This is the agenda for the technical presentations and is subjected to change as required. |
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Monday |
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07:15 |
Vendor Setup |
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09:15 |
Coffee |
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09:30 |
Welcome |
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10:00 |
Keynote address |
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Alison Short, Vice-President Revenue Planning,
Optimization & Analytics - Air Canada |
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Innovation at Air Canada: Skate where the puck
is going to be |
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11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:30 |
Ken Wang Scholars Introduction |
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11:45 |
Crew Management Best Presentation |
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Hector Barrocal (Copa Air) |
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12:15 |
SSP Best Presentation |
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Hossein Dashti, Ron Chu (American Airlines) |
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12:45 |
Lunch Sponsored by Cavan
Solutions |
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14:00 |
Sponsor - Cavan
Solutions |
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14:15 |
Sponsor - NavBlue |
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14:30 |
Onboard Wi-Fi Predictive Maintenance: Identifying
Aircraft Wi-Fi Antenna Failure Using Big Data |
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Ehsan Rahimi - United Airlines |
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15:00 |
Introducing ATL@GT and AirSim,
a Competitive Revenue Management Simulation Tool |
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Laurie Garrow (Georgia Tech) |
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15:30 |
Air Cargo Ground Operations Optimization: A
Service Vehicles Coordination Problem |
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Jenny Tonka (U Liege) |
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16:00 |
Coffee Break |
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16:30 |
Maintenance Cost Optimization for Engines,
Airframe and Landing Gears |
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Keith Dugas (Air Canada) |
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17:00 |
Optimizing Conjointly Multiple Airlines
Operations - a Case Study on the Lufthansa Group |
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Marie Carre (Swiss) |
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17:30 |
Combined Language Models with Optimization for
Conversational Trip Planning |
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Mourad Boudia (Amadeus) |
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18:00 |
Close |
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Tuesday |
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08:00 |
Coffee |
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08:30 |
Welcome |
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08:45 |
Anna Valicek Award
Final |
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Thomas Hagspihl,
- Apron layout Planning - optimal positioning of aircraft stands |
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Jan-Rasmus Künnen,
- The value of flexible flight-to-route assignments in pre-tactical air
traffic management |
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11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:30 |
Combined Revenue Management and Fleet
Assignment optimization |
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Fedor Nitikin, Bertalan Juhasz (Finnair) |
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12:00 |
Exploration vs Exploitation: The Case for
using Aircraft as Weather Sensors |
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Lavanya Marla (UIUC) |
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12:30 |
Lunch |
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13:45 |
Revenue Optimization for Airline Branded Fares |
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Adam Bockelie et al (Air Canada) |
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14:15 |
Willingness-to-pay Estimation and Pricing
Optimization for Airline Seat Assignment |
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Yury Sambale (Air Canada) |
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14:45 |
Improved Decision Making for Disruptive
Weather Events using Ensemble Forecasts |
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John Williams (IBM), Mike Robinson (MITRE),
Tim Niznik (AA) |
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15:15 |
Coffee Break |
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15:45 |
Using an Autoencoder to Develop Health
Indicators and RUL Prognostics for Aircraft Systems with Few Failure
Instances and Varying Flight Conditions |
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Ingeborg de Pater (TU Delft) |
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16:15 |
Learning from the Crowd: using Generative AI
to Predict Willingness to Pay of Sparse Passenger Streams |
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Giacomo Bonciolini
(Swiss) |
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16:45 |
Application of Large Language Models for
Reliability Analysis |
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Soheil Parsa (Boeing) |
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17:15 |
Close |
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Wednesday |
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08:00 |
Coffee |
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08:30 |
Welcome |
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08:45 |
Reserve Price Optimization for Airlines -
Ancillary Products |
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Maelle Zimmermann (Ivado
Labs) |
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09:15 |
Wind Optimal Routing with Airspace Constraint
Avoidance |
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Greg Feldman (Cavan Solutions) |
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09:45 |
Amazon Air's Aircraft Recovery Model |
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Chyi-Fu Hong, Tim Jacobs, Stefan Karisch (Amazon) |
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10:15 |
Application of quantum computing in the field
of airline Revenue Management |
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Alexander Papen (Amadeus) |
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10:45 |
Grab Lunch to-go |
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11:00 |
Board Buses for Networking Event |
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Thursday |
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08:00 |
Coffee |
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08:30 |
Welcome |
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08:45 |
Dynamic Ancillary Pricing: Leveraging
Contextual Bandits with Limited Historical Data |
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Bogusz Stefańczyk (Flyr) |
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09:15 |
Distributionally Robust Airport Ground Holding
Problem under Wasserstein Ambiguity Sets |
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Haochen Wu (Univ of Michigan) |
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09:45 |
Using Machine Learning to Predict the
On-Time-Performance of a Flight Schedule |
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Pascale Batchoun
(Air Canada) |
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10:15 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00 |
Integrated Predictive Maintenance Tool for
Business Aircraft through Continuous Monitoring in Practice |
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Ashwin Rai (Ivado
Labs) |
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11:30 |
Ground Time Awareness in Fleet Assignment
Models |
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Nitin Srinath, Ahmed Marzouk (United Airlines) |
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12:00 |
An Engine Shop-visit Optimization Model for
Cost Reduction and Efficiency Improvement |
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Alejandro Vicente (Vueling) |
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12:30 |
Lunch |
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12:45 |
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13:00 |
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13:15 |
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13:30 |
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13:45 |
Predictive AI/ML Analysis of Maintenance
Operations Effectiveness |
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Vitali Volovoi (Mitek analytics) |
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14:15 |
Application of Alternative Economic Theories
in the Airline Industry |
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John Lancaster (Analytic Pricing) |
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14:45 |
Business Meeting |
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15:00 |
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15:15 |
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15:30 |
Close |