Episode IV: Striking Oil

Episode 4 of the “Thirty Years” series revisits the origins of Rave, developed through early collaboration with Lufthansa to address the real-world complexities of crew planning. 

The article explores how the need for flexible configuration emerged from a simple but critical principle: keeping the problem description isolated from the solution method, not falling for the temptation of taking shortcuts. It is a story about building adaptable tools around operational reality rather than forcing operations to fit rigid software logic. Read the full article here: Striking Oil.

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