Agent-based Modelling and Simulation of Airline Operations Control Decision-Making under Uncertainty

Motivated by the need to understand and further optimize AOC decision making processes under uncertainty, this paper implements and evaluates the effects of operational uncertainties using Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation. The specific application concerns a challenging scenario composed of two consecutive disruptions. To evaluate the...

Formal modelling and verification of a multi-agent negotiation approach for airline operations control

This paper proposes and evaluates a new airline disruption management strategy using multi-agent system modelling, simulation, and verification. This new strategy is based on a multi-agent negotiation protocol and is compared with three airline strategies based on established industry practices. The application concerns Airline Operations...

Agent-based analysis of airline and railway command and control systems

Airline and train operations are feasible thanks to the Command and Control systems which involve interactions between human operators, technology, and procedures. In view of the expected growing demand, significant changes in these C2 systems are in development in many countries. Such changes can lead to both positive and negative emergent...

Using convolutional neural networks to automate aircraft maintenance visual inspection

Convolutional Neural Networks combined with autonomous drones are increasingly seen as enablers of partially automating the aircraft maintenance visual inspection process. Such an innovative concept can have a significant impact on aircraft operations. Though supporting aircraft maintenance engineers detect and classify a wide range of...

Towards automated aircraft maintenance inspection. A use case of detecting aircraft dents using mask r-cnn

Deep learning can be used to automate aircraft maintenance visual inspection. This can help increase the accuracy of damage detection, reduce aircraft downtime, and help prevent inspection accidents. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the potential of this method in supporting aircraft engineers to automatically detect aircraft...