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Fairness, Travel, and Market Potential: An Optimization Framework for NBA Expansion
Ali Hassanzadeh, Morteza Davari, Dries Goossens
The potential expansion of the National Basketball Association (NBA) to 32 teams raises the question of how to restructure its conferences and divisions while balancing travel effi…
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Balanced connected partitions of edge-weighted graphs: Hardness and solving methods
Morteza Davari, Phablo F. S. Moura, Hande Yaman
The balanced connected -partition problem (\textsc{bcp}) is a classic problem, which consists in partitioning the set of vertices of a vertex-weighted connected graph into a col…