Recent years have witnessed vigorous development in the application of mathematical and
computational techniques to many aspects of the organization and planning of sports …

The sport teams grouping problem (STGP) concerns the assignment of sport teams to round-
robin tournaments. The objective is to minimize the total travel distance of the participating …

In this paper, an airport ground service task assignment problem is studied. A task
represents a service, which must be performed by one or multiple ground crew of a shift with …

New strategies are proposed for implementing algorithms based on Branch and Bound
scheme. Those include two minimal spanning tree lower bound modifications, a design …

Given a double round-robin tournament, the Traveling Umpire Problem (TUP) seeks to
assign umpires to the games of the tournament while minimizing the total distance traveled …

Abstract The Traveling Umpire Problem (TUP) is a combinatorial optimization problem
concerning the assignment of umpires to the games of a fixed double round-robin …

In this study, a mathematical programming model is developed for a single round-robin
tournament problem to provide a schedule for the preliminary round of the Volleyball …

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Purpose/Rationale: Referee appointments to football fixtures are made behind closed doors
and only a handful of people in respective committees fully know what the policies …

In this paper, we develop an Answer Set Programming (ASP) solution to the Travelling
Umpire Problem (TUP). We investigate a number of different ways to improve the …