[Apdio] Palestra "Optimization in Sports", INESC Porto

[Ana Viana <aviana@inescporto.pt>]

Caros colegas,

Convidamo-los a assistir à Palestra:

OPTIMIZATION IN SPORTS

Orador: Professor Celso Ribeiro - Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil
Local: INESC Porto
Dia: 7 Novembro 2008
Hora: 16h30m

Para informações adicionais, contactar: Ana Viana (aviana@inescporto.pt)


Com os melhores cumprimentos,

Ana Viana
(INESC Porto/ISEP)

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__Resumo:__

Professional sport leagues involve millions of fans and significant 
investments in players, broadcast rights, merchandising, and 
advertising. Multiple agents, such  as the organizers, media, players, 
fans, security forces, and airlines, play important roles in the leagues 
and tournaments. Professional sports leagues are therefore part of a 
major economic activity and face challenging optimization problems.  On 
the other side, amateur leagues usually do not involve impressive 
amounts of  money, but instead the number of tournaments and competitors 
can be very large, also requiring coordination and logistic efforts.

The field of sports scheduling and management  has been attracting the 
attention of an increasing number of  researchers in multidisciplinary 
areas such as operations research, scheduling theory, constraint  
programming, graph theory,  combinatorial  optimization, and applied 
mathematics. Different  optimization techniques  have been applied to  
solve problems arising from  sports scheduling and  management. The 
hardness of the problems in the field lead to the use of a  number of 
exact and approximate approaches, including integer programming, 
constraint programming, metaheuristics, and hybrid methods. Problems  
associated with the scheduling of  round robin tournaments are of 
particular  importance, due to their relevance in practice and  to their 
interesting  mathematical structure.

We review some applications of metaheuristics to different scheduling 
problems in sports, such as the traveling tournament problem, referee 
assignment, and the minimization of the carry-over effect. We also 
report real-life applications to tournament scheduling. Recent advances 
in metaheuristics are also illustrated in the context of these 
applications.



__Orador:__

O Professor Celso Ribeiro é Licenciado em Engenharia Eléctrica pela 
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (1976), Mestre  em 
Engenharia  de Sistemas e Computação  pela  COPPE/UFRJ  (1978) e 
doutorado em Informática  pela École  Nationale Supérieure  des  
Télécommunications  (1983).

É Professor Titular da Universidade Federal  Fluminense. Foi professor 
titular da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro,  onde 
exerceu o cargo de Director dos Departamentos de Engenharia Eléctrica 
(1985-1989) e de Informática (1993-1995).

O seu trabalho de investigação foca, principalmente, as Ciência da 
Computação e a Optimização Combinatória, com ênfase em meta-heurísticas 
e processamento paralelo. Tem aplicações em diferentes temas,  tais 
como: Projecto de Redes, Biologia Computacional e Optimização em Desportos.

É Membro Associado da Academia Brasileira de Ciências e Editor-Geral da 
revista International Transactions in Operational Research. Publicou 
mais de 90 artigos em periódicos internacionais, vários trabalhos em 
anais de congressos e 17 artigos em capítulos de livros. Editou ainda 
vários livros. Orientou diversas teses de Doutoramento e  dissertações 
de Mestrado.

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