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Computational Intelligence in Sports

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Modern society treat sport as very important part of people life. Nowadays, it has become social institution with own norms, rules, and structures. In line with this, sport beside athletes, coaches, referees and owners cannot survive without spectators/fans that present the material source for normal operation of clubs. Modern broadcast companies with preemption rights for transmission competitions play also the important role in popularization of sports on the one hand and in filling the club’s budget on the other hand. Sport is far to be amateur activity due to being involved in all areas of human society.

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

    Iztok Fister & Iztok Fister Jr.

  2. Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

    Dušan Fister

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Fister, I., Fister Jr., I., Fister, D. (2019). Introduction. In: Computational Intelligence in Sports. Adaptation, Learning, and Optimization, vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03490-0_1

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