Sports have worldwide appeal. Professional sport leagues involve significant investments in
players. Events such as the Olympics Games, the Football World Cup and the major golf and …

This paper reviews about 50 years of activity in OR as applied to sports. After some history
and an overview, including discussions of what we mean by sport and what we mean by OR …

GRASP is a multi-start metaheuristic for combinatorial optimization problems, in which each
iteration consists basically of two phases: construction and local search. The construction …

Greedy randomized adaptive search procedures, or GRASP, were introduced by T. Feo and
M. Resende in 1989 as a probabilistic heuristic for solving hard set covering problems. Soon …

A greedy randomized adaptive search procedure (GRASP) is a multi-start metaheuristic for
combinatorial optimization problems, in which each iteration consists basically of two …

Selection of players for a sports team within a finite budget is a complex task which can be
viewed as a constrained multi-objective optimization and a multiple criteria decision making …

GRASP is a multi-start metaheuristic for combinatorial optimization problems, in which each
iteration consists basically of two phases: construction and local search. The construction …

Sports scheduling problems mainly consist in determining the date and the venue in which
each game of a tournament will be played. Integer programming, constraint programming …

The scheduling needs of umpires and referees differ from the needs of sports teams. In
some sports leagues, such as Major League Baseball in the United States, umpires travel …

The project of this book emerged from the previous work of the three authors in the area of
sports scheduling. It has matured for some time. The authors have been collaborating since …