Scheduling a Major College Basketball Conference---Revisited

Martin Henz ()
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Martin Henz: School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543

Operations Research, 2001, vol. 49, issue 1, 163-168

Abstract: Nemhauser and Trick presented the problem of finding a timetable for the 1997/1998 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) in basketball. Their solution, found with a combination of integer programming and exhaustive enumeration, was accepted by the ACC.Finite-domain constraint programming is another programming technique that can be used for solving combinatorial search problems such as sports tournament scheduling. This paper presents a solution of round-robin tournament planning based on finite-domain constraint programming. The approach yields a dramatic performance improvement, which makes an integrated interactive software solution feasible.

Keywords: Recreation; and; sports:; tournament; scheduling.; Programming:; constraint. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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