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The uncertainty of a tournament draw: Insights from the Champions League
László Csató, András Gyimesi, Dries Goossens +3
The group draw of major sports tournaments implies some uncertainty, with lucky teams often enjoying a substantial unfair advantage. First in the literature, we propose a technique…
Ranking matters: Does the new format select the best teams for the knockout phase in the UEFA Champions League?
László Csató, Karel Devriesere, Dries Goossens +3
Starting in the 2024/25 season, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has fundamentally changed the format of its club competitions: the group stage has been replaced…
Scheduling jobs that change over time
Roel Lambers, Rudi Pendavingh, Frits Spieksma +1
We consider a 1-machine scheduling problem where the temperature of a job rises during processing, and cools down when not being processed according to given linear heating and coo…
How to Design a Stable Serial Knockout Competition
Frits Spieksma, Rudi Pendavingh, Roel Lambers
We investigate a new tournament format that consists of a series of individual knockout tournaments; we call this new format a Serial Knockout Competition (SKC). This format has re…
Integer Programming Models for Round Robin Tournaments
Jasper van Doornmalen, Christopher Hojny, Roel Lambers +1
Round robin tournaments are omnipresent in sport competitions and beyond. We propose two new integer programming formulations for scheduling a round robin tournament, one of which…
Minimum Scan Cover and Variants -- Theory and Experiments
Kevin Buchin, Sándor P. Fekete, Alexander Hill +5
We consider a spectrum of geometric optimization problems motivated by contexts such as satellite communication and astrophysics. In the problem Minimum Scan Cover with Angular Cos…