Software support for optimal league schedules

Purpose and goal

The project aimed at developing powerful, efficient and intuitive software solutions for producing optimal team sports schedules. The project has combined basic research in optimization theory to improve the performance of our scheduling algorithms, advanced software technology to build a platform for compute-intensive cloud computing, and innovative interaction design in collaboration with end users to simplify our optimization methodology and represent it in an intuitive way, without sacrificing performance.

Expected results and effects

The project has enabled our company to significantly improve our optimization algorithms and make them available both on individual computers in the ´cloud´. This advanced optimization technology has now been packaged in easy to use desktop applications and Web services, and has been successfully evaluated by both existing and new customers.

Planned approach and implementation

The project is based on cutting-edge research performed at KTH, and successfully applied in several Swedish top series in multiple sports. In this project, our own experts in optimization and software technology has cooperated with external experts in interaction design and cloud computing to realize powerful and easy-to-use desktop products and web services. The development was done in close cooperation with end users, both previously existing customers and new ones. This applies to both the initial specifications, and many details of the interaction design and methodology.