Publications

Citations:  Google Scholar

Journals:

• Ismael Rafai, Zakaria Babutsidze, Thierry Delahaye, Nobuyuki Hanaki, Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, No evidence of attraction effect among recommended options: A large-scale field experiment on an online flight aggregator. Decision Support Systems, 2022. Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2021.113672 

• Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, Eoin Thomas, and Alix Lhéritier , Price elasticity estimation for deep learning-based choice models: an application to air itinerary choices, Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management, 20(3), 213-226, 2021 (link)

• Serigne Gueye, Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, Ezequiel Geremia, Philippe Michelon, Thiago Gouveia. Worldwide Air Passenger Flows Estimation. ORMS Today, 2021. (link)

• Nicolas Bondoux, Thomas Fiig, Quan Nguyen, and Rodrigo Acuna Agost, Reinforcement Learning Applied to Airline Revenue Management. Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management.   2020  (link)

• Z Babutsidze, W Rand, E Mirzayev, I Rafai, N Hanaki, T Delahaye, R Acuna-Agost Asymmetric Dominance in Airfare Choice. International Choice Modelling Conference 2019

• Alix Lhéritier and Michael Bocamazo and Thierry Delahaye and Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, Airline itinerary choice modeling using machine learning, Journal of Choice Modelling, 2019 (link)

• Mourad Boudia, Thierry Delahaye, Semi Gabteni, Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, Novel approach to deal with demand volatility on fleet assignment models. Journal of the Operational Research Society (JORS), 2017 . (Link)

• J. Guépet, O. Briant, J.P. Gayon, R. Acuna-Agost, Integration of aircraft ground movements and runway operations. accepted in Journal: Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review  (2017)

• T. Delahaye, R.Acuna-Agost, N. Bondoux, A-Q. Nguyen, M. Boudia,   Data-Driven Models for Itinerary Preferences of Air Travelers and Application for Dynamic Pricing Optimization Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management JRPM.  ISSN 1477-657X, doi 10.1057/s41272-017-0095-z, Pages 1-19 (2017) (link)

• J. Guépet, O. Briant, J.P. Gayon, R. Acuna-Agost.  The aircraft ground routing problem: Analysis of industry punctuality indicators in a sustainable perspective. European Journal of Operational Research (2015). (link)

• J. Guépet, R. Acuna-Agost, O. Briant, J.P. Gayon. Exact and Heuristic Approaches to the Airport Stand Allocation Problem. Volume 246, Issue 2, 16 October 2015, p597–608. European Journal of Operational Research (2015). (link)

• R. Acuna-Agost, P. Michelon, D. Feillet, and S. Gueye. SAPI: Statistical Analysis of Propagation of Incidents. A new Approach for Rescheduling Trains after Disruptions.  European Journal of Operational Research 215, p227–243 (2011). (link)

• R. Acuna-Agost, D. Feillet, S. Gueye, and P. Michelon; A MIP-based local search method for the railway rescheduling problem; Networks 57(1): 69-86 (2011) (link) 

Patents filled:

• Benoit LARDEUX, Rodrigo ACUNA AGOST, et al.  “RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING CASCADED MACHINE LEARNING MODELS” granted on 27 December 2022. US Patent 11538086 .

• Rodrigo Acuna Agost et al. Reinforcement learning systems and methods for inventory control and optimization US Patent App. 17/287,675

• Rodrigo Acuna Agost, Alejandro  Mottini D'Oliveira, David Renaudie. Methods and systems for intelligent adaptive bidding in an automated online exchange network. US20190080363A1

• Rodrigo Acuna Agost, Alejandro  Mottini D'Oliveira, David Renaudie. Systems and methods for real-time online traveler segmentation using machine learning. US20190080362A1

• David Renaudie, Maria Zuluaga, Rodrigo Acuna Agost. System and method for evaluating and deploying unsupervised or semi-supervised machine learning models. EP3588327B1
  European patent office: link 

• Rodrigo Acuna Agost, Alejandro Mottini D'Oliveira, David Renaudie. Machine learning methods and systems for predicting online user interactions. US20190080260A1

