We are delighted to announce the talk given by Dries Goossens (Ghent
University).
The title is "Sports scheduling: from consulting to science".
The seminar will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, May 10 at 13:00 UTC.
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https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/96538835333?pwd=bktZNDliS09sNllZeXh0aWFBdFpidz09
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You can follow the seminar online or offline on our Youtube channel as well:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUoCNnaAfw5NAntItILFn4A
The abstract follows.
Any sports competition needs a schedule, specifying when and where teams
meet each other. Apart from a number of pioneering theoretical results,
most sports timetabling contributions in the literature read as case
studies, describing a single problem instance for which a tailored
algorithm is developed and compared to a manual solution. While the
reported problems are challenging, and the algorithms made an impact in
practice, it is hard to assess algorithmic performance. Indeed,
real-life problem instances are rarely shared, and few realistic
benchmark instances are available. In this talk, we discuss our efforts
to obtain insights in the strengths and weaknesses of several
state-of-the-art sport scheduling algorithms, and to predict which
algorithm to select for which type of problem. The story covers the
development of a problem classification and unifying data format, the
generation of a set of diverse and realistic benchmark instance, the
organization of a timetabling competition, and an instance space
analysis for sports scheduling.
The next talk in our series will be:
Erwin Pesch (Uni of Siegen) | May 24 | Conflict-Free Crane Scheduling in
a Seaport Terminal.
For more details, please visit https://schedulingseminar.com/
With kind regards
Zdenek, Mike and Guohua
--
Zdenek Hanzalek
Industrial Informatics Department,
Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics,
Czech Technical University in Prague,
Jugoslavskych partyzanu 1580/3, 160 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic
https://rtime.ciirc.cvut.cz/~hanzalek/
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