AGIFORS Annual Symposium 2008
Delivering Operations Research Based Innovation

 

Conference Agenda

Sunday - 21 September 2008  
16:00 - 18:00 Delegate Registration
19:00 - 21:00 Keynote Speaker - Montie Brewer
President and CEO of Air Canada

Welcome Reception/Cocktails
Sponsored by Jeppesen
Monday - 22 September 2008
08:00 - 08:30 Delegate Registration
08:30 - 09:00 Symposium Overview/Introductions
Tim Jacobs and Michael Clarke, AGIFORS
09:00 - 09:45 Changes in the Airline Industry and
the Future of Network Planning

Keynote Speaker - Daniel Shurz
Vice-President Network Planning, Air Canada
  Study Group Reviews
09:45 - 10:00 Airline Operations
Michael Clarke, Sabre Holdings
10:00 - 10:15 Cargo Management and Logistics
Raja Kasilingam, Sabre Airline Solutions
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 10:45 Crew Management
Mike Wysocki, Northwest Airlines
10:45 - 11:00 Revenue Management and Distribution
Gina Morello, American Airlines
11:00 - 11:15 Strategic and Schedule Planning
Lori Garrow, Georgia Tech
11:15 - 12:00 Web Services and Operations Research
Alan Walker - Sabre Holdings
12:00 - 13:30 Business luncheon
  Anna Valicek Award Finalists
13:30 - 14:30 Modeling the Choice of an Airline Itinerary
and Fare Product
Emmanuel Carrier - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
14:30 - 15:30 Decreasing Airline Delay Propagation By
Re-Allocating Scheduled Slack

Shervin Ahmad Beygi - University of Michigan
15:30 - 16:00 Afternoon tea break
16:00 - 16:45 CitationShares from the Lab to the Bottom Line
William Hall - CitationShares (Keynote Speaker)
16:45 - 17:30 Virtual Spares
John-Paul Clarke – Georgia Institute of Technology
19:00 - 22:00 Evening on your own
19:00 - 22:00 OR Managers Study Group Meeting
(requires separate delegate registration, includes dinner)
Tuesday - 23 September 2008
  Joint INFORMS Aviation Applications Section/
Sloan Foundation Sessions
08:00 - 08:30 Marketing Very Light Jets in a Turbulent Economy
Clare Comm - University of Massachusetts Lowell
08:30 - 09:15 A Complexity Theory Algorithm for Routing and Scheduling Very Light Jets
Dennis F X Mathaisel - Babson College
09:15 - 10:00 Revenue Management Optimization at Air Canada
Jean-Francois Page - Air Canada
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:15 Rise and Fall of Airline Revenue Management Systems
Peter Belobaba - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:15 - 12:00

Airline Customers Searching and Purchasing Behavior
Laurie A Garrow - Georgia Institute of Technology

12:00 - 13:30 Business luncheon
13:30 - 14:15 An Empirical Investigation of Airline
Flight Schedule Robustness

Vinayak Deshpande - Purdue University
14:15 - 15:00 Modeling the Impact of Eliminating Service to
Regional Airports

Amy Cohn - University of Michigan
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon tea break
15:30 - 16:15 Block Time Planning with Service Levels
Diego Klabjan - Northwestern University
16:15 - 16:30 Optimization Decision Manager
Martin Shell - Ilog (Vendor Presentation)
16:30 - 16:45

Overview on Integrated Operations Control
Stefan Karisch - Jeppesen (Vendor Presentation)

17:45 - 22:30 Dinner Cruise
Sponsored by ExPretio
Wednesday - 24 September 2008
08:00 - 22:00 Day Excursion to Quebec City
Sponsored by AD OPT - A Kronos Division 
Thursday - 25 September 2008  
08:00 - 08:45 Integration of a Passenger Flow Model into the Fleet Assignment Problem
Jonathan Dumas, Francois Soumis - GERAD
08:45 - 09:30

Airline Business Process Modeling
Goran Stojkovic – Jeppesen

09:30 - 10:15 A Heuristic Branch and Price Approach to Repairing Crewmember Schedules
Carl Mitchelson - AD OPT (A Kronos Division)
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 11:30 The Connectedness of the Worlds Airline Network
Roger A Parker - Virtual M1nds
11:30 - 12:15 Are Internet Sales Less Profitable
Bill Brunger - Case Western Reserve University
12:15 - 13:30 Business luncheon
13:30 - 14:15 Restriction Free Pricing and Demand Segmentation
Rick Zeni - JetBlue
14:15 - 15:00 Multi-flight Demand Untruncation: Simulation Results
Richard Ratliff - Sabre Holdings Inc
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon tea break
15:30 - 16:15

Maintenance Reachability Robust Schedule and Route Construction at Southwest Airlines
Alex Heinold - Southwest Airlines

16:15 - 17:00 How American Airlines Operations Research team helps its Maintenance Operation
Mei Zhang - American Airlines
17:00 - 17:15 Vendor Presentation
17:15 - 17:30 Vendor Presentation
19:00 - 22:30 O.R. … And May the Past be Prologue
Keynote Speaker -
Pierre Jeanniot
Director General Emeritus, IATA, past president Air Canada

Gala Dinner Banquet
Sponsored by Fair Isaac
Friday - 26 September 2008  
08:00 - 08:45 Evaluating Forecast Efficacy or How Do I know if This Thing is Working
Edward Kambour - PROS
08:45 - 09:30 Upgrades and Upsells in Revenue Management
Guillermo Gallego (Columbia), Catalina Stefanescu (LSB)
09:30 - 10:15 Yield Management: An Application of Segmented Forecasting
Imen Zrelli -
ISG Tunis
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 11:30

Biometrics as a Measure for Seamless and
Secure Checkin Procedures

Jeffery Oboy - m2p Consulting GmbH

11:30 - 12:15 The Route Less Traveled
Dejan Devic - Aviation Consultant
12:15 - 13:30 Luncheon at Hotel
13:30 - 14:00 Annual Business Meeting
 
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