Alberto Santini

About

I am an associate professor of Operational Research and a “Ramon y Cajal” fellow at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. I am also an affiliate professor at the Barcelona Graduate School of Mathematics and the Data Science Centre of the Barcelona School of Economics. During 2025-2027, I am coordinating the Transportation group of the Spanish O.R. Society.

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• Contact: alberto.santini@upf.edu

Publications

• Santini, A., & Vaze, V. (2025). Integrated Schedule Planning for Regional Airlines Using Column Generation.
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• Delle Donne, D., Santini, A., & Archetti, C. (2025). Integrating Public Transport in Sustainable Last-Mile Delivery: Column Generation Approaches. Available on-line (in advance) in the European Journal of Operational Research.
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  @article{delledonne2025fot,
    title={Integrating Public Transport in Sustainable Last-Mile Delivery: Column Generation Approaches},
    author={{Delle Donne}, Diego and Santini, Alberto and Archetti, Claudia},
    journal={European Journal of Operational Research},
    year=2025,
    note={Available (in advance)},
    doi={10.1016/j.ejor.2024.12.047}
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• Mandal, M. P., Santini, A., & Archetti, C. (2025). Tactical workforce sizing and scheduling decisions for last-mile delivery. European Journal of Operational Research, 323 (1), pp. 153-169.
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  @article{mandal2025stability,
    title={Tactical workforce sizing and scheduling decisions for last-mile delivery},
    author={Mandal, Minakshi Punam and Santini, Alberto and Archetti, Claudia},
    journal={European Journal of Operational Research},
    year=2025,
    volume=323,
    issue=1,
    pages={153--169},
    doi={10.1016/j.ejor.2024.12.006}
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• Santini, A. (2025). Destination selection and flight scheduling for regional airlines at slot-constrained airports. International Transactions in Operational Research, 32 (3), pp. 1400-1421.
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  @article{santini2025regional,
    title={Destination selection and flight scheduling for regional airlines at slot-constrained airports},
    author={Santini, Alberto},
    journal={International Transactions in Operational Research},
    year=2025,
    volume=32,
    issue=3,
    pages={1400--1421},
    doi={10.1111/itor.13505}
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• Santini, A. & Malaguti, E. (2024). The min-Knapsack problem with compactness constraints and applications in statistics. European Journal of Operational Research, 321 (1), pp. 385-397.
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  @article{santini2024minknapsack,
    title={The min-Knapsack Problem with Compactness Constraints and Applications in Statistics},
    author={Santini, Alberto and Malaguti, Enrico},
    journal={European Journal of Operational Research},
    year=2024,
    volume=312,
    issue=1,
    pages={385--397},
    doi={10.1016/j.ejor.2023.07.020}
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• Santini, A., Schneider, M., Vidal, T., & Vigo, D. (2023). Decomposition strategies for vehicle routing heuristics. INFORMS Journal on Computing, 35.3, pp. 543-559.
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  @article{santini2023decomposition,
    title={Decomposition strategies for vehicle routing heuristics},
    author={Santini, Alberto and Schneider, Michael and Vidal, Thibaut and Vigo, Daniele},
    journal={INFORMS Journal on Computing},
    doi={10.1287/ijoc.2023.1288},
    year=2023,
    volume=35,
    number=3,
    pages={543--559}
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• Santini, A. & Archetti, C. (2023). The Hazardous Orienteering Problem. Networks, 81 (2), pp. 235-252.
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  @article{santini2023hazardous,
    title={The hazardous orienteering problem},
    author={Santini, Alberto and Archetti, Claudia},
    journal={Networks},
    doi={10.1002/net.22129},
    year=2023,
    volume=81,
    issue=2,
    pages={235--252}
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• Delorme, M. & Santini, A. (2022). Energy-efficient automated vertical farms. Omega, 109, Article ID 102611.
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  @article{delorme2022elevator,
    title={Energy-efficient automated vertical farms},
    author={Delorme, Maxence and Santini, Alberto},
    journal={Omega},
    volume=109,
    doi={10.1016/j.omega.2022.102611},
    year=2022,
    note={{Article ID 102611}}
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• Santini, A., Viana, A., Klimentova, X., & Pedroso, J.P. (2022). The probabilistic travelling salesman problem with crowdsourcing. Computers & Operations Research, 142, Article ID 105722.
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  @article{santini2022crowd,
    title={The probabilistic {Travelling Salesman Problem} with crowdsourcing},
    author={Santini, Alberto and Viana, Ana and Klimentova, Xenia and Pedroso, João Pedro},
    journal={{Computers \& Operations Research}},
    volume=142,
    doi={10.1016/j.cor.2022.105722},
    year=2022,
    note={{Article ID 105722}}
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• Monaci, M., Pike-Burke, C., & Santini, A. (2022). Exact algorithms for the 0-1 time-bomb knapsack problem. Computers & Operations Research, 145, Article ID 105848.
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  @article{monaci2022tbkp,
    title={Exact algorithms for the 0--1 time-bomb knapsack problem},
    author={Monaci, Michele and Pike-Burke, Ciara and Santini, Alberto},
    journal={{Computers \& Operations Research}},
    volume=145,
    doi={10.1016/j.cor.2022.105848},
    year=2022,
    note={{Article ID 105848}}
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• Santini, A., Schneider, M., Bartolini, E., & Lemos, V. (2021). The crop growth planning problem in vertical farming. European Journal of Operational Research, 294 (1), pp. 377-390.
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  @article{santini2021vf,
    title={The crop growth planning problem in vertical farming},
