Scheduling a major college basketball conference (1998) [51 citations — 2 self]
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by George L. Nemhauser, Michael A. Trick
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@ARTICLE{Nemhauser98schedulinga,author = {George L. Nemhauser and Michael A. Trick},
title = {Scheduling a major college basketball conference},
journal = {Operations Research},
year = {1998},
volume = {46},
pages = {1--8}
}
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Abstract:
The nine universities in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) have a basketball competition in which each school plays home and away games against each other over a nine-week period. The creation of a suitable schedule is a very di cult problem with a myriad of con icting requirements and preferences. We develop an approach to scheduling problems that uses a combination of integer programming and enumerative techniques. Our approach yields reasonable schedules very quickly and gave aschedule that was accepted by the ACC for play in 1997{1998. 1
