Sports have worldwide appeal. Professional sport leagues involve significant investments in
players. Events such as the Olympics Games, the Football World Cup and the major golf and …

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 …

Many sports leagues organize their competitions as round‐robin tournaments. This
tournament design has a rich mathematical structure that has been studied in the literature …

The traveling tournament problem is a well-known benchmark problem of the sports
scheduling. We propose an approximation algorithm for the traveling tournament problem …

Generating a schedule for a professional sports league is an extremely demanding task.
Good schedules have many benefits for the league, such as higher attendance and TV …

Generally speaking in sports competition a number of teams play against each other over a
period of time according to a certain scheme. The round robin scheme is very popular in …

A single round robin tournament can be described as a league of a set T of n teams (n even)
to be scheduled such that each team plays exactly once against each other team and such …

In the context of sports leagues scheduling (SLS) several groups' interests must be taken
into account. This book treats requirements for sport leagues schedules to be realizable from …

Almost all economic activities in modern societies are scattered through space and time.
Transport processes, as a consequence, pervade everyday life and they have deep impact …

Tournament schedules of sports leagues have to satisfy several types of constraints such as
stadium unavailability, fixed matches, forbidden matches, minimum number of breaks …