Ranking sports teams: A customizable quadratic assignment approach

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Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 497-510

  Cassady, C Richard ^a   Maillart, Lisa M ^b   Salman, Sinan ^a  

^a University of Arkansas   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Programming; Quadratic; Recreation and sports

Indexed keywords

EID: 29444454013     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: 1526551X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.1050.0171     Document Type: Article

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