Web services composition has been gaining momentum over the last years as a means of leveraging the capabilities of simple operations to offer value-added services. Complex services such as airline booking systems can be designed as the aggregation of Web services offered by different organizations. As for all cross-organizational collaborative systems, the execution of composite services requi...

Air turbulence is a serious problem that affects airline operations. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is developing an airborne Doppler LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) for on-board turbulence detection. Flight experiments demonstrated that a highaltitude prototype can measure wind speeds at the more than 9 km range at altitude of 12 km. This paper describes the development of t...

As detailed below, we respect the work of Dr. Makarieva and co-authors (Makarieva et al., 2008), but we have come to similar conclusions as Dr. Haynes and decided not to accept the manuscript for final publication in ACP. The decision is supported by the entire ACP executive committee, but for clarity and simplicity the following editorial report is formulated from my perspective as the chief-e...

We propose an interactive Goal Programming (GP) for operational recovery problems that are present in diverse areas of application. After defining the problem we discuss its relevance to scenarios taken from airline scheduling, supply chain management and call centers operations. We then construct the GP procedure for operational recovery decision making and illustrate the mechanics of the prop...

We describe the design of an optimizer for 0-1 integer programming aimed at solving large problems. The algorithm is based on very simple operations giving it a low complexity, and we show that for large set covering problems it can produce very good solutions compared to other methods. This is the only optimizer in the Carmen system for airline crew scheduling, used by several major European a...

Civil aviation will soon celebrate its centenary. It emerged as a universal means of transportation, to which the latest technological innovations of many kinds have never ceased to be applied. Nowadays different vendor companies have developed an extensive range of solutions to improve the passenger’s journey, streamline and integrate airline and airport operations, track baggage and cargo, an...

Recently, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has received considerable attention and is considered to be the next wave of information technology revolution. The number of PFID applications in different industries is increasing continuously. Cumulative sales of RFID tag is up in 2006 which shows RFID adoption trend in industries to improve their efficiency of operations and to gain a competit...

The Integrated Diagnostic System (IDS) is an applied artificial intelligence (AI) project that deals with remotely monitoring a fleet of commercial aircraft and proactively alerting maintenance staff to problems which could disrupt operations. IDS uses a number of AI techniques to analyse situations and provide recommendations. IDS is very much a work in progress and the research has been adapt...

abstract airlines brands are getting new identities in the electronic age. because of growing new technologies like internet, there will be new strategic opportunities for airline companies to position their brand. on the other hand, religious tourism's industry has a sustainable market in iran, because of cultural issues. a lot of passengers prefer to do their religious travels with an ai...