An application of the traveling tournament problem: the Argentine volleyball league

Autores
Bonomo, Flavia; Cardemil, Andres; Duran, Guillermo Alfredo; Marenco, Javier Leonardo; Sabán, Daniela Hilén
Año de publicación
2012
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inglés
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This article describes the optimization process used to schedule the First Division of Argentina’s professional volleyball league. The teams in the league are grouped into couples and matches are held on Thursdays and Saturdays. In every pair of consecutive Thursday-Saturday matches, the two teams in each couple play against two teams from another couple. Minimization of travel distances is critical since the teams’ home locations are scattered throughout the country and teams do not return their home sites between consecutive away matches, making this problem a variation of the well-known traveling tournament problem. The coupled format gives rise to two key decisions: (a) how to couple the teams and (b) how to schedule the matches. We apply integer programming techniques and a tabu search heuristic to solve these issues. The resulting schedules have been successfully used in the 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, and 2010-2011 league seasons, reducing the total travel distance while meeting all of the teams’ requirements. This is the first reported application of the traveling tournament problem to a real-world sports league in the optimization literature.
Fil: Bonomo, Flavia. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Computación; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Cardemil, Andres. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Computación; Argentina
Fil: Duran, Guillermo Alfredo. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Cálculo; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Marenco, Javier Leonardo. Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento. Instituto de Ciencias; Argentina
Fil: Sabán, Daniela Hilén. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Computación; Argentina
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Sports Scheduling
Integer Programming
Traveling Tournament Problem
Team Couples
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv An application of the traveling tournament problem: the Argentine volleyball league
title An application of the traveling tournament problem: the Argentine volleyball league
spellingShingle An application of the traveling tournament problem: the Argentine volleyball league
Bonomo, Flavia
Sports Scheduling
Integer Programming
Traveling Tournament Problem
Team Couples
title_short An application of the traveling tournament problem: the Argentine volleyball league
title_full An application of the traveling tournament problem: the Argentine volleyball league
title_fullStr An application of the traveling tournament problem: the Argentine volleyball league
title_full_unstemmed An application of the traveling tournament problem: the Argentine volleyball league
title_sort An application of the traveling tournament problem: the Argentine volleyball league
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Bonomo, Flavia
Cardemil, Andres
Duran, Guillermo Alfredo
Marenco, Javier Leonardo
Sabán, Daniela Hilén
author Bonomo, Flavia
author_facet Bonomo, Flavia
Cardemil, Andres
Duran, Guillermo Alfredo
Marenco, Javier Leonardo
Sabán, Daniela Hilén
author_role author
author2 Cardemil, Andres
Duran, Guillermo Alfredo
Marenco, Javier Leonardo
Sabán, Daniela Hilén
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author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Sports Scheduling
Integer Programming
Traveling Tournament Problem
Team Couples
topic Sports Scheduling
Integer Programming
Traveling Tournament Problem
Team Couples
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.1
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv This article describes the optimization process used to schedule the First Division of Argentina’s professional volleyball league. The teams in the league are grouped into couples and matches are held on Thursdays and Saturdays. In every pair of consecutive Thursday-Saturday matches, the two teams in each couple play against two teams from another couple. Minimization of travel distances is critical since the teams’ home locations are scattered throughout the country and teams do not return their home sites between consecutive away matches, making this problem a variation of the well-known traveling tournament problem. The coupled format gives rise to two key decisions: (a) how to couple the teams and (b) how to schedule the matches. We apply integer programming techniques and a tabu search heuristic to solve these issues. The resulting schedules have been successfully used in the 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, and 2010-2011 league seasons, reducing the total travel distance while meeting all of the teams’ requirements. This is the first reported application of the traveling tournament problem to a real-world sports league in the optimization literature.
Fil: Bonomo, Flavia. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Computación; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Cardemil, Andres. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Computación; Argentina
Fil: Duran, Guillermo Alfredo. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Cálculo; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Marenco, Javier Leonardo. Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento. Instituto de Ciencias; Argentina
Fil: Sabán, Daniela Hilén. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Computación; Argentina
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