prob026: round robin tournaments

proposed by Toby Walsh
tw@cs.york.ac.uk

References

Constraint Based Round Robin Tournament Planning by Martin Henz. Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Logic Programming, MIT Press.

Friar Tuck by Martin Henz. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 15(1):5-7, 2000.

A Schedule then Break Approach to Sports Scheduling by Michael Trick (accepted at PATAT 3 in Konstanz).

Scheduling Sport Tournaments using Constraint Logic Programming, Andrea Schaerf, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) report PNA-R9707, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1997. A revised version appeared in CONSTRAINTS 4(1) 43--65, 1999.

Pascal van Henyenryck et al., Constraint Programming in OPL, PPDP'99, © Springer Verlag

Pascal van Henyenryck, A Preview of OPL, PACLP'2000.

J.P. Hamiez and J.K. Hao, Solving the Sports League Scheduling Problem with Tabu Search. ECAI-2000 Workshop on Local Search for Planning and Scheduling, Berlin, August, 2000.

A comrephensive page of links prepared by Mike Trick.

Tournament scheduling software links and comparison chart.

See also prob011, the ACC basketball scheduling problem which is an example of a round robin problem.