Complexity of the traveling tournament problem

C Thielen, S Westphal - Theoretical Computer Science, 2011 - Elsevier
We consider the complexity of the traveling tournament problem, which is a well-known
benchmark problem in tournament timetabling. The problem was supposed to be …

[PDF][PDF] Improved approximation algorithms for the traveling tournament problem

J Zhao, M Xiao, C Xu - 47th International Symposium on …, 2022 - drops.dagstuhl.de
Abstract The Traveling Tournament Problem (TTP) is a well-known benchmark problem in
the field of tournament timetabling, which asks us to design a double round-robin schedule …

[PDF][PDF] The Traveling Tournament Problem with Maximum Tour Length Two: A Practical Algorithm with An Improved Approximation Bound.

J Zhao, M Xiao - IJCAI, 2021 - ijcai.org
Abstract The Traveling Tournament Problem is a wellknown benchmark problem in
tournament timetabling, which asks us to design a schedule of home/away games of n …

An improved scheduling algorithm for traveling tournament problem with maximum trip length two

D Chatterjee, BK Roy - arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.09065, 2021 - arxiv.org
The Traveling Tournament Problem (TTP) is a combinatorial optimization problem where we
have to give a scheduling algorithm which minimizes the total distance traveled by all the …

Complexity of traveling tournament problem with trip length more than three

D Chatterjee - arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.02300, 2021 - arxiv.org
The Traveling Tournament Problem is a sports-scheduling problem where the goal is to
minimize the total travel distance of teams playing a double round-robin tournament. The …

[PDF][PDF] Too Constrained for Genetic Algorithms too Hard for Evolutionary Computing the Traveling Tournament Problem.

K Verduin, SL Thomson, D van den Berg - IJCCI, 2023 - scitepress.org
Unlike other NP-hard problems, the constraints on the traveling tournament problem are so
pressing that it's hardly possible to randomly generate a valid solution, for example, to use in …

Complexity of the unconstrained traveling tournament problem

R Bhattacharyya - Operations Research Letters, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Traveling Tournament problem is a problem of scheduling round robin leagues
which minimizes the total travel distance maintaining some constraints on consecutive home …

The linear distance traveling tournament problem allows an EPTAS

J Zhao, M Xiao - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Abstract The Traveling Tournament Problem (TTP-k) is a well-known benchmark problem in
tournament timetabling and has been extensively studied in the field of AI. In this problem …

A 1+ O (1/n) approximation algorithm for TTP (2)

S Imahori - arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.08444, 2021 - arxiv.org
The traveling tournament problem is a well-known benchmark problem of the sports
scheduling. We propose an approximation algorithm for the traveling tournament problem …

A further improvement on approximating TTP-2

J Zhao, M Xiao - International Computing and Combinatorics …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Traveling Tournament Problem (TTP) is a hard but interesting sports
scheduling problem inspired by Major League Baseball, which is to design a double round …