Francesco Vannotti

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2001
—ORCID · none

Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several

Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper
Data mining · 100%
Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper
Computational finance and economics · 100%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Data mining › predictive modeling
classification
0.012001
Data mining techniques to improve forecast accuracy in airline business · KDD 2001
Data mining › predictive modeling › regression
logistic regression
0.012001
Data mining techniques to improve forecast accuracy in airline business · KDD 2001
Data mining › predictive modeling
regression
0.012001
Data mining techniques to improve forecast accuracy in airline business · KDD 2001
Computational finance and economics
revenue management
0.012001
Data mining techniques to improve forecast accuracy in airline business · KDD 2001

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

logistic regression · 0.1classification trees · 0.0classification tree · 0.0
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2001 Data mining techniques to improve forecast accuracy in airline business
abstract
Predictive models developed by applying Data Mining techniques are used to improve forecasting accuracy in the airline business. In order to maximize the revenue on a flight, the number of seats available for sale is typically higher than the physical seat capacity (overbooking). To optimize the overbooking rate, an accurate estimation of the number of no-show passengers (passengers who hold a valid booking but do not appear at the gate to board for the flight) is essential. Currently, no-shows on future flights are estimated from the number of no-shows on historical flights averaged on booking class level. In this work, classification trees and logistic regression models are applied to estimate the probability that an individual passenger turns out to be a no-show. Passenger information stored in the reservation system of the airline is either directly used as explanatory variable or used to create attributes that have an impact on the probability of a passenger to be a no-show. The total number of no-shows in each booking class or on the total flight is then obtained by accumulating the individual no-show probabilities over the entity of interest. We show that this forecasting approach is more accurate than the currently used method. In addition, the selected models lead to a deepened insight into passenger behavior.
Christoph Hüglin, Francesco Vannotti
KDD2