• Benoit LARDEUX, Rodrigo  ACUNA AGOST. Data warehouse for mining search query logs. US Patent  US20170364932A1 2016 https://patents.google.com/patent/US20170364932A1

• Rodrigo ACUNA-AGOST, Thierry DELAHAYE, Thilo PFEIFFER, Vehicle Stand Allocation. US Patent App. 14/174,196 . 2015  https://www.google.com/patents/US20150220865

• Mourad Boudia, Rodrigo Acuna Agost, Baptiste Chatrain, Thierry DELAHAYE,  Flight schedule optimization.  US Patent App.US20160071044 A1. https://www.google.com/patents/US20160071044 

Book / Chapters:

• Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, Eoin Thomas, and Alix Lhéritier , Price elasticity estimation for deep learning-based choice models: an application to air itinerary choices, Book: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Travel Industry: Simplifying Complex Decision Making (2023). Link

• Eric CHARTON, Nathalie CAMELIN, Rodrigo ACUNA-AGOST, Rémi LAVALLEY, Remy KESSLER, Sylvia FERNANDEZ. Chapter: Pré-traitements classiques ou par analyse distributionnelle : application aux méthodes de classification automatique déployées pour DEFT2008,11/2012; ISBN: 978-2-7462-3836-7 In book: Expérimentations et évaluations en fouille de textes : Un panorama des campagnes DEFT, (2012). Publisher: Hermes Science Publications, Editors: GROUIN Cyril, FOREST Dominic, pp.Chapitre 4. (link)

Other Publicly Available Papers:

• Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, Ezequiel Geremia, Thiago Gouveia, Serigne Gueye, Micheli Knechtel, and Philippe Michelon, Worldwide Passenger Flows Estimation.  European Study Group with Industry (2016). Report:  http://esgi2016uapv.sciencesconf.org/conference/esgi2016uapv/pages/ReportESGI.pdf

• R. Acuna-Agost, C. Mancel, M. Boudia, N. Jozefowiez, Nicolas, A Passenger Recovery Approach for Airline Disruption Management (2015). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2707676

• R. Acuna-Agost, D. Feillet, P. Michelon, and S. Gueye; Rescheduling Flights, Aircraft, and Passengers Simultaneously under Disrupted Operations - A Mathematical Programming Approach based on Statistical Analysis; AGIFORS (Participated to Anna Valicek Medal 2009); (2009) (link)

• Rojas-Mora, Julio, Gil-Lafuente, Jaime and Acuna-Agost, Rodrigo, Obtaining the Minimum Winning Coalition Through Fuzzy Subsets and Binary Integer Programming (BIP). Available at SSRN:http://ssrn.com/abstract=1663324 (2010)  

• Gil-Lafuente, Jaime, Rojas-Mora, Julio and Acuna-Agost, Rodrigo, And Now, With Whom Do We Have to Pact? A Mathematical Model to Obtain Government Coalitions in a Parliamentary Democracy (Y Ahora con Quién Tenemos Que Pactar? Modelo Matemático Para la Obtención de Coaliciones de Gobierno en una Democracia Parlamentaria) (Spanish) (March 23, 2009). Proceedings of the XXIII Annual Congress of the AEDEM, 2009. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1657897 

 Conferences / talks:

• Rodrigo ACUNA AGOST et al. "Panel on AI Ethics - From Theory to Practice" Sophia Summit 2023

• Rodrigo ACUNA AGOST, Sacha N.,. "Artificial Intelligence - Next Level" Amadeus Synergize, Athens, Greece, 2023

• Rodrigo ACUNA AGOST,. "OR and AI in travel" Data Science Seminar - Aeroports de Paris, 2023

• Rodrigo ACUNA AGOST,. "OR and AI to improve traveller experience" INFORMS Webminar 2023

• Rodrigo ACUNA AGOST, "AI Ethics: What is it?  Whay should I care?" AzurTech Summer 2023

• Rodrigo Acuna-Agost. KEYNOTE: Operations Research (OR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications in the Travel Industry. CPAIOR 2023 (link)

