Postgraduate Course: Operational Research in the Airline Industry (MATH11042)
Course Outline
| School | School of Mathematics |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 5 |
ECTS Credits | 2.5 |
| Summary | This module will address real world applications of Operational Research in the airline industry. Two specific problems will be discussed, crew scheduling and yield management. Crew scheduling is the problem of the optimal use of crew and flight attendants. It can be formulated as a set partitioning problem, which requires sophisticated combinatorial optimization techniques to solve efficiently.
Yield management is the problem of selecting the fares to charge the customers and how to adjust these dynamically in response to bookings. Specific pricing strategies with tools, techniques and their implementation will be discussed. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
| Understanding of real word applications of Operational Research in the airline industry. The ability to formulate and solve certain combinatorial optimization problems as set partitioning problems.
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Burak Buke
Tel: (0131 6)50 5086
Email: b.buke@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Frances Reid
Tel: (0131 6)50 4883
Email: f.c.reid@ed.ac.uk |
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