Audience
This course addresses modelling developers with a deep understanding of Rave and APC.

Benefits
The course gives you a deep understanding of the Rave-APC interaction, specific for the pairing column generator. After completing the course you will be able to:

• Tune pairing Rave code for better performance
• Fully understand the Rave-modelling capabilities of the column generator

Prerequisites
A deep understanding of the Carmen Crew Pairing system gained through at least 6 months of experince using the system and by attending the courses Pairing I, Pairing II and Pairing Optimization. Experience from implementing/ maintaining a pairing rule set is an advantage.

Course topics
The following is already covered to some extent, in previous courses. Here we completely focus on the column generator interaction, and all performance aspects are pointed out in more detail.

• APC general


• Colgen
• Duty Network
• Objective functions
• Rule features
• Over estimates
• Under estimates
• Resources
• Global Constraints
• Illegal subchains
• Map variables


• A real case
• Improve existing Rave code
• Tools for analyzing
• Step-by-step guide

All exercises are done using a generic flight data and rule set ("Carmen Airlines").

Duration
2 days.