• Rodrigo Acuna-Agost. Understanding travellers and optimizing their experience with AI. ConnectAI,  2022. Link

• Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, Eoin Thomas, and Alix Lhéritier , Estimation of price elasticities on passenger itinerary choice situations , AGIFORS Symposium  2021 (Video: YouTube )

• Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, How AI Can Improve the Traveler Experience. SophIA Summit, 2019  (link)

• Rodrigo Acuna-Agost. The role of AI in the passenger journey. AGIFORS Symposium, Seattle WA, 2019  (link)

• Ismael Rafai, Thierry Delahaye, Zakaria Babut-sidze, Nobuyuki Hanaki, Rodrigo Acuna-Agost. Attraction Effect in Online Flight Booking: A large-scale field experiment. CODE at MIT, 2019 (link) 

• Eoin Thomas, Antonio Gonzalez Ferrer, Benoit Lardeux, Mourad Boudia, Christian Haas-Frangii and Rodrigo Acuna Agost. Cascaded Machine Learning Model for Efficient Hotel Recommendations from Air Travel Bookings. RECTOUR, a RECSYS workshop. 2019  

• Babutsidze Z., Rand W., Mirzayev E., Rafai I., Hanaki N., Delahaye T.,  Acuna-Agost R.,  "Asymmetric dominance in airfare choice", International Choice Modeling Conference, Kobe, Japan, 2019 

• Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, "Predicting Passenger Choices considering Irrational Behavior", IATA Aviation Data Symposium, Athens, Greece, 2019 (link)

• Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, "How to predict choices when people are not fully rational”, DataBeers, Madrid Campus, 2019 (link)

• Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, "Machine learning in high-volume, high-throughput, massively distributed data for commercial air travel", Tech Talk at MIT, 2018 (link)

• David Renaudie, Maria A. Zuluaga, and Rodrigo Acuna-Agost , Benchmarking Anomaly Detection Algorithms in an Industrial Context: Dealing with Scarce Labels and Multiple Positive Types, IEEE BigData 2018 

• Thierry Delahaye, Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, Leveraging cognitive biases and the decoy effect to model sales conversion, AGIFORS Symposium, Tokyo, 2018 

• Alejandro Mottini, Alix Lheritier, Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, Maria A. Zuluaga, Understanding Customer Choices to Improve Recommendations in the Air Travel Industry. RecTour@RecSys 2018: 28-32. Link to paper

• Alejandro Mottini, Alix Lhéritier and Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, Airline Passenger Name Record Generation using Generative Adversarial Networks. ICML 2018 Workshops - TADGM. Theoretical Foundations and Applications of Deep Generative Models. (link). Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.06657.pdf 

• Rodrigo Acuna-Agost. Imagining the impact of artificial intelligence on travel. IATA Data Symposium, Berlin, 2018

• Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, Thomas Fiig. The End of RMS as We Know It? (Deep) reinforcement learning for airline revenue management. AGIFORS Symposium 2017, London

• Panel Speaker. Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Aviation Webinar. IATA 2017 ( link)

• Alejandro Mottini, Rodrigo Acuna-Agost.  Deep Choice Model Using Pointer Networks for Airline Itinerary Predictions. KDD 2017. (link)

• A. Lheritier, M. Bocamazo, T. Delahaye, R. Acuna-Agost. Airline Itinerary Choice Modeling Using Machine Learning. International Choice Modelling Conference 2017. ICMC 2017. Cape Town, South Africa. 2017

• Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, Zacharie Ales, Ezequiel Geremia, Thiago Gouveia, Serigne Gueye, Micheli Knechtel, Philippe Michelon. Worldwide Passenger Flows Estimation. ROADEF 2017

• Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, Data-Driven Models for Itinerary Preferences of Air Travelers. AGIFORS Symposium 2016 (link)

• Alejandro Mottini, Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, Relative Label Encoding for the Prediction of Airline Passenger Nationality. In Proc. IEEE ICDM workshop on Data Science and Big Data Analytics, Barcelona, Spain 2016 (paper)

• Rodrigo Acuna-Agost. Challenges in data-driven projects for the Travel Industry. Paris Big Data summit 2016. (link) 

• Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, Olivier Ratier et Mourad Boudia, Amadeus Airport Management Suite. ROADEF 2016, Compiègne, France (2016) (link)

• Rodrigo ACUNA-AGOST, Salah-Addine BENMOUSSATI, Thierry DELAHAYE, Julien GUEPET, Synergistic integration of optimization and discrete simulation techniques for robust airport operations. AGIFORS Symposium 2015, Washington (2015) (link)

• J. Guépet, R. Acuna-Agost, O. Briant, J.P. Gayon. Optimisation du routage des avions au sol dans les aéroports. ROADEF 2015, Marseille, France (2015) (link)

• S. Benmoussati, T. Delahaye, R. Acuna-Agost, J. Guépet. Simulation de mouvements d'avions dans un aéroport avec visualisation 3D. Application à la robustesse de l'allocation de point de parkings pour avions.  ROADEF 2015, Marseille, France (2015) (link)

• A. Abderrahmane, V. Weber, P. Pandey, R. Acuna-Agost. Gestion d’annulations massives de vols en cas de perturbations aériennes majeures.  ROADEF 2015, Marseille, France (2015) (link)

• Rodrigo Acuna-Agost and Valentin Weber. Human versus machine - the story of a schedule recovery benchmark. AGIFORS Symposium 2014, Dubai, UAE (2014) (link)  - Best Overall Presentation Award 

• J. Guépet, R. Acuna Agost, O. Briant, J.P. Gayon. Comparison of Ground Routing Approaches. AGIFORS Airline Operations 2014, Panama (2014) (link)

• T. Pfeiffer, R. Acuna Agost, T. Delahaye, S. Jouhri, (in French) Intégration du problème du prépositionnement d'avion au poste de parking et portes d'embarquement en minimisant le risque de connections manquées, ROADEF 2014, Bordeaux, France (2014) (link)

• J. Guépet, R. Acuna Agost, O. Briant, J.P. Gayon, (in French) Le probleme de routing des avions au sol, ROADEF 2014, Bordeaux, France (2014) (link)

• Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, Daniel Perez and Julien Guepet. An Exact Solution Approach for the Airport Stand Allocation Problem. TRISTAN VIII, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile (2013) (link)

• J. Guépet, R. Acuña Agost, O. Briant, J.P. Gayon, D. Perez, The Airport Stand Allocation Problem: A Posteriori Guaranteed Methods, ROADEF 2013, Troyes, France (2013)

• Rodrigo Acuna-Agost. Processes and Problems in the Air Transport Industry - An Operational Research Perspective. Séminaire Industriel Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, CMP Georges Charpak (2013)

• Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, Thierry Delahaye, Julien Guepet, Daniel Perez. Stand Allocation in Airports - New Solution Approaches and Results. INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix AZ, USA (2012) (link)

• Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, The Stand Allocation Problem: Solution Methods & Robustness. AGIFORS Operations 2012, Atlanta, USA (2012) (link)

• Semi Gabteni, Rodrigo Acuna Agost, Olivier Ratier,  Thierry Delahaye. Operations Research for Airport Operations - Achievements and Perspective. ROADEF 2012, Angers, France (2012) (link)

• Rodrigo Acuna Agost, Baptiste Chatrain, Mourad Boudia, Thierry Delahaye, Julio Rojas-Mora: We are not independent. On booking data correlation and its applications. AGIFORS Symposium, Antalya,Turkey (2011). ISBN: 978-1-61839-446-0 (link)

• Rodrigo Acuna Agost, Baptiste Chatrain, Mourad Boudia, Thierry Delahaye, Othman Moumni Abdou, Semi Gabteni: A Network Planning Framework. AGIFORS Symposium, Antalya, Turkey (2011). ISBN: 978-1- 61839-446-0 (link)

• Rodrigo Acuna Agost, Baptiste Chatrain, Mourad Boudia, Semi Gabteni. (in French): Deux applications de la recherche opérationnelle pour la gestion des perturbations dans le domaine aérien. AFIA 2011, Chambery, France (2011) (link)

