Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the Agifors Council has decided to organize all study group meetings ONLINE in 2021. 

SSP Study Group meeting will be held on Monday May 17, Tuesday May 18, and Wednesday May 19.

We are excited for our community to meet again, after a short break last year! 

We are delighted to introduce our distinguished panel, and excited to have a live discussion around the timely topic of recovery. Our panel will discuss the challenges faced by airlines due to the pandemic, and the initiatives taken and new approaches employed and further needed, along with their thoughts on how our community can help the airline industry navigate to recovery.

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Laurie Garrow - Moderator

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Co-Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Air Mobility

Georgia Institute of Technology

We are looking forward to an enriching meeting with 226 representatives from the following 46 airlines,

30 academic institutions, and 29 solution providers, vendors, industry, government, and other organizations.

We already expect technical presentations from Amadeus/Optym, American Airlines, Lufthansa Group, Lufthansa Systems, Sabre Labs, and others. There is still room for your contribution. Especially this year, we would more than welcome presentations describing the unique challenges the pandemic brought to your company and how you have been addressing them, as well as unique opportunities you identified and plan to capitalize on going forward.

We encourage technical presentations discussing, in depth, OR/ML methodology to solve airline scheduling and planning problems, as well as business use cases describing how OR/ML/Analytics is utilized, without going into the underlying math, to solve a problem and/or improve processes.

Topics of interest include but not limited to

• Recovering from the pandemic
• Demand forecasting
• AI and Machine Learning in airline scheduling and planning
• Market share and profitability forecasting
• Shopping data insights for scheduling and planning
• Codeshare/Alliance/Joint-Business decision making
• Robust scheduling
• Leveraging Big Data and Visualization
• Fleet assignment
• Aircraft/Maintenance routing
• Frequency assignment, timetabling, day-of-week scheduling
• Long term schedule/fleet decision making
• Aircraft configuration optimization
• Network strategies
• Gate planning/optimization
• Schedule publication
• Collaboration between schedule optimization/planning and operations, maintenance operations, revenue management, crew, and airports

The following are requirements for participation in the technical program:

• A 30-45 minute presentation
• Willingness to comply with requests for additional information and clarification on abstract and/or presentation material
• Willingness to tailor a presentation for the AGIFORS SSP audience and to accept directions from the selection committee in doing so
• No live demo’s (screenshots are fine insofar as they illustrate or help visualize concepts or demonstrate results)
• No references to commercial products
• Must register and attend the conference

Please submit your technical presentation proposal using the form here.

If you cannot access the form, or for any inquiry, please contact ssp@agifors.org with the speaker names, organization, title and abstract of your talk, and duration.

Here are requirements on presentation material in detail.

Please inform us of your intent to present by no later than April 27, 2021.

Draft presentation due May 2nd

Final presentation due May 10th