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 …

Every sport needs rules. Tournament design refers to the rules that determine how a
tournament, a series of games between a number of competitors, is organized. This study …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Scheduling problems have been investigated since the late fifties. Two types of applications
have mainly motivated research in this area: project planning and machine scheduling …

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 …

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 …

Tournaments are a widely used mechanism to rank alternatives in a noisy environment. This
paper investigates a fundamental issue of economics in tournament design: what is the best …