• Baptiste Chatrain, Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, Mourad Boudia, Daniel Perez, Semi Gabteni. The Triple Crown of Schedule Recovery. AGIFORS Airline Operations 2011 - Effective Operations During Major Disruptions, London (2011) (link)

• Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, Catherine Mancel, Nicolas Josefowiez, Mourad Boudia, Daniel Perez, Semi Gabteni, Large Scale Reaccommodation, AGIFORS  Ailine Operations 2010, Brisbane, Australia

• Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, Mourad Boudia, Semi Gabteni, Nicolas Jozefowiez, Catherine Mancel, Félix Mora-Camino; Passenger Improver - A Second Phase Method for Integrated Aircraft-Passenger Recovery Systems, TRISTAN VII, Tromso, Norway (2010) (link)

• Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, Mourad Boudia, Semi Gabteni, Nicolas Jozefowiez, Catherine Mancel, Félix Mora-Camino; Méthodes de recherche opérationnelle pour la gestion des perturbations dans le domaine aérien, ROADEF 2010, Toulouse, France (link)

• R. Acuna-Agost, Reprogramación de Operaciones Ferroviarias y Aéreas en caso de Perturbaciones, CONFERENCIA, Magister y Centro de Alumnos de Ingeniería Industrial, Concepcion, Chile (2010) (link)

• R. Acuna-Agost, Mathematical Modeling and Methods for Rescheduling Trains under Disrupted Operations. Séminaire Centre Microélectronique de Provence de l’École des mines de Saint-Étienne, Gardanne, France (2009)

• R. Acuna-Agost, P. Michelon, D. Feillet, and S. Gueye. SAPI - A new solution scheme in disruption management, EURO 2009, Bonn, Germany. (2009) (link) (link2)

• Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, Philippe Michelon, Dominique Feillet and Serigne Gueye. Constraint Programming and Mixed Integer Linear Programming for Rescheduling Trains under Disrupted Operations. In: Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems - CPAIOR 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences - LNCS 5547. (2009) (link)

• R. Acuna-Agost, P. Michelon, D. Feillet, and S. Gueye; Statistical Analysis of Propagation of Incidents for rescheduling simultaneously flights and passengers under disturbed operations; ROADEF 2009, Nancy, France. (2009) (link)

• R. Acuna-Agost, P. Michelon, D. Feillet, and S. Gueye; Méthode hybride PPC/PLNE pour le réordonnancement de plan de circulation ferroviaire en cas d’incident; ROADEF 2009, Nancy, France. (2009) (link)

• R. Acuna-Agost, D. Feillet, S. Gueye, et P. Michelon; Méthodes PLNE pour le réordonnancement de plan de circulation ferroviaire en cas d’incident; ROADEF 2008, Clermont-Ferrand, France. (2008)

• E. Charton, N. Camelin, R. Acuna-Agost, P. Gotab, R. Lavalley, R. Kessler, S. Fernandez; Pré-traitements classiques ou par analyse distributionnelle : application aux méthodes de classification automatique déployées pour DEFT08; DEFT 2008, Avignon, France. (2008) (link)

• R. Acuna-Agost, D. Feillet, S. Gueye, and P. Michelon; SAPI: Statistical Analysis of Propagation of Incidents: A new approach applied to solve the railway rescheduling problem. NCP 2007, Rouen, France. (2007) (link)

• E. Charton, R. Acuna-Agost; Quel modèle pour détecter une opinion? Trois propositions pour généraliser l’extraction d’une idée dans un corpus; DEFT 2007; Grenoble, France. (2007)

• Rodrigo Acuña Agost; Planificación, programación y control de la producción en una empresa manufacturera de calzado. Encuentro de Soluciones Tecnológicas y de Gestión para la Empresa Moderna. Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Concepción, Chile. (2005)

• R. San Martin, R. Acuña Agost; Planificacion agregada para una fábrica de calzado; XII CLAIO 2004, La Habana, Cuba. (2004)

• Rodrigo Acuña; Desarrollo e implementación de un software que resuelve el problema de planificacion de materiales capacitado (MRP). X ELAVIO, Montevideo, Uruguay. (2004) (link)