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International audience; The annual number of flights in Western Europe has increased from about 2.6 million in 1982 to about 4.5 million in 1992, an increase of 73%. Acute congestion of the Air Traffic Control system has been the result. One way to reduce this congestion is to modify [...]

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Optimal flight gate assignment is a highly relevant optimization problem from airport management. Among others, an important goal is the minimization of the total transit time of the passengers. The corresponding objective function is quadratic in the binary decision variables encoding [...]

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We consider the assignment of gates to arriving and departing flights at a large hub airport. This problem is highly complex even in planning stage when all flight arrivals and departures are assumed to be known precisely in advance. There are various considerations that are involved [...]