Operational Problems Recovery in Airlines – A Specialized Methodologies Approach

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2011

Authors

Bruno Aguiar (Author) FEUP; José Torres (Author) FEUP; António J. M. Castro (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: EPIA 2011

Pages: 83-97

15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Lisboa, 10 a 13 de outubro de 2011

Indexing

ISI Proceedings

Scopus

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Technology > Knowledge technology > Agent technology

Other information

Abstract (EN): Disruption management is one of the most important scheduling problems in the airline industry because of the elevated costs associated, however this is relatively new research area comparing for example with fleet and tail assignment. The major goal to solve this kind of problem is to achieve a feasible solution for the airline company minimizing the several costs involved and within time constraints. An approach to solve operational problems causing disruptions is presented using different specialized methodologies for the problems with aircrafts and crewmembers including flight graph based with meta-heuristic optimization algorithms. These approaches were built to fit on a multi-agent system with specialist agents solving disruptions. A comparative analysis of the algorithms is also presented. Using a complete month real dataset we demonstrate an example how the system handled disruption events. The resulting application is able to solve disruption events optimizing costs and respecting operational constraints.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific