GENERATING AND TUNING AN ALLOCATION OF TRANSPORTATION RESOURCES

Patent №

US 7,860,740

Granted

2010-12-28

Filed 2010

Owner

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO.

Lab

AI components

4

ml · kr · planning · evo

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12796578

Techniques for refining a schedule involve identifying schedule alternatives to an original schedule and generating one or more substitute schedules using one or more of the schedule alternatives. An objective function is used to perform an analysis of the original schedule and the one or more substitute schedules, and a refined schedule is selected based on the analysis.

AI classification

Evolutionary computation1.00
Planning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Machine learning0.68
AI hardware0.38
Natural language0.03
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO.

assignment · 246460772

Assignors

ANBIL, RANGA, HEINOLD, ALEX MICHAEL, ANBIL, RANGA, HEINOLD, ALEX MICHAEL

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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