Sunday, May 19, 2024

[DMANET] Workshop Fairness in Sports

Ghent University is excited to host the third edition of the "Fairness in Sports" workshop, continuing a tradition that began in Ghent in 2018 and was followed by an engaging session in London the same year. The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners with an interest in sports research, and fairness issues in particular. The program includes the following speakers:

** Juan-Moreno Ternero: "Fair resource allocation in sports competitions"

** Laszlo Csato: "Random matching in balanced bipartite graphs: The (un)fairness of draw mechanisms used in sports"

** Frits Spieksma: "Fair Schedules for Single Round Robin Tournaments with Ranked Participants"

** Alessandro Di Mattia: "The Effect of a Structural Change in Round-Robin Tournaments with Four Teams: Evidence from Beach Volleyball"

** Joonas Pääkkönen: "Hard-to-solve Rogaining Competitions"

** Dóra Gréta Petróczy: "Alternative UEFA country rankings based on pairwise comparisons"

** Julien Guyon: TBA

** Morteza Davari: "Redefining NBA Divisions: A Blueprint for NBA Expansion"

** Felix Otto: "Measures to increase fairness in subjective performance evaluations"

** Mehmet Ismail: "Fairer Tournaments: Matching and Scoring Players in Games (Like Chess) and Sports (Like Soccer)"

The workshop is a 1-day event, which will take place on June 11th, 2024, in the historic city of Ghent, Belgium.

Registration is required, but free (extended deadline: May 26th).

For more information, please visit our website at https://www.sportscheduling.ugent.be/FairnessInSports


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