AGIFORS Annual Symposium 2004
Conference Agenda*

* Agenda is subject to change

Sunday – September 05

14:00 – 16:00

AGIFORS Council Meeting 
(Council Members Only

16:00 – 18:00

Delegate Registration

19:00 – 20:30

Symposium Opening Ceremony
Raffles The Plaza - Singapore
Welcome Cocktail Party

Monday – September 06

08:00 – 08:30 Delegate Registration
08:30 – 09:00

Conference Overview / Welcome Address

09:00 – 09:20 Airline Operations Study Group Review
Michael Clarke
09:20 – 09:40 Crew Managment Study Group Review
Michael Wysocki
09:40 – 10:00 Revenue Management Study Group Review
Tim Jacobs
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 11:15

Competitive Fare Shopping for Yield Management
Richard Ratliff
Sabre Holdings

11:15 – 12:00

Distribution of OD Revenue Management Controls
Rick Zeni
US Airways

12:00 – 13:30

Business Lunch in the Hotel

13:30 – 14:30

Air Cargo Overbooking Using a Discrete Show-up Rate Distribution  (*Anna Valicek Runner-up)
Andreea Popescu, Ellis Johnson, Pinar Keskinocak
Georgia Institute of Technology

14:30 – 14:45

Carmen Systems
Vendor Presentation

14:45 – 15:00

Sabre Airline Solutions
Vendor Presentation

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:15

Airport Capacity Forecast in a CDM Approach
Bart van Asten, Sander Niemeijer
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

16:15 – 17:00

Depeaking Frankfurt: An Airline View
Michael Mederer, Michael Frank
Deutsche Lufthansa AG

19.00 – 22:00

Evening on your own

Tuesday – September 07

08:30 – 09:15 Advantages of Real-Time Revenue Management
Timothy L Jacobs, R. Scott Chandler, Shau-Shiang Ja
American Airlines
09:15 – 10:00 Optimizing Code Share Revenues
Anand Srinivasan
Sabre Airline Solutions
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 11:15

Robust Fleet Assignment
Barry C. Smith, Ellis L. Johnson
Sabre Holdings

11:15 – 12:00 The Case for Robust Schedules
Prof. John-Paul Clarke
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12:00 – 13:30

Business Lunch in the Hotel

13:30 – 14:15

Monitoring and Controlling Key Performance Indicators
Stefan Karisch
Carmen Systems AB

14:15 – 15:00

SimDelta
Milind Sohoni, Wassim Chaar, Glen Bailey
Delta Technologies Inc.

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:15

Crew Pairings Recovery at Air France
Brice Deregnaucourt
Air France

16:15 – 17:00

SkyBook the Less Paper Cockpit Solution
Michael Goehde, Mathias Kern
Lufthansa Systems

19.00 – 22:00

Evening Social Event (outside hotel)

Wednesday – September 08

09.00 – 15:00

City Tour/Exploration (lunch included)

19.00 – 22:00

Evening on your own

Thursday – September 09

08:30 – 09:15

SIMAIR Simulation for Airline Operations
Loo Hay Lee, Ellis Johnson, Huei Chuen Huang
National University of Singapore / Georgia Tech

09:15 – 10:00 The Aircraft Maintenance Recovery Problem
Julian Pachon, Mike Arguello, Ben Thengvall
Navitaire Inc.
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 11:15

State of the Art No Show and Standby Models
Laurie A Garrow, Frank S Koppelman
Georgia Institute of Technology

11:15 – 12:00

Demand Functions and Pricing Models
Gongyun ZHAO, Wanmei SOON, Jieping ZHANG
National University of Singapore

12:00 – 13:15

Business Lunch in the Hotel

13:15 – 14:15

Integrated Airline Planning  (*Anna Valicek Medal Winner)
Rivi Sandhu, Diego Klabjan
United Airlines, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

14:15 – 15:00

Evaluating Schedules with the Network Value Index
Roger A Parker
Boeing Commercial Airplanes

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:15

Bridging Business and Technology
Lee Farnum, Ben Amaba
IBM Software Group

16:15 – 17:00

Optimizing Airline Supply Chains
Sanjay Naik, Martin Tomlinson, Ajit Ranade
Emirates Group

19.00 – 22:00

Evening Banquet with Keynote Speaker

Friday – September 10

08:30 – 09:15

Recurrent Training Scheduling
Ellis Johnson, Milind Sohoni
Georgia Institute of Technology

09:15 – 10:00 Task Based Optimal Roster Generation
Anand Srinivasan
Sabre Airline Solutions
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 11:15

Investigation of Value at Risk in Airline Pricing
Jieping Zhang, Zichao Li
National University of Singapore

11:15 – 12:00

A Bi-level Programming Model of Price Competition
SUILING LI
National Penghu Institute of Technology

12:00 – 13:00

Business Lunch in the Hotel

14:00 – 16:00 AGIFORS Council Meeting
(Council Members Only

* Agenda is subject to change

** A selection of presentations covering airline operations, crew scheduling, schedule planning, revenue management, and airline strategy.

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