Scheduling A Major College Basketball Conference

George L. Nemhauser and Michael A. Trick
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George L. Nemhauser: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Michael A. Trick: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Operations Research, 1998, vol. 46, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: The nine universities in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) have a basketball competition in which each school plays home and away games against each other over a nine-week period. The creation of a suitable schedule is a very difficult problem with a myriad of conflicting requirements and preferences. We develop an approach to scheduling problems that uses a combination of integer programming and enumerative techniques. Our approach yields reasonable schedules very quickly and gave a schedule that was accepted by the ACC for play in 1997-1998.

Keywords: Industries; recreation/sports; college basketball; Production/scheduling; applications; sports scheduling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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