TY  - BOOK
AU  - Briskorn,Dirk
TI  - Sports leagues scheduling: models, combinatorial properties, and optimization algorithms 
SN  - 9783540755173
U1  - 338.47796 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Berlin
PB  - Springer
KW  - Scheduling
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Sports administration
N1  - In the context of sports leagues scheduling (SLS) several groups' interests must be taken into account. This book treats requirements for sport leagues schedules to be realizable from an operational and a security point of view, attractive for spectators and TV channels, and fair for the competing teams. Formal problem definitions as well as integer programming models are presented and analyzed. Additionally, several fairness concepts are developed and their operability is investigated by means of graph theory. Moreover, this book presents algorithmic concepts that can be drawn upon to construct suitable schedules. This volume provides a deep understanding of problems arising in the context of SLS as well as approaches for dealing with these problems, being relevant for both theoreticians and practitioners
ER  -