The Atlantic Coast Conference Schedules
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'97 Basketball Season with Amzi!
The 1997 Atlantic Coast Conference basketball season schedule was created
using Amzi! Prolog. This is the first time the ACC has used rule-based technology.
They turned to it because they couldn't get a schedule anywhere else that
met their constraints for television, balance and fairness.
Fred Barakat, Assistant Commissioner of the ACC said, "Amzi! is the only
organization that was able to give us a complete schedule that met all
our requirements and scheduling constraints."
The ACC has some extremely demanding constraints on their regular season
playing schedule. In addition to the normal pattern of having each team
play every other team twice, once home and once away, there are additional
constraints based on TV coverage, teams which must play on certain days,
and a desire by the highly competitive coaches to have a schedule that
is fair for all teams.
The fairness constraints are the most difficult to enforce, as they require
equal home and away games during each half season, not more than two home
or away games in a row, and an equal number of home games on weekends
as during the mid-week.
The problem has become too complex for hand scheduling, and was even
dubbed impossible by top sports scheduling professionals who use linear
programming techniques.
This year the ACC tried Amzi! Prolog and the result was a program that
generated a schedule that met all of their constraints.
A simplified version of this program that generates round-robin sports
schedules is available for downloading from our web site. It is a full,
working application that can be used for scheduling your sporting events.
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