A New Approach for Disruption Management in Airline Operations Control

• Type: Book
• Date: 2014

Authors

António J. M. Castro (Author) FEUP; Ana Paula Rocha (Author) FEUP; Eugénio Oliveira (Author) FEUP

Publisher

Springer

Cham

Indexing

Scopus - 13 Citations

Scientific classification

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

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering > Knowledge engineering

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00A-BXB

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-43373-7

Abstract (EN): Most of the research efforts dealing with airline scheduling have been done on off-line plan optimization. However, nowadays, with the increasingly complex and huge traffic at airports, the real challenge is how to react to unexpected events that may cause plan-disruptions, leading to flight delays. Moreover these disruptive events usually affect at least three different dimensions of the situation: the aircraft assigned to the flight, the crew assignment and, often forgotten, the passengers¿ journey and satisfaction. This book includes answers to this challenge and proposes the use of the Multi-agent System paradigm to rapidly compose a multi-faceted solution to the disruptive event taking into consideration possible preferences of those three key aspects of the problem. Negotiation protocols taking place between agents that are experts in solving the different problem dimensions, combination of different utility functions and, not less important, the inclusion of the human in the automatic decision-making loop make MASDIMA, the system described in this book, well suited for real-life plan-disruption management applications

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 268

ISBN: 978-3-662-43372-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-662-43373-7

Collection: Studies in Computational Intelligence

Edition: 1 ª

Vol.: 562