AGIFORS Annual Symposium 2009
Delivering Operations Research Based Innovation

 

Conference Agenda

Sunday - 27 September 2009
19:00 - 21:00 Welcome Reception/Cocktails
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Monday - 28 September 2009
08:00 - 09:00 Delegate Registration
09:00 - 10:00 Symposium Overview/Introductions
Tim Jacobs, AGIFORS
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
  Study Group Reviews
10:30 - 10:45 Airline Operations
 
10:45 - 11:00 Crew Management
 
11:00 - 11:15 Cargo Management and Logistics
 
11:15 - 11:30 Revenue Management and Distribution
 
11:30 - 11:45 Strategic and Schedule Planning
 
11:45 - 12:00 50th Annual Symposium Preview
 
12:00 - 13:30 Business luncheon
  Anna Valicek Award Finalists
13:30 - 14:30 Scheduled Maintenance Planning for Per Seat On Demand Air Transportation
Gizem Keysan – Georgia Institute of Technology
14:30 - 15:30 Equitable and Efficient Coordination of Traffic Flow Management Programs
Douglas Fearing – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
15:30 - 16:00 Afternoon tea break
16:00 - 16:45 The Benefits of Integrating a Crew Perspective into Schedule Design
Jim Paton – Invenzyme, Inc
17:30 - 22:00 OR Managers Study Group Meeting
(requires separate delegate registration, includes dinner)
19:00 - 22:00 Evening on your own
Tuesday - 29 September 2009
  Joint INFORMS Aviation Applications Section/
Sloan Foundation Sessions
09:00 - 10:00

RM models and their Estimation
Kalyan Talluri Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:15

Improving schedule profitability using flight retiming
Sergey Shebalov Sabre Holdings

11:15 - 12:00 Baggage Capacity and Demand Management Becomes even more Sophisticated
Desmond Di Wang Northwestern University
12:00 - 13:30 Business luncheon
13:30 - 14:15

Airline Seat Availability and Indirect Channels

Michael Czyz Sabre Inc
14:15 - 15:00 Integrating Fatigue Risk Management in the Crew Planning Process
Stefan E Karisch Jeppesen
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon tea break
15:30 - 16:15

Sandbox Testing a New Revenue Management Concept

Kalyan Talluri - ICREA & Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
16:15 - 17:00

IBM ILOG CPLEX 12 Technology Update

Ioannis Gamvros - IBM Ilog
17:45 - 22:30 Evening Social
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Wednesday - 30 September 2009
08:00 - 22:00 Day Excursion
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Thursday - 01 October 2009
09:00 - 10:00 Airline Customers Online Search and Purchase for Discounted Fare Products
Misuk Lee - Georgia Tech
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:15

The Ergonomics of Corporate Decision Making
Stefan E Karisch
- Jeppesen

11:15 - 12:00 A new methodology for solving the no purchase problem in choice based RM
Laurie Garrow
- Georgia Tech
12:00 - 13:30 Business luncheon
13:30 - 14:15

A Probabilistic Approach to Quantifying Network Market Performance and Risk

Darrell Wong - American Airlines
14:15 - 15:00

Estimating OD Demand with New Solutions to an Old Problem
Roger A Parker - Virtual M1nds

15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon tea break
15:30 - 16:15 Profit Maximization of Multi Stops Operating Model
Mohammed Salem - Felix Airways
16:15 - 17:00 Understanding the Relationships between Price, RM Controls and Scheduled Capacity
Tim Jacobs - American Airlines
18:30 - 22:30 Gala Dinner Banquet
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Friday - 02 October 2009
08:30 - 09:15 Synchronized Aircraft and Crew Rotations
Tore Jenner - SITA
09:15 - 10:00

Integrated Digital Marketing And Revenue Management
Kevin Geraghty - Revenue Research Inc.

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:15

A Paradigm for Scheduled Flight Services
Jon S Kyle, S8 Cargo Inc.

11:15 - 12:00

Next Generation PSS Systems Development: Ideas and Direction
Umit Cholak, SITA

12:00 - 13:30 Business luncheon
13:30 - 14:30 Annual Business Meeting
 
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