AGIFORS 50th Annual Symposium
Coming Full Circle

 

Conference Agenda

Monday - 20 September 2010
19:00 - 21:00 Welcome Reception/Cocktails
Sponsored by FICO
Tuesday - 21 September 2010
08:00 - 08:30 Delegate Registration

08:30 - 09:00 Symposium Overview and Introductions
Tim Jacobs - AGIFORS

09:00 - 09:30 AGIFORS Chronology and History
Laurie Garrow - Georgia Tech

09:30 - 10:15

Air Travel Market Simulator in Amadeus
Francois Laburthe - Amadeus

10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 11:15

Multi-resource Revenue Management with Upgrades

Mark Fergusun - Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech)

11:15 - 12:00 An Optimization Approach to Airline Integrated Recovery
Jon Petersen - Georgia Institute of Technology

12:00 - 13:15 Business luncheon
Sponsored by Jeppesen

  Anna Valicek Award Finalists
13:15 - 14:15 Requiring Minimum Sale Volumes to Trigger a Commission Increase under Competition
Masoud Talebian - Columbia University

14:15 - 15:15 Robust Tail Assignment
Ivan Dovica - Zuse-Institute Berlin

15:15 - 15:30 Afternoon tea break
15:30 - 16:15

Maintenance Management at PGA Portugália Airlines
Miguel Vaz Pinto - PGA Portugália Airlines

16:15 - 17:00

Models, Mindsets and the Meaning of Life
David Post - SigmaZen

17:00 - 18:00 Vendor Presentations

19:00 - 22:00 Evening Social and Dinner
Sponsored by Sabre Airline Solutions
Wednesday - 22 September 2010
08:30 - 09:15

Airline Service Network Design under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
Cornelia Schoen - Leibniz University Hannover

09:15 - 10:00

Air Cargo Schedule Planning
Ulrich Derigs and Stefan Friederichs - University of Cologne

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee break

10:15 - 11:00

Measuring Schedule Robustness using Stochastic Models of Delay Propagation
Vinayak Deshpande - Purdue University

11:00 - 11:45 Economic Trends and Their Likely Effect on the Airline Industry
Jeffery Oboy - m2p

11:45 - 13:00 Alumni Reception and Lunch/Delegate Lunch
Sponsored by Sigma Zen

13:00 - 18:00 Networking Tour at Chateau del Berne
Sponsored by SITA

18:00 - 22:00 Dinner at Chateau del Berne
Sponsored by IBM
Thursday - 23 September 2010
08:30 - 09:15 Enhancing airline customer data by identifying passenger relationships
Michael Farrugia - UCD, Dublin

09:00 - 10:00 Decomposition Techniques in Market Sensitive Revenue Optimization
Thomas Winter and Arne Strauss - Lufthansa Systems

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

Cluster based Fleet Assignment
Mourad Boudia and Semi Gabteni - Amadeus

11:00 - 11:45

Multi-choice threshold models: Destination choice for opaque products.

Laurie Garrow -  Georgia Institute of Technology

11:45 - 13:00 Business luncheon
Sponsored by Gurobi Software

13:00 - 13:45

How Airlines Helped Optimization Software Climb to New Heights
Keynote Presentation by Dr. Robert Bixby, Gurobi Software

13:45 - 14:30 Sell-up Estimation and Criminality
Julien Peyrieux - Air France KLM

14:30 - 15:15 Model formulation and interface design choices for aircraft routing
Susanne Heipcke - FICO

15:15 - 15:30 Afternoon tea break

15:30 - 16:15

A New Formulation for Choice Based RM under a General Attraction Model
Richard Ratliff - Sabre Holdings

16:15 - 17:00

How robust are robust schedules in reality
Niklaus Eggenberg - APM Technologies

17:00 - 17:30 Vendor Presentations

18:30 - 23:30 Gala Dinner Banquet
Keynote Address by Jean-Paul Hamon, EVP and CIO, Amadeus

Sponsored by Amadeus
Friday - 24 September 2010
08:30 - 09:15 Keynote Address
Edouard Odier, Executive Vice President
Information Systems - Air France KLM


09:15 - 10:00 Research and Development of Next Generation RM system at United Airlines
Wen Zhao - United Airlines

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

SIGLA An Integrated System for Airline Management
Eduardo Soares - LATOP

11:00 - 11:45

How OR Departments Can Help the IS Renovation
Alexandre Boissy - Air France KLM

11:45 - 13:00 Business luncheon

13:00 - 13:45 Evaluating Alerting Mechanism in Crew Tracking System
Xianchang Wang - Chengdu Soft-intelligent Technology

13:45 - 14:30 Speed Reduction for the Management of ATFM Delays
Luis Delgado

14:30 - 15:15 Seasonal Manpower Planning at a Low Cost Airline
Alexandre Feray - Open Airlines

15:15 - 15:30 Afternoon tea break

15:30 - 16:00 Presentation Awards and Closing Comments

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