Sports Timetabling Papers
2022
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(2022). Optimizing rest times and differences in games played: an iterative two-phase approach. Journal of Scheduling. 25, 261–271.
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(2022). A fix-and-optimize heuristic for the ITC2021 sports timetabling problem. Journal of Scheduling. 25, 273–286.
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(2022). Pseudo-Boolean optimisation for RobinX sports timetabling. Journal of Scheduling. 25, 287–299.
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(2022). Multi-neighborhood simulated annealing for the sports timetabling competition ITC2021. Journal of Scheduling. 25, 301–319.
2019
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(2019). The sport teams grouping problem. Annals of Operations Research. 275, 223–243.
2016
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(2016). A combined local search and integer programming approach to the traveling tournament problem. Annals of Operations Research. 239, 343–354.
2014
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(2014). A 5.875-approximation for the Traveling Tournament Problem. Annals of Operations Research. 218, 347-360.
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(2014). Decomposition and local search based methods for the traveling umpire problem. European Journal of Operational Research. 238(3),
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(2014). Round-robin tournaments with homogeneous rounds. Annals of Operations Research. 218, 115-128.
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(2014). A 2.75-approximation algorithm for the unconstrained traveling tournament problem. Annals of Operations Research. 218, 237-247.
2012
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(2012). Scheduling Major League Baseball Umpires and the Traveling Umpire Problem. Interfaces. 42, 232-244.
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(2012). Locally Optimized Crossover for the Traveling Umpire Problem. European Journal of Operational Research. 216, 286 - 292.
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(2012). An ILS heuristic for the traveling tournament problem with predefined venues. Annals of Operations Research. 194, 137-150.
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(2012). Sports scheduling: Problems and applications. International Transactions in Operational Research. 19, 201–226.
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(2012). Comparing league formats with respect to match importance in Belgian football. Annals of Operations Research. 194, 223-240.
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(2012). An effective greedy heuristic for the Social Golfer Problem. Annals of Operations Research. 194, 413-425.
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(2012). An approximation algorithm for the traveling tournament problem. Annals of Operations Research. 194, 317-324.
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(2012). An improved SAT formulation for the social golfer problem. Annals of Operations Research. 194, 427-438.
2011
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(2011). Benders' cuts guided large neighborhood search for the traveling umpire problem. Naval Research Logistics (NRL). 58, 771–781.
2010
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(2010). Scheduling in sports: An annotated bibliography. Computers & Operations Research. 37, 1 - 19.
2007
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(2007). Constructive Algorithms for the Constant Distance Traveling Tournament Problem. (Burke, E. K., & Rudová H., Ed.).Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling VI. 3867, 135-146.
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(2007). Scheduling the Brazilian Soccer Tournament with Fairness and Broadcast Objectives. (Burke, E. K., & Rudová H., Ed.).Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling VI. 3867, 147-157.
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(2007). Referee Assignment in Sports Leagues. (Burke, E. K., & Rudová H., Ed.).Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling VI. 3867, 158-173.
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(2007). A Branch-and-Cut Algorithm for Scheduling the Highly-Constrained Chilean Soccer Tournament. (Burke, E. K., & Rudová H., Ed.).Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling VI. 3867, 174-186.
2003
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(2003). Integer and Constraint Programming Approaches for Round-Robin Tournament Scheduling. (Burke, E. K., & De Causmaecker P., Ed.).Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling IV. 2740, 63-77.
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(2003). Characterizing Feasible Pattern Sets with a Minimum Number of Breaks. (Burke, E. K., & De Causmaecker P., Ed.).Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling IV. 2740, 78-99.
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(2003). Solving the Travelling Tournament Problem: A Combined Integer Programming and Constraint Programming Approach. (Burke, E. K., & De Causmaecker P., Ed.).Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling IV. 2740, 100-109.
2001
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(2001). A Schedule-Then-Break Approach to Sports Timetabling. (Burke, E. K., & Erben W., Ed.).Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling III. 2079, 242-253.
1998
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(1998). Construction of basic match schedules for sports competitions by using graph theory. (Burke, E. K., & Carter M. W., Ed.).Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling II. 1408, 201-210.