Project Title: Web Service and Scheduling Methods for Badminton Tournament Scheduling  
Student: Fang-Song YAN 
Course: BSc in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence 

Abstract: 
This project aims to develop a badminton tournament system with a set of specific scheduling 
methods to facilitate the automated creating of schedules, manage and update the data of the 
matches. Besides, considering the usage scenario in real life, the badminton tournament system 
would implement as a web-service based project. Also, due to the scheduling problems are 
complex and changeable, the implementation scheduling methods within the system would base 
on the theory of hyper-heuristic algorithm. Moreover, I had built an individual scheduling test 
environment within the project, aiming to simplify and optimize the process of testing and 
evaluating the scheduling methods.  
 
In order to improve the degree of completion of the badminton tournament system, I had 
researched and summarized the various existing badminton scheduling system to complete 
my system requirement and system design further. 
 
In consideration of badminton tournament scheduling is a greenfield of sports scheduling with 
specific tournament rules and complex scheduling scenario. This dissertation would contain a 
detailed description of the badminton tournament, including tournament rules, scheduling scenarios 
and scheduling problems. 
 
Since the project implementation has to include web-service and hyper-heuristic algorithms, 
the literature review is mainly focusing on researching various heuristic methods in order to 
design and implement the specific hyper-heuristic scheduling method for the badminton 
tournament. Besides, this dissertation would introduce the relevant web-service technique in 
the design and implementation section to support the reader to understand why and how to 
implement the badminton tournament system using web-service.