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The Traveling Tournament Problem: An Overview
David Van Bulck, Fan Yang, Dries Goossens +1
Over the past 25 years, the Traveling Tournament Problem (TTP) has become one of the most extensively studied optimization problems in sports scheduling. At its core, the TTP seeks…
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…
Tournament design: A review from an operational research perspective
Karel Devriesere, László Csató, Dries Goossens
Every sport needs rules. Tournament design refers to the rules that determine how a tournament, a series of games between a number of competitors, is organized. This study aims to…
Which algorithm to select in sports timetabling?
David Van Bulck, Dries Goossens, Jan-Patrick Clarner +7
Any sports competition needs a timetable, specifying when and where teams meet each other. The recent International Timetabling Competition (ITC2021) on sports timetabling showed t…
Fair integer programming under dichotomous and cardinal preferences
Tom Demeulemeester, Dries Goossens, Ben Hermans +1
One cannot make truly fair decisions using integer linear programs unless one controls the selection probabilities of the (possibly many) optimal solutions. For this purpose, we pr…
A pessimist's approach to one-sided matching
Tom Demeulemeester, Dries Goossens, Ben Hermans +1
Inspired by real-world applications such as the assignment of pupils to schools or the allocation of social housing, the one-sided matching problem studies how a set of agents can…