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title: "A Simulated Annealing Approach to the Travelling Tournament Problem"
authors:
  - "Aris Anagnostopoulos"
  - "Laurent Michel"
  - "Pascal Van Hentenryck"
  - "Yannis Vergados"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2003/196"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2003/0196.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2003
pages: "1357-1357"
track: ""
keywords:
---

# A Simulated Annealing Approach to the Travelling Tournament Problem

Aris Anagnostopoulos, Laurent Michel, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Yannis Vergados

*Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1357-1357.

## Abstract

Automating the scheduling of sport leagues has received considerable attention in recent years. This paper considers the traveling tournament problem (TTP) proposed in [8; 4] to abstract the salient features of major league baseball (MLB) in the United States. It proposes a simulated annealing algorithm (TISA) for the TIP that produces significant improvements over previous approaches.