Some models of graphs for scheduling sports competitions
Discrete Applied Mathematics
A constrained sports scheduling problem
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Combinatorial aspects of construction of competition Dutch Professional Football Leagues
Discrete Applied Mathematics - Special issue: Timetabling and chromatic scheduling
Primal-dual interior-point methods
Primal-dual interior-point methods
Minimization of the number of breaks in sports scheduling problems using constraint programming
DIMACS workshop on on Constraint programming and large scale discrete optimization
Scheduling a Major College Basketball Conference
Operations Research
Scheduling a Major College Basketball Conference--Revisited
Operations Research
Integer optimization by local search: a domain-independent approach
Integer optimization by local search: a domain-independent approach
Fashioning fair foursomes for the fairway (using a spreadsheet-based DSS as the driver)
Decision Support Systems
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The Missouri Valley Conference uses travel swings, in which a team plays two opponents during one road trip, to reduce the expenses for their college basketball programs. While these swings are financially beneficial, they significantly complicate the scheduling process. In particular, the swings alter the structure of the schedule by allowing games to occur outside of the standard time slots into which games are typically assigned. An integer programming formulation was developed that incorporates these swings into the scheduling problem. This program was solved efficiently by assigning swings first, then fitting remaining games around the swings. This generated a large number of candidate schedules, one of which was used for the 2001 season.