Wright (2014) recently presented a survey of sporting rules from an Operational Research
(OR) perspective. He surveyed 21 sports, which consider the rules of sports and …

Since COVID-19 first appeared, e-learning has become more and more common. In order to
understand gender disparities in e-learners' self-efficacy, satisfaction, motivation, attitude …

This book is intended to be a practical study guide that complements the growing body of
guidance on research methodology, and in particular complements the specialised niche of …

This is not so much a foreword as a testimonial. As I embarked on the pleasant journey of
reading through the chapters of this book, I became convinced that this is one of the best …

Graph colouring is one of those rare examples in the mathematical sciences of a problem
that, while easy to state and visualise, has many aspects that are exceptionally difficult to …

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 …

Sports timetabling problems are combinatorial optimization problems which consist of
creating a timetable that defines against whom, when, and where teams play games. In the …

Electronic sports tournaments are well adapted to dynamic scheduling. A dynamic approach
for scheduling e-sports tournaments based on a modification of the Swiss system design is …

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

Referees are key sport personnel who have important responsibilities both on-and off-the
field. Organized competition would not survive without referees, yet little is known about …