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Evaluating Competitiveness in UEFA's New Champions League Format
Karel Devriesere, Dries Goossens, Frits Spieksma
Recently, UEFA changed the group stage of its international soccer competitions to an incomplete round robin tournament. Previously, teams were divided into groups, each playing a…
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…
Disjoint Tours and the Price of Diversity
Mark de Berg, Andrés López Martínez, Frits Spieksma
We study a variant of the Traveling Salesman Problem, where instead of finding a single tour, we want to find a pair of two edge-disjoint tours whose longer tour is as short as pos…
Parameterized Complexity of Directed Traveling Salesman Problem
Václav Blažej, Andreas Emil Feldmann, Foivos Fioravantes +2
The Directed Traveling Salesman Problem (DTSP) is a variant of the classical Traveling Salesman Problem in which the edges in the graph are directed and a vertex and edge can be vi…
Finding Diverse Solutions in Combinatorial Problems with a Distributive Lattice Structure
Mark de Berg, Andrés López Martínez, Frits Spieksma
We generalize the polynomial-time solvability of -\textsc{Diverse Minimum s-t Cuts} (De Berg et al., ISAAC'23) to a wider class of combinatorial problems whose solution sets hav…
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…