A new concept for disruption management in airline operations control

作者：Castro A J M^*; Oliveira E

来源：Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers - Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering , 2011, 225(G3): 269-290.

DOI：10.1243/09544100JAERO864

• disruption management
• operations recovery
• airline operations
• multi-agent systems
• intelligent agents
• quality costs

The Airline Operations Control Centre (AOCC) of an airline company is the organization responsible for monitoring and solving operational problems. It includes teams of human experts specialized in solving problems related with aircrafts, crewmembers, and passengers, in a process called disruption management or operations recovery. In this article, the authors propose a new concept for disruption management in this domain. The organization of the AOCC is represented by a multi-agent system (MAS), where roles that correspond to the most frequent tasks that could benefit from a cooperative approach, are performed by intelligent agents. The human experts, represented by agents that are able to interact with them, are part of this AOCC-MAS supervising the system and taking the final decision from the solutions proposed by the AOCC-MAS. The authors show the architecture of this AOCC-MAS, including the main costs involved and details about how the system takes decisions. They tested the concept, using several real airline crew-related problems and using four methods: human experts (traditional way), the AOCC-MAS with and without using quality-costs, and the integrated approach presented in this article. The results are presented and discussed.

• 出版日期2011-3