History of the Anna Valicek Medal

PRIOR WINNERS Congratulations to our Anna Valicek Award Winners! 2011 Silver: Stefan Friedrichs, University of Cologne, Germany, Air Cargo Scheduling 2011 Bronze: Xing Hu, New York University, USA, Revenue Sharing in Airline Alliances 2010 Silver: Ivan Dovica, Charles University, Czech Republic, Robust Tail Assignment 2010 Bronze: Masoud Talebian, Columbia University, USA, Requiring Minimum Sales Volumes to Trigger a Commission Increase under Competition 2010 Honorable Mention: Vikrant Vaze, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, Competitive Airline Scheduling under Airport Demand Management Strategies 2009 Silver: Douglas Fearing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, Equitable and Efficient Coordination of Traffic Flow Management Programs 2009 Bronze: Gizem Keysan, Georgia Tech, USA, Tactical and Operational Planning of Scheduled Maintenance for Per-Seat, On-Demand Air Transportation 2009 Honorable Mention: Juan Chaneton, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Computing Bid-Prices for Revenue Management under Customer Choice 2009 Honorable Mention: Arne Strauss, Lancaster University, UK, Network Revenue Management with Inventory-Sensitive Bid Prices and Customer Choice 2008 Silver: Emmanuel Carrier, MIT, USA, Modeling the Choice of an Airline Itinerary and Fare Product Using Booking and Seat Availability Data 2008 Bronze: Shervin Ahmad Beygi, University of Michigan, USA, Decreasing Airline Delay Propagation By Re-Allocating Scheduled Slack 2008 Honorable Mention: Marcus Lowther, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, En Route Speed Change Optimization for Spacing Continuous Descent Arrivals 2007 Silver: Juan José Miranda Bront, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, A Column Generation Algorithm for Choice-based Network Revenue Management 2007 Bronze: Geert De Maere, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, Multi-objective Approaches for Robust Airline Scheduling 2006 Silver: Hai Jiang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, Dynamic Airline Scheduling: Models, Algorithms and Experiments 2006 Bronze: Ozge Sahin, Columbia University, USA, Inter-temporal Valuations, Product Design and Revenue Management 2005 Silver: Greg Coldren, Northwestern University, USA, Modeling The Competitive Dynamic Among Air-Travel Itineraries With Generalized Extreme Value Models 2005 Bronze: Andreea Popescu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, A New Approach To Solve The Probabilistic Nonlinear Seat Inventory Control Problem 2004 Silver: Rivi Sandhu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, Integrated Airline Planning ADDITIONAL SUBMISSIONS Thanks to the dozens of students from throughout the world who have shared their operations research work with the AGIFORS community! Below is a list of prior submissions, organized by the year in which the working papers were submitted to the Anna Valicek competition. 2011 - Alwin Haensel, VU University Amsterdam, Evaluating Extraordinarily Large Requests in a Revenue Management Network 2011 - Bahadir Zeren, Istanbul Institute of Technology, Multibase Airline Crew Pairing Optimization with Genetic Algorithms using Perturbation Operator 2011 - Branko Bubalom Berlin School of Economics and Law Airport Punctuality, Congestion and Delay: The Scope for Benchmarking 2011 - Farshid Azadian, Wayne State University, Dynamic Routing of Time-Sensitive Air Cargo using Real-Time Information 2011 - Jun Li, The Wharton School, Partnering with Competitors - Effects of Alliances on Airline Entry and Capacity Decisions 2011 - Kristine (Xiaoqing) Xie, Cornell University, Pricing and Market Segmentation Using Opaque Selling Mechanisms 2011 - Lavanya Marla & Bo Vaaben, MIT/Carnegie Mellon, DTU, Integrated Disruption Management and Flight Planning to Trade off Delays and Fuel Burn 2011 - Marcial Lapp, University of Michigan, Modifying Lines-of-Flight in the Planning Process for Improved Maintenance Robustness 2011 - Marco Pistelli, University of Rome, Optimization Models and Algorithms for Air Traffic Control in the Airspace of Busy Airports 2011 - Matias Sevel Rasmussen,Technical University of Denmark, A Subsequence Generation Approach for the Airline Crew Pairing Problem 2011 - Mehrdad Varedi, University of Waterloo, Forecasting Seat Sales in Passenger Airlines: Introducing the Round-trip Model 2011 - Ruben Lobel, MIT, Dynamic Pricing Through Sampling Based Optimization 2011 - Sameer Kulkarni, George Mason University, Static Sectorization Results for Dallas Fort Worth Center Using Dynamic Programming 2011 - Shubham Gupta, MIT, Multistage Air Traffic Flow Management under Capacity Uncertainty: A Robust and Adaptive Optimization Approach 2011 - Shubham Gupta, MIT, A Framework to Span Airport Delay Estimates Using Transient Queuing Models 2011 - So Yeon Chun. Georgia Institute of Technology, Resource Exchange Carrier Alliances 2011 - Tatsuya Kotegawa, Purdue University, Airline Route Network Evolution Tool for Enhanced National Airspace Analysis 2011 - Virot Chiraphadhanakul, MIT Robust Flight Schedules through Slack Re-Allocation 2010 - Alwin Haensel, VU University Amsterdam, Estimating Unconstrained Demand Rate Functions using Customer Choice Sets 2010 - Andrea Ranieri, University of Trieste, Short-term Allocation of Time Windows to Flights through a Distributed Market-based Mechanism 2010 - Christine Dupuis, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Logical Analysis of Data for Estimating Passenger Show Rates in the Airline Industry 2010 - Christopher Weld, College