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Publications

Our experts are actively involved in research and promote the development of innovative ideas and concepts with their own specialist publications and scientific presentations at international conferences.

Presentations

  • A Dynamic Reduce and Generate Approach for Airline Crew Scheduling, Ivo Nowak and Vitali Gintner, GERAD International Workshop on Column Generation, Aussois, June 17-20,2008
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  • Aircraft Routing from Planning to Day of Ops, Thomas Schickinger, Lufthansa Mathematik Symposium, Frankfurt, Germany, June 13, 2008
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  • Recent Advances in Airline Crew Scheduling, Ivo Nowak, Lufthansa Mathematik, Symposium, Frankfurt, Germany, June 13, 2008
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  • The potential of tail assignment optimization, Thomas Schickinger, AGIFORS Airline Operations, Amsterdam, May 18-22,2008
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  • A Generic Column-Generation-Based Framework for Airline Planning, Thomas Schickinger, Informs Annual Meeting, Seattle, November 4-7, 2007
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  • On Solving Optimization Problems in Airline Planning and Control, Ivo Nowak, GOR Workshop Global Optimization, Bad Honnef, Germany, October 18-19, 2007
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  • The Crew Scheduling Problem: Solution Methods and their Applicationin the Airline Industry, Andreas Söhlke, Ivo Nowak, EURO XXII, Prague, 9.9.-11.9.2007
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  • Flight Schedule Planning and Combinatorial Optimization, Werner Schwärzler, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, 10.5.2007
  • Optimizing for Insight by Solution Analysis and Partitioning, Thomas Schickinger, Agifors Airline Operations Study Group, Denver, Colorado, USA, 2007
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  • Optimizing Hub Systems with Operational Constraints, Olaf Jeschke, Agifors Scheduling & Strategic Planning Study Group, Cranfield, England, 11.-12.5.2006
  • A Unified Column Generation Approach for Crew Pairing and Rostering, Ivo Nowak, International Symposium of Mathematical Programming (ISMP), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 30.7.-4.8.2006.
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  • Preferential Bidding. The Challenge of measuring Crew Satisfaction, Uwe Schelten, Agifors
    Crew Management Study Group, Honolulu, USA, 9.-13.4.2006
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  • What can OR do for Codesharing?, Richard Schumacher, Agifors Scheduling & Strategic Planning Study Group, Seattle WA, USA, 19.-20.5.2005
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  • An Inexact Bundle Approach for Solving Large Scale Crew Scheduling Problems, Ivo Nowak, Uwe Schelten, Agifors Crew Management Study Group, Mainz, Germany, 15.-18.5.2005
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  • OCC Forecaster, Jürgen Schiewe, Agifors Airline Operations Study Group. Mainz, Germany, 18.-21.5.2005
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  • The Art and Science of Marketshare Models: How to Forecast Passenger Demand in a Competitive Environment, Richard Schumacher, Agifors Scheduling & Strategic Planning Study Group, Macao, 30.5.-1.6.2004
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Publications

  • A Time-Space Network Based Approach for Integrated Vehicle and Crew Scheduling in Public Transport, V. Gintner, I. Steinzen, L. Suhl. In: Proceedings of the 11th Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Transportation, pp. 371-377, Bari, Italy, 2006
  • A Partially Integrated Airline Crew Scheduling Approach with Time-Dependent Crew Capacities and Multiple Home Bases, Y. Guo, T. Mellouli, L. Suhl, M.P. Thiel, Feature Cluster: Heuristic and Stochastic Methods in Optimization, European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR): Vol. 171, Issue 3, pp. 1169-1181, 2006
  • A Column Generation Approach to Airline Crew Scheduling, R. Borndörfer, U. Schelten, T. Schlechte, S. Wieder, ZIB-Report 05-37, Berlin, Germany, 2005
  • Solving Large Multiple-Depot Multiple-Vehicle-Type Bus Scheduling Problems in Practice, V. Gintner, N. Kliewer, L. Suhl. OR Spectrum: 27/04. pp. 507-523. Springer 2005
  • Variable Fixing Heuristic for the Multiple-Depot Integrated Vehicle and Crew Scheduling Problem V. Gintner, I. Steinzen, L. Suhl. In: Jaszkiewicz A., Kaczmarek M., Zak J., Kubiak M., Publishing House of Poznan University of Technology. In: Proceedings of 10th EWGT Meeting, pp: 547-552, Ort: Poznan, Poland, 2005
  • Solving the Airline Crew Recovery Problem by a Genetic Algorithm with Local Improvement, Y. Guo, L. Suhl, M. P. Thiel, Operational Research: An International Journal (ORIJ): Vol. 5, No. 2, 2005
  • Parallelism for Perturbation Management and Robust Plans, J. Ehrhoff, S. Grothklags, U. Lorenz. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Euro-Par Conference, Springer LNCS 3648, pp. 1265-1274, Lisbon, Portugal, 2005
  • A Decision Support System for Airline Management: Crew Scheduling and Rescheduling, Y. Guo, L. Suhl, M. P. Thiel. In: Supply Chain Management und Logistik: Optimierung, Simulation, Decision Support, pp. 359-378, Heidelberg, Germany, 2005
  • Relaxation and Decompostion Methods for Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming, I. Nowak, Book published by Birkhäuser Basel, International series of numerical mathematics, Vol. 152, 2005
  • A Decision Support Framework for the Airline Crew Schedule Disruption Management with Strategy Mapping, Y. Guo, In: Fleuren, H., den Hertog, D., Kort, P. (Eds.) Operations Research Proceedings, Springer, Tilburg, Netherlands, 2004
  • Fleet Assignment with Connection Dependent Ground Times, S. Grothklags, In: Proceedings of the 11th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2003), Springer LNCS 2832, pp. 667-678, Budapest, Hungary, 2003
  • Systems Integration for Revenue-creating Control Processes, K. Weber, J. Sun, Z. Sun, G. Kliewer, S. Grothklags, N. Jung, In "Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management", Vol. 2(2), pp. 120-137, 2003
  • Solving the Weekly Fleet Assignment Problem for Large Airlines, S. Götz, S. Grothklags, G. Kliewer, S. Tschöke. In: Proceedings of the Third Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 1999), pp. 241-246, Angra dos Reis, Brasil, 1999

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