Determining matchdays in sports league schedules to minimize rest differences

DOI10.1016/J.ORL.2020.03.001MaRDI QIDQ2183190zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Burak Cavdaroglu, Tankut S. Atan

Publication date 26 May 2020

Published in Operations Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2020.03.001

zbMATH Keywords

OR in sportssports schedulingcanonical schedulesrest differencestournament fairness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear programming (90C05) Deterministic scheduling theory in operations research (90B35) Integer programming (90C10)

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• A traditional Benders' approach to sports timetabling

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