DSA ISC’24, Valencia
Decision Science Alliance International Summer Conference 2024
- Dates
- 6–7 June 2024
- Place
- Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
- Role
- Speakers and workshop leaders
- Presentation and workshop
- Decision Making in Commercial AviationGiacomo Belloni and Fabrizio Interlandi
The Decision Science Alliance International Summer Conference gathers researchers and practitioners from optimisation, operational research, artificial intelligence, statistics and simulation around a shared interest: how decisions are made, and how they can be made better. The 2024 edition was held on 6 and 7 June at the Universitat Politècnica de València, on the Vera campus, and looked at the future of decision science and at how technological advances are changing human decision-making.
Over two stimulating days, Captain Giacomo Belloni and Captain Fabrizio Interlandi represented HUMAI Research. On the first day they presented their work on decision making in commercial aviation from the main stage. On the second day they led an interactive workshop, which drew wide participation and thoughtful engagement from the audience.
The presentation showed how decisions are actually taken on the flight deck, where pilots work with highly automated systems while time pressure, weather, technical issues and the needs of the operation change from one moment to the next. Automation and optimisation tools handle routine situations very well. Novel and complex situations, for which no procedure has been written, still depend on the judgement of the crew. The workshop brought these ideas into practice, working through realistic operational cases such as fuel planning and asking participants to reason and decide as a crew would.
Our thanks go to the Decision Science Alliance and to the Universitat Politècnica de València for their hospitality and for an enriching experience.