TY - JOUR
T1 - A polyhedral study for the cubic formulation of the unconstrained traveling tournament problem
AU - Siemann, Marije R.
AU - Walter, Matthias
PY - 2022/11
Y1 - 2022/11
N2 - We consider the unconstrained traveling tournament problem, a sports timetabling problem that minimizes traveling of teams. Since its introduction about 20 years ago, most research was devoted to modeling and reformulation approaches. In this paper we carry out a polyhedral study for the cubic integer programming formulation by establishing the dimension of the integer hull as well as of faces induced by model inequalities. Moreover, we introduce a new class of inequalities and show that they are facet-defining. Finally, we evaluate the impact of these inequalities on the linear programming bounds.
AB - We consider the unconstrained traveling tournament problem, a sports timetabling problem that minimizes traveling of teams. Since its introduction about 20 years ago, most research was devoted to modeling and reformulation approaches. In this paper we carry out a polyhedral study for the cubic integer programming formulation by establishing the dimension of the integer hull as well as of faces induced by model inequalities. Moreover, we introduce a new class of inequalities and show that they are facet-defining. Finally, we evaluate the impact of these inequalities on the linear programming bounds.
U2 - 10.1016/j.disopt.2022.100741
DO - 10.1016/j.disopt.2022.100741
M3 - Article
SN - 1572-5286
VL - 46
JO - Discrete optimization
JF - Discrete optimization
M1 - 100741
ER -