Optimization model and algorithm for crew management during airline irregular operations

Journal of Combinatorial Optimization

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 305-321

  Wei, Guo ^a   Yu, Gang ^a   Song, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b CALEB Technologies Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

Crew management; Heuristics; Multi commodity network flow; Real time decision support

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008608682     PISSN: 13826905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009780410798     Document Type: Article

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