DocumentCode
3399156
Title
Scheduling the finnish major ice hockey league
Author
Kyngäs, Jari ; Nurmi, Kimmo
fYear
2009
fDate
April 2 2009-March 30 2009
Firstpage
84
Lastpage
89
Abstract
Generating a schedule for a professional sports league is an extremely demanding task. Good schedules have many benefits for the league, such as higher incomes, lower costs and more interesting and fairer seasons. This paper presents a successful way to schedule the Finnish major ice hockey league. The method is a combination of local search heuristics and evolutionary methods. The generated schedule is currently in use for the 2008-2009 season.
Keywords
evolutionary computation; scheduling; social sciences; sport; Finnish major ice hockey league; evolutionary methods; local search heuristics; professional sports league scheduling; Costs; Fans; Ice; Integer linear programming; Processor scheduling; Programming profession; Round robin; Scheduling algorithm; TV broadcasting; Terminology;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Computational Intelligence in Scheduling, 2009. CI-Sched '09. IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location
Nashville, TN
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-2757-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/SCIS.2009.4927019
Filename
4927019
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