The traveling tournament problem is a well-known combinatorial optimization problem with
direct applications to sport leagues scheduling, that sparked intensive algorithmic research …

Scheduling a sports league can be seen as a difficult combinatorial optimization problem.
We study some variants of round robin tournaments and analyze the relationship with the …

Optimization in sports is a field of increasing interest. The traveling tournament problem
abstracts certain characteristics of sports scheduling problems. We propose a new method …

Sports scheduling has been an extremely active area of research over the past twenty
20years. One important reason for this is that the computational methods for creating …

Sports scheduling has become an important area of applied operations research in recent
years, since satisfying fans and teams' requests and revenues of a sports league and TV …

In general scheduling a sports league is a difficult combinatorial optimization problem. We
study some variants of round robin tournaments and analyze the relationship with the planar …

The problem of sports tournament scheduling at a university sports event was the case
being studied due to the inefficiency of previous schedules and the dissatisfaction from the …