Sports Leagues Scheduling Models, Combinatorial Properties, and Optimization Algorithms /

• Main Author: Briskorn, Dirk (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 603
• Subjects: Business.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Service industries.; Mathematical optimization.; Management science.; Discrete mathematics.; Combinatorics.; Business and Management.; Services.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Discrete Mathematics.; Optimization.; Operations Research, Management Science.

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 an operational and a security point of view, attractive for spectators and tv channels, and fair for the conamp...

Table of Contents:

• Basic Problems
• Real World Problems
• Combinatorial Properties of Strength Groups
• Home-Away-Pattern Based Branching Schemes
• Branch—and—Price Algorithm
• Conclusions and Outlook.