We would like to invite you to the 2010 AGIFORS Scheduling & Strategic Planning Conference on June 24th and 25th.  This yearÕs meeting, hosted by the Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne, will be held at the Starling Hotel, located just across the street from the brand new Rolex Learning Center at EPFL in the lovely city of Lausanne, right on spectacular Lake Geneva.   EPFL has a very active program in airline industry technology, presentations of key elements of which will be part of the Study Group, and our banquet dinner will be served at the Rolex Learning Center

The conference welcomes all qualified papers on scheduling and strategic planning concepts and methodology.  Topics include, but are not limited to,

á                      Robust scheduling

á                      Integration of schedule planning with crew scheduling, revenue management, maintenance, operations

á                      Schedule generation and analysis

á                      Fleet planning and fleet assignment modeling

á                      Alliance and code share analysis

á                      Customer modeling and demand forecasting

Presentations have already been scheduled which discuss a global airline agent-based market simulation, methods of maximization of codeshare revenue, and heuristics for gate assignment optimization.

There will be an award for best presentation/paper.  The author will be invited to the annual AGIFORS symposium (Fall 2010 in Nice); the symposium fee will be waived.

If you are interested in presenting at the study group meeting, please submit your abstract to Roger  Parker.

The cost of the conference is $400 (USD).  Registrations received after June 14th are $450 (USD).  This includes all conference materials, refreshments, breakfast and lunch on June 24 and and June 25th and the conference dinner on June 24th. 

Please see Agenda for the latest schedule, and register for the conference using the on-line registration. 

Finally, contact Roger Parker  or Tim Jacobs for any additional information, and/or clarification on the AGIFORS Scheduling and Strategic Planning 2010 study group meeting.

Best regards from the conference organizers,

Tim Jacobs and Roger Parker