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A note on a sports league scheduling problem (1410.2721v1)
Published 10 Oct 2014 in cs.DS
Abstract: Sports league scheduling is a difficult task in the general case. In this short note, we report two improvements to an existing enumerative search algorithm for a NP-hard sports league scheduling problem known as "prob026" in CSPLib. These improvements are based on additional rules to constraint and accelerate the enumeration process. The proposed approach is able to find a solution (schedule) for all prob026 instances for a number T of teams ranging from 12 to 70, including several T values for which a solution is reported for the first time.