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An Optimized Route For Q100'S Bert And Kristin To Visit All Jersey Mike's Subs In Atlanta For Charity

Symposium of Student Scholars

The Bert Show is a popular morning show on Atlanta’s Q100 radio station. They host a non-profit organization that provides a “magical, all-expenses-paid, five-day journey to Walt Disney World for children with chronic and terminal illnesses and their families” called “Bert’s Big Adventure.” On March 28^th, 2018, thirty-seven locations of Jersey Mike’s are participating in the their Jersey Mike’s Day of Giving to support Bert’s Big Adventure. The goal is to have two popular radio show hosts visit each of these locations for some photos and presence to draw in more customers! But how do we get two …

Improved Regional Sports Scheduling Using Sas Optgraph

Symposium of Student Scholars

My project improves upon the tmanual cluster method of state interleague scheduling used by the Georgia State Soccer Association by use of an automated multi-round linear assignment algorithm based on SAS Optgraph.

Currently, interleague schedules are formed by manually grouping teams according to placement on a map. Typically, ten teams are assigned to a group and each team plays all of the others once per season (nine games). This approach has two flaws: 1) distance on a map does not always correlate with travel time, and 2) assigning teams to clusters precludes teams from playing teams from other groups. The …