2 papers
physics.soc-ph2025
Fairness, Travel, and Market Potential: An Optimization Framework for NBA Expansion
Ali Hassanzadeh, Morteza Davari, Dries Goossens
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is actively considering the addition of two expansion teams, raising the question of how to restructure its conferences and divisions to b…
cs.DS2025
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…