Improved bounds for the traveling umpire problem: A stronger formulation and a relax-and-fix heuristic
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2013.12.019
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OR in sports; Baseball; Heuristics; Integer programming; Relax-and-fix; Traveling umpire problem;All these keywords.
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