of William & Mary, A Runway Configuration Management (RCM) Model with Marginally Decreasing Transition Capacities 2010 - Christopher Wright, University of Rochester, Decoupling Airline Alliances: A Bid-Price Approach to the Game of Incomplete Information 2010 - David Post, SigmaZen, Variable Opaque Products in the Airline Industry: A Tool to Fill the Gaps and Increase Revenues 2010 - Javier Martin-Campo, University Rey Juan Carlos, Collision Avoidance in the Air Traffic Management: A Mixed Integer Linear Optimization Approach 2010 - J.H. Kwakkel, Delft University of Technology, Assessing the Efficacy of Adaptive Airport Strategic Planning: Results from Computational Experiments 2010 - Jon D. Petersen, Georgia Institute of Technology, An Optimization Approach to Airline Integrated Recovery 2010 - Lavanya Marla, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Robust Optimization: Lessons Learned from Aircraft Routing 2010 - Marc-Alexandre LaRoche, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Dynamic Optimization of Codeshare Flight Selection for an Airline Company 2010 - Mazhar Arikan, Purdue University, Building Reliable Air-Travel Infrastructure Using Stochastic Models of Airline Networks 2010 - Michelle Dunbar, University of New South Wales, Robust Airline Schedule Planning: Minimizing Propagated Delay in an Integrated Routing and Crewing 2010 - Mohammed Saddoune, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Integrated Airline Crew Scheduling: A Bi-dynamic Constraint Aggregation Method 2010 - Mohammed Salem Awad, Felix Airways, Allocate the Right Aircraft Capacity 2010 - Mohammed Salem Awad, Felix Airways, Profit Maximization of Multi-Stops Operating Model 2010 - Navindran Davendralingam, Purdue University, A Dynamic Programming Framework for Aircraft Design and Airline Network Design 2010 - Pablo Olaso, University Rey Juan Carlos, Conflict Avoidance: 0-1 Linear Models for Conflict Detection and Resolution 2010 - Paolo D'Urgolo, Universit`a degli Studi Roma Tre, Optimal Sequencing of Aircrafts Take-off and Landing at a Busy Airport 2010 - Shubham Gupta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, A Proposal for Network Air Traffic Flow Management Incorporating Fairness and Airline Collaboration 2009 - Adrian J. Lee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Impact of Aviation Checkpoint Queues on Security Screening Effectiveness 2009 - Anwar H. Ahmed, Brunel University, London, United Kingdom, Integrating the Fleet Assignment Model with Uncertain Demand 2009 - Diana C. Flórez, Universidad de los Andes, Columbia, A Mathematical Programming Approach to Airline Crew Pairing Optimization 2009 - Evrim Akar, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, Statistical Analysis and Forecasting of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Ground Handling Process Durations 2009 - Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, Universit´e d’Avignon, France, Rescheduling Flights, Aircraft, and Passengers Simultaneously under Disrupted Operations 2008 - Guido Diepen, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, Integration of Gate Assignment and Platform Bus Planning 2008 - Leander Quiring, University of Waterloo, Canada, The Application of Semidefinite Programming to the Aircrew Scheduling Problem 2008 - Maarten Soomer, VU University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Fairness in the Aircraft Landing Problem 2008 - Misuk Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology, Airline Passengers’ Online Search and Purchase Behavior: New Insights from an Interactive Price Response Model 2008 - Oliver Weide, University of Auckland, New Zealand, Solving the Robust and Integrated Aircraft Routing and Crew Pairing Problem in Practice 2008 - Wouter Souffriau, KaHo Sint-Lieven, Belgium, A Mixed Integer Programming Approach to the Aircraft Weight and Balance Problem 2008 - Yu-Ching Lee, University of Illinois, Block Time Estimation and Robust Airline Scheduling 2007 - Brigitte Fuhr, Clausthal University of Technology and Lufthansa Airlines, Robust Flight Scheduling 2007 - Chunhua Gao, Georgia Institute of Technology, Integrated Airline Fleet and Crew Robust Planning 2007 - Lori Houghtalen, Georgia Institute of Technology, Designing Allocation Mechanisms for Carrier Alliances 2007 - Ming Hu, Columbia University, Dynamic Pricing of Perishable Assets under Competition 2007 - Nitika Budhiraja, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, Schedule Design and fleet Assignment with Demand-Supply Interactions: an Alternative Approach 2007 - Tristan Meerburg, University of Twente, Noise Load Management at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol 2007 - Yingjie Lan & Huina Gao, University of Maryland, Seat Inventory Control with Limited Demand Information 2006 - Chunhua Gao, Georgia Institute of Technology, Rethinking the Airline Crew Scheduling Process 2006 - Dan Iliescu, Georgia Institute of Technology, Analysis of U.S. Airline Passengers’ Refund and Exchange Behavior across Multiple Airlines 2006 - Nikolaos Papadakos, IC-PARC, Integrated Airline Scheduling: Decomposition and Acceleration Techniques 2006 - Senay Solak, Georgia Institute of Technology, Capacity Planning at Airport Terminals using Delay Time Approximations and Multistage Stochastic Programming 2005 - Frederic Babonneau, University of Geneva, Solving Large Scale Linear Multicommodity Flow Problems with an Active Set Strategy and Proximal-ACCPM 2005 - Nitika Budhiraja, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, A Multi-Objective Model for the Robust Aircraft Routing.