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Author Castro, António J. M., author

Title A new approach for disruption management in airline operations control / António J.M. Castro, Ana Paula Rocha, Eugénio Oliveira
Published Heidelberg : Springer, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 244 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Studies in Computational Intelligence, 1860-949X ; volume 562
Studies in computational intelligence ; v. 562. 1860-949X
Contents Background Information -- A New Approach for Disruption Management -- Conclusions -- Appendixes
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 30, 2014)
Subject Multiagent systems.
Multiagent systems
Form Electronic book
Author Rocha, Ana Paula, author
Oliveira, Eugénio, author
ISBN 9783662433737
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