Airline Optimisation (operations research / linear programming)

Cancelled Posted Jul 19, 2010 Paid on delivery
Cancelled Paid on delivery

The airline industry experiences very challenging times, and many airlines need to undertake substantial changes to their business processes to get back to profitability. As Operations of an airline is generally considered a cost driver, there is a big emphasis on cost effectiveness to make improvements to the bottom line. This push towards cost savings is supported by the use of optimization systems that improve the utilization of scarce and expensive resources such as aircraft, crew, gates, etc. To maximize the benefits of resource optimization, one needs to identify, model and solve the right operational problems.

We are an airline software development house specialising in aviation solutons specifically for crew and aircraft.

Part of our planned product mix includes mathmatical optimisation solutions that are used to determine 'best fit' to a number of competing goals

We want a development partner that can work with us to develope airline optimisation solutions for:

- tail assignment

- crew pairings

These will utilise a number of LP / Column Generation techniques

A good over is at:

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Also take a look at:

- <[url removed, login to view]>

- http[://[url removed, login to view]][1]

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Our partner needs to understand the maths - we can teach the domain knowledge if needs be !

## Deliverables

1) All deliverables will be considered "work made for hire" under U.S. Copyright law. Employer will receive exclusive and complete copyrights to all work purchased. (No GPL, GNU, 3rd party components, etc. unless all copyright ramifications are explained AND AGREED TO by the employer on the site per the worker's Worker Legal Agreement).

2) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done.

3) Deliverables must be in ready-to-run condition, as follows (depending on the nature of the deliverables):

a) For web sites or other server-side deliverables intended to only ever exist in one place in the Employer's environment--Deliverables must be installed by the Worker in ready-to-run condition in the Employer's environment.

b) For all others including desktop software or software the employer intends to distribute: A software installation package that will install the software in ready-to-run condition on the platform(s) specified in this project.

* * *This broadcast message was sent to all bidders on Monday Feb 7, 2011 11:34:00 PM:

Hi all - we have reactivated this project so please take a look at the Crew Pairings problem initially and let me know if you can help us. We'd be glad to engage !

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* * *This broadcast message was sent to all bidders on Tuesday Feb 22, 2011 3:44:34 PM:

Hi - my last broadcast was removed by the facilator as there was some confusion as to what I was asking. As all of you can appreciate, this is a highly technical problem and requires some domain understanding and a deep understanding of the maths and the outcomes desired. Hence my request was to be able to narrow down the bidders to those who I thought would have a reasonable chance of success. SO, reposting again my Broadcase mssage. TO ALL BIDDERS. We are looking for a long term relationship with a partner that can partner with us for Airline based optimisation. We have plans that include: - tail assignment - pairing - roster - recovery For those that want to work with us, we'll provide you a basic aircraft schedule and ask you to complete a 'tail assignment' problem. That will determine our shortlist. From there, we will move into a pairing problem. NOTE we do not require your source code for this - just a solution so we can determine if you understand the problem. thankyou. PS - take a look at our website - [url removed, login to view]"

## Platform

C# .NET 4.0 framework potentially based on Microsoft Solver Foundation.

Software Architecture Technical Writing

Project ID: #3586262

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