New algorithmic approach generates up to 5 per cent gain in crewing performance

APM’s Dr Nik Eggen­berg will demon­strate how the adop­tion of ‘col­umn gen­er­a­tion’ algo­r­tihms with­in crew sim­u­la­tion soft­ware can deliv­er a per­for­mance improve­ment of between 3–5 per cent when he speaks at AGIFORS’ Crew Man­age­ment con­fer­ence in Frank­furt lat­er this month.

Using evi­dence drawn from real-life air­line case stud­ies, Nik will high­light how an opti­miser apply­ing meta­heuris­tic col­umn gen­er­a­tion, such as that adopt­ed in APM’s crew­ing sim­u­la­tion envi­ron­ment CrewSim, can gen­er­ate greater effi­cien­cies in the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of crew estab­lish­ments, opti­mi­sa­tion and post-flight per­for­mance analysis.

He will explain that a col­umn gen­er­a­tion-based opti­miser enables users to tack­le mul­ti­ple-objec­tive opti­mi­sa­tion one KPI at a time.

By trans­lat­ing algo­rithms into a dynam­ic user-friend­ly inter­face — with graphs enabling easy iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of the best pare­to-opti­mal solu­tion and post-flight per­for­mance analy­sis — users are able to eas­i­ly iden­ti­fy both indi­vid­ual KPIs, such as indi­vid­ual duty time, that can simul­ta­ne­ous­ly con­tribute to the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of broad­er, tar­get­ed, KPIs such as opti­mi­sa­tion of block time.

Nik will deliv­er his pre­sen­ta­tion — called ‘A Ros­ter Sim­u­la­tion solu­tion for Opti­mi­sa­tion Estab­lish­ment and Per­for­mance Analy­sis’ — at the AGIFORS event on 18 June.