| Article ID: | iaor19941505 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 44 |
| Issue: | 11 |
| Start Page Number: | 1067 |
| End Page Number: | 1072 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1993 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Willis R.J., Armstrong J. |
| Keywords: | scheduling, spreadsheets |
This paper describes the scheduling of the matches for the 1992 World Cup of Cricket using a heuristic method programmed in Lotus 1-2-3. The many constraints of different types precluded an analytical approach and the authors describe their method and solution.