This study considers the aircraft sequencing and scheduling problem under the uncertainty of arrival and departure delays for multiple heterogeneous mixed-mode parallel runways. To enhance runway resilience, runway operations should remain robust to mitigate the effects of delay propagation. The main objective of this research was to identify an optimal schedule by evaluating the robustness of feasible solutions under its respective worst-case scenario. A novel artificial bee colony algorithm was developed and verified by experimental results. The proposed efficient artificial bee colony algorithm can obtain close-to-optimal results with less computational effort in regard to a one-hour flight traffic planning horizon.
In this article, we introduce the concept of model confidence bounds (MCB) for variable selection in the context of nested models. Similarly to the endpoints in the familiar confidence interval for parameter estimation, the MCB identifies two nested models (upper and lower confidence bound models) containing the true model at a given level of confidence. Instead of trusting a single selected model obtained from a given model selection method, the MCB proposes a group of nested models as candidates and the MCB's width and composition enable the practitioner to assess the overall model selection uncertainty. A new graphical tool—the model uncertainty curve (MUC)—is introduced to visualize the variability of model selection and to compare different model selection procedures. The MCB methodology is implemented by a fast bootstrap algorithm that is shown to yield the correct asymptotic coverage under rather general conditions. Our Monte Carlo simulations and real data examples confirm the validity and illustrate the advantages of the proposed method.
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