AGIFORS Annual Symposium 2003
Conference Agenda

Sunday – September 14

14:00 – 16:00

AGIFORS Council Meeting 
(Council Members Only

15:00 – 18:00

Delegate Registration

19:00 – 20:30

Symposium Opening Ceremony
Hotel Sofitel, Paris Porte de Sevres

Welcome Cocktail Party

Monday September 15

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

Conference Overview / Welcome Address

09:00 – 09:20 Reservation and Yield Management
Study Group Review
09:20 – 09:40 Schedule and Strategic Planning
Study Group Review
09:40 – 10:00 Coffee break
10:00 – 10:20

OR Managers
Study Group Review

10:20 – 10:40 Airline Operations
Study Group Review
10:40 – 11:00 Crew Management
Study Group Review
11:00 – 11:20 Cargo
Study Group Review
11:20 – 12:05 Keynote Speech: Presenting to Your Senior Executives: O.R. That Even a V.P. Can Understand
Scott Nason, American Airlines
12:05 – 13:05

Business Lunch in the Hotel

13:05 – 13:40 SimDelta: A Sim. Model to Analyze Airline Ops
Wassim Chaar, Delta Airlines
13:40 – 14:15 Seeding Up Column Generation Via Convex Optimization Tools: An Application to the Aircraft Rotation Problem
Olivier du Merle, Air France
14:15 – 14:50 Decision Support for Hub Reduction
Tim Niznik, American Airlines
14:50 – 15:10 Coffee break
15:10 – 15:45 The Repair-Game: Robust Plans and Disturbation Management in Aircraft Scheduling by the Help of Game Tree Search
Ulf Lorenz et. al., Paderborn University
15:45 – 16:20

A Multi-Criteria Optimization Approach for Robust Aircraft Rotations
Irina Ioachim, Delta Technologies

19.00 – 22:00

Evening on your own

Tuesday – September 16

08:00 – 08:30 Airline Updates

08:30 – 09:15

Keynote: Task Assignment Optimization Model
Barry Smith, Sabre Holdings

09:15 – 09:50 Quantifying Resource Impact on Schedule Profitablity
Tim Jacobs, American Airlines
09:50 – 10:20 Coffee break
10:20 – 10:55

Codeshare Optimizer – Maximizing Codeshare Revenues
Raj Sivakumar, United Airlines

10:55 – 11:30 The cabin crew rostering model at Alitalia
Francesco Sansone, Alitalia Airlines
11:30 – 12:05

Large Scale Crew Rostering
Stefan E Karisch, Carmen Systems AB

12:05 – 13:05

Business Lunch in the Hotel

13:05 – 13:40 Robustness Issues in Pairings Optimisation
David M. Ryan and Matthias Ehrgott, University of Auckland
13:40 – 14:15 Air France OR Group Success Stories and Future Challenges
Jean-Christophe Culioli, Air France
14:15 – 14:50 Managing Innovation at Sabre Labs
Richard Ratliff, Sabre Holdings
14:50 – 15:10 Coffee break
15:10 – 15:45 The Evolution of Airline Yield Management: What YM Capability Does My Airline Need?
Ben Vinod, Navona Inc.
15:45 – 16:30 Keynote Speech: Ethnography and OR
Bill Brunger, Continental Airlines
16:30 – 17:30 Vendor Exhibition
19.00 – 22:00

Evening on your own

Wednesday – September 17

08:00 – 18:00 Networking Activity - Tour of Giverny and Versailles
19.00 – 22:00

Evening on your own

Thursday – September 18

08:00 – 08:30 Airline Updates
08:30 – 09:15 Keynote Speech: How can software and change become more compatible, and how can companies better leverage their optimization and OR experts?
Pierre Haren, CEO, ILOG
09:15 – 09:50 RM overview: challenges and opportunities
Umit Cholak, Sabre Airline Solutions
09:50 – 10:20

Coffee break

10:20 – 10:55 MultiFlight AU Analyzer
Judy Pastor, Continental Airlines
10:55 – 11:30 Revenue Management with Restriction Free Pricing
Shankar Mishra, Sabre Airline Solutions
11:30 – 12:05 Choice-Based Revenue Management: Research Advances and Implementation Prospects
Garrett van Ryzin, Columbia University
12:05 – 13:05

Business Lunch in the Hotel

13:05 – 13:40 Revenue Management Product Design
Kalyan Talluri, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
13:40 – 14:15 Low Cost Carrier a new area of RM
Ruediger Thiel, Lufthansa Systems
14:15 – 14:50 Probabilisation of Demand Forecasting
Daniel Sallier, Paris Airports Authority (ADP)
14:50 – 15:10 Coffee break
15:10 – 15:45 Benefits and Costs of O&D Revenue Management
Rick Zeni, USAirways
15:45 – 16:30 Keynote Speech
Jean-Paul Hamon, CIO, Air France
19.00 – 22:00

Evening Banquet - Moulin Rouge

Friday – September 19

08:30 – 12:00 Agifors Council Meeting

* Agenda is subject to change

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

Welcome | Agenda | Registration | General Information | Hotel Information | Host City