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Sunday - 21 September 2008 |
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| 16:00
- 18:00 |
Delegate
Registration |
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19:00 - 21:00 |
Keynote Speaker - Montie Brewer
President and CEO of Air Canada
Welcome Reception/Cocktails
Sponsored by Jeppesen |
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Monday - 22 September 2008 |
| 08:00
- 08:30 |
Delegate
Registration |
| 08:30
- 09:00 |
Symposium Overview/Introductions
Tim Jacobs and Michael Clarke, AGIFORS |
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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 |
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Study Group
Reviews |
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09:45 - 10:00 |
Airline Operations
Michael Clarke, Sabre Holdings |
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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 |
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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) |
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16:45
- 17:30 |
Virtual Spares
John-Paul Clarke – Georgia Institute of Technology |
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19:00 - 22:00 |
Evening on
your own |
| 19:00
- 22:00 |
OR
Managers Study Group Meeting
(requires separate delegate registration, includes dinner) |
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Tuesday - 23 September 2008 |
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Joint INFORMS
Aviation Applications Section/
Sloan Foundation Sessions
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| 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 |
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16:15
- 16:30 |
Optimization Decision Manager
Martin Shell - Ilog (Vendor Presentation) |
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16:30 - 16:45 |
Overview on Integrated Operations
Control
Stefan Karisch - Jeppesen (Vendor Presentation)
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|
17:45 - 22:30 |
Dinner Cruise
Sponsored by
ExPretio |
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Wednesday - 24 September 2008 |
| 08:00
- 22:00 |
Day
Excursion to Quebec City
Sponsored by AD OPT - A Kronos Division |
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Thursday - 25 September 2008 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |