3 papers
math.OC2026
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…
math.OC2026
Novel neighborhood structures for incomplete round robin sports tournaments
Karel Devriesere, David Van Bulck, Dries Goossens
The incomplete round robin sports tournament format, where each team plays the same number of games but faces only a subset of the other teams, is becoming increasingly popular in…
cs.AI2023
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…