Stream C: Wednesday 11th August

10.50 - 12.30: Session1 - Sports Scheduling

10:50 - 11:15: Renjun Bao and Michael Trick. The Relaxed Traveling Tournament Problem.

11:15 - 11:40: Mike DiNunzio and Serge Kruk, Soccer Tournament Scheduling Using Constraint Programming.

11:40 - 12:05: Shinji Imahori, Tomomi Matsui and Ryuhei Miyashiro, An Approximation Algorithm for the Unconstrained Traveling Tournament Problem.

12:05 - 12:30: Bregje Buiteveld, Erik Van Holland, Gerhard Post and Dirk Smit, Round-Robin Tournaments with homogenous rounds.

13.30 - 15.10: Session2 - Sports Scheduling

13:30 - 13:55: Stephan Westphal and Karl Noparlik, A 5.875-Approximation for the Traveling Tournament Problem.

13:55 - 14:20: Tony Hürlimann, Swiss National Ice Hockey Tournament.

14:20 - 14:45: Douglas Moody, Amotz Bar Noy and Graham Kendall, An efficient and robust approach to generate high quality solutions for the Traveling Tournament Problem.

14:45 - 15:10: Douglas Moody, Amotz Bar Noy and Graham Kendall, Youth Sports League Scheduling.

15.30 - 17.00: Session3 - Sports Scheduling

15:30 - 15:50: Fernando Alarcón, Guillermo Durán and Mario Guajardo, Assigning referees to a Chilean football tournament by integer programming and patterns.

15:50 - 16:10: Mike Wright, Timetabling the major English cricket.

16:10 - 16:30: Nor Hayati Abdul Hamid, Graham Kendall and Naimah Mohd Hussin, A Statistical Method to Measure Match Importance in the Malaysian Super League.

16:30 - 16:50: Free Slot