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Improved bounds for the traveling umpire problem: A stronger formulation and a relax-and-fix heuristic
de Oliveira, Lucas; Souza, Cid C. de; Yunes, Tallys - In: European Journal of Operational Research 236 (2014) 2, pp. 592-600
Given a double round-robin tournament, the traveling umpire problem (TUP) consists of determining which games will be handled by each one of several umpire crews during the tournament. The objective is to minimize the total distance traveled by the umpires, while respecting constraints that...
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Decomposition and local search based methods for the traveling umpire problem
Wauters, Tony; Van Malderen, Sam; Vanden Berghe, Greet - In: European Journal of Operational Research 238 (2014) 3, pp. 886-898
Major League Baseball. The TUP aims at assigning umpire crews to the games of a fixed tournament, minimizing the travel …
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Das Geschäft mit dem Sport
Ortner, Helmut - 1987
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Zur Soziologie der Konsumwerbung
Dolberg, Ingwalt - 1981
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Major League Baseball: America’s Recession-Proof Pastime
McDonnell, Mark - 2010
This project is a study which examines how attendance levels in Major League Baseball stadiums have been impacted by … shown a strong relationship that during downtrends in the economy, baseball attendance levels generally do not suffer. Using …
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Interkommunale Zusammenarbeit im Fremdenverkehrsbereich : zugleich ein Beitrag zur ökonomischen Analyse des Zweckverbandes
Klemz, Wolfgang - 1989
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Beautiful Game Theory: How Soccer Can Help Economics
Palacios-Huerta, Ignacio - Princeton University Press
economics can provide insight into many aspects of sports, including soccer. Beautiful Game Theory is the first book that uses …-Huerta illuminates economics through the world’s most popular sport. He offers unique and often startling insights into game theory and … on universal economic principles in interesting and useful ways. Essential reading for students, researchers, and sports …
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Beautiful Game Theory: How Soccer Can Help Economics
Palacios-Huerta, Ignacio - Princeton University Press
can provide insight into many aspects of sports, including soccer. Beautiful Game Theory is the first book that uses …-Huerta illuminates economics through the world’s most popular sport. He offers unique and often startling insights into game theory and … on universal economic principles in interesting and useful ways. Essential reading for students, researchers, and sports …
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Customer Discrimination and Fernandomania
Nutting, Andrew W. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 13 (2012) 4, pp. 406-430
This article tests for customer discrimination by examining attendance boosts associated with the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher and Mexican national Fernando Valenzuela. Fernando’s starts were associated with higher attendance at games beginning in 1981 and as late as 1987, and as late as...
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Integration of North and South American Players in Japan's Professional Baseball Leagues Teams in Japan’s two professional baseball leagues began to add foreign players to their ro...
Kawaura, Akihiko; La Croix, Sumner - University of Hawai'i Economic Research Organization … - 2011
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