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Sports administration --- Sports tournaments --- Management

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This book introduces solutions for sports scheduling problems in a variety of settings. In particular the book covers timetabling, the traveling tournament problem, carryover minimization, breaks minimization, tournament design, tournament planning, and referee assignment. A rich selection of applications to sports such as football, baseball, basketball, cricket or hockey are employed to illustrate the methods and techniques. In a step-by-step tutorial format the book describes the use of graph theory concepts, local search operators and integer programming in the context of sports scheduling. The methods presented in this book are essential to sports scheduling in all its dimensions, from tournaments that are followed by millions of people across the world, with broadcast rights that amount to hundreds of millions of dollars in some competitions, to amateur leagues that require coordination and logistical efforts due to the large number of tournaments and competitors.

Combinatorial analysis. --- Scheduling --- Sports tournaments --- Mathematical models. --- Management.

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Data mining. --- Machine learning. --- Soccer --- Tournaments. --- Sports tournaments --- Learning, Machine --- Artificial intelligence --- Machine theory --- Algorithmic knowledge discovery --- Factual data analysis --- KDD (Information retrieval) --- Knowledge discovery in data --- Knowledge discovery in databases --- Mining, Data --- Database searching

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The spectacle of major cultural and sporting events can preoccupy modern societies. This book is concerned with contemporary mega-events, like the Olympics and Expos. Using a sociological perspective Roche argues that mega-events reflect the major social changes which now influence our societies, particularly in the West, and that these amount to a new 'second phase' of the modernization process. Changes are particularly visible in the media, urban and global locational aspects of mega-events. Thus he suggests that contemporary mega-events, both in their achievements and their vulnerabilities, reflect, in the media sphere, the rise of the internet; in the urban sphere, de-industrialisation and the growing ecological crisis; and in the global sphere, the relative decline of the West and the rise of China and other 'emerging' countries.

Social change. --- Special events --- Entertainment events --- Olympics --- Sports tournaments --- Tournaments --- Tournaments, Sports --- Contests --- Games, Olympic --- Olympic games --- Summer Olympics --- Sports --- Amusements --- Events, Special --- Manners and customs --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Social aspects. --- Expos. --- Olympics. --- People's Republic of China. --- digital revolution. --- ecological crisis. --- geopolitical relations. --- global ecological crisis. --- globalisation. --- green impacts. --- mega-events. --- modernisation processes. --- performative spectacles. --- space-making impacts. --- urbanisation.