Title
Scheduling the Italian National Volleyball Tournament
Abstract
AbstractIn this paper, we present our approach to sports scheduling, a process that led the Italian Volleyball League to adopt our calendar for the 2016-2017 and subsequent seasons. Sports scheduling is a hard combinatorial optimization problem whose solution requires modeling many different aspects of sports, some of which are unique to each sport or nation. The capability of producing a high-quality schedule is important for both balancing undesirable matches among teams and ensuring adequate coverage by television and other media. Through strong interaction with the Italian Volleyball League, we modeled and solved the problem to optimality using standard mathematical programming solvers. We also tested our solution using previous seasons' tournaments to prove the capability of our model.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1287/inte.2017.0932
Periodicals
Keywords
Field
DocType
sports scheduling, round-robin tournament, mixed-integer programming, volleyball
Tournament,Combinatorial optimization problem,Scheduling (computing),League,Operations research,Integer programming,Engineering,Management science
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
48
3
0092-2102
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.37
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guido Cocchi120.37
Alessandro Galligari292.43
Federica Picca Nicolino320.37
Veronica Piccialli425920.63
F. Schoen516914.42
M. Sciandrone633529.01