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D. Center, C. In-toulouse, and . Center, He received his engineer's degrees (IEEAC in 1986, IAC in 1996) from the french civil aviation academy (ENAC) and his M.Sc. (1996) and Ph.D. (2004) in computer science from the "Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse" (INPT). A more detailed biography may be found here: http://pom.tls.cena.fr/?gianazza/ Cyril Allignol is currently a PhD student in the Planning, Optimization, and Modelling team of the 13 The POM team was formerly part of the Global Optimization Laboratory LOG He received his engineer's degree, BIOGRAPHIES David Gianazza is currently researcher in the Planning, Optimization, and Modelling team 13 of the Toulouse (France)IEEAC in 2006) from the french civil aviation academy (ENAC) and his M.Sc. computer science from the "Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, 2006.