    author={Santini, Alberto and Schneider, Michael and Bartolini, Enrico and Greco de Lemos, Vinicius},
    journal={{European Journal of Operational Research}},
    year=2021,
    volume=294,
    issue=1,
    pages={377--390},
    doi={10.1016/j.ejor.2021.01.034}
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• Blum, C., Djukanovic, M., Santini, A., Jiang, H., Li, C.M., Manyà, F., & Raidl, G. (2021). Solving common longest subsequence problems via a transformation to the maximum clique problem. Computers & Operations Research, 125, Article ID 105089.
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  @article{blum2021commonss,
    title={Solving common longest subsequence problems via a transformation to the maximum clique problem},
    author={Blum, Christian and Djukanovic, Marko and Santini, Alberto and Jiang, Hua and Li, Chu-Min and Manyà, Felip and Raidl, Günter},
    journal={{Computers \& Operations Research}},
    volume=125,
    year=2021,
    doi={10.1016/j.cor.2020.105089},
    note={{Article ID 105089}}
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• Santini, A. (2021). Optimising the assignment of swabs and reagents for PCR testing during a viral epidemic. Omega, 102, Article ID 102341.
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  @article{santini2021covid,
    title={Optimising the assignment of swabs and reagents for PCR testing during a viral epidemic},
    author={Santini, Alberto},
    journal={Omega},
    year=2021,
    volume=102,
    doi={10.1016/j.omega.2020.102341},
    note={{Article ID 102341}}
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• Cornaz, D., Furini, F., Malaguti, E., & Santini, A. (2019). A note on selective line-graphs and partition colorings. Operations Research Letters, 47 (6), pp. 565–568.
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  @article{cornaz2019selective,
    title={A note on selective line-graphs and partition colorings},
    author={Cornaz, Denis and Furini, Fabio and Malaguti, Enrico and Santini, Alberto},
    journal={{Operations Research Letters}},
    year=2019,
    volume=47,
    issue=6,
    pages={565--568},
    doi={10.1016/j.orl.2019.08.005}
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• Santini, A. (2019). An Adaptive Large Neighbourhood Search Algorithm for the Orienteering Problem. Expert Systems with Applications, 123, pp. 154–167.
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  @article{santini2019op,
    title={An {Adaptive Large Neighbourhood Search} algorithm for the {Orienteering Problem}},
    author={Santini, Alberto},
    journal={{Expert Systems with Applications}},
    volume=123,
    year=2019,
    pages={154--167},
    doi={10.1016/j.eswa.2018.12.050}
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• Santini, A., Ropke, S., & Hvattum, L. (2018). A comparison of acceptance criteria for the Adaptive Large Neighbourhood Search metaheuristic. Journal of Heuristics, 24 (5), pp. 783–815.
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  @article{santini2018measuring,
    title={A comparison of acceptance criteria for the {Adaptive Large Neighbourhood Search} metaheuristic},
    author={Santini, Alberto and Ropke, Stefan and Hvattum, Lars Magnus},
    journal={{Journal of Heuristics}},
    volume=24,
    issue=5,
    pages={783--815},
    year=2018,
    doi={10.1007/s10732-018-9377-x}
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• Malaguti, E., Martello, S., & Santini, A. (2018). The Traveling Salesman Problem with Pickups, Deliveries, and Draft Limits. Omega, 74, pp. 50–58.
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  @article{malaguti2018travelling,
    title={The {Traveling Salesman Problem} with Pickups, Deliveries, and Draft Limits},
    author={Malaguti, Enrico and Martello, Silvano and Santini, Alberto},
    journal={{Omega}},
    volume=74,
    pages={50--58},
    year=2018,
    doi={10.1016/j.omega.2017.01.005}
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• Furini, F., Malaguti, E., & Santini, A. (2018). An Exact Algorithm for the Partition Coloring Problem. Computers & Operations Research, 92, pp. 170–181.
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  @article{furini2018branch,
    title={An Exact Algorithm for the {Partition Coloring Problem}},
    author={Furini, Fabio and Malaguti, Enrico and Santini, Alberto},
    journal={{Computers \& Operations Research}},
    pages={170--181},
    volume=92,
    year=2018,
    doi={10.1016/j.cor.2017.12.019}
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• Santini, A., Ropke, S., & Plum, C. (2017). A branch-and-price approach to the Feeder Network Design Problem. European Journal of Operational Research, 264 (2), pp. 607–622.
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  @article{santini2017feeder,
    title={A branch-and-price approach to the {Feeder Network Design Problem}},
    author={Santini, Alberto and Ropke, Stefan and Plum, Christian E.M.},
    journal={{European Journal of Operational Research}},
    pages={607--622},
    volume=264,
    issue=2,
    year=2017,
    doi={10.1016/j.ejor.2017.06.063}
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• Bettinelli, A., Santini, A., & Vigo, D. (2017). A real-time conflict solution algorithm for the Train Rescheduling Problem. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 106, pp. 237–265.
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  @article{bettinelli2017realtime,
    title={A real-time conflict solution algorithm for the {Train Rescheduling Problem}},
    author={Bettinelli, Andrea and Santini, Alberto and Vigo, Daniele},
    journal={{Transportation Research Part B: Methodological}},
    pages={237--265},
    volume=106,
    year=2017,
    doi={10.1016/j.trb.2017.10.005}
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• Santini, A., Friberg, H., & Ropke, S. (2015). A note on a model for quay crane scheduling with non-crossing constraints. Engineering Optimization, 47 (6), pp. 860–865.
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  @article{santini2015note,
    title={A note on a model for quay crane scheduling with non-crossing constraints},
    author={Santini, Alberto and Friberg, Henrik Alsing and Ropke, Stefan},
    journal={{Engineering Optimization}},
    volume=47,
    number=6,
    pages={860--865},
    year=2015,
    doi = {10.1080/0305215X.2014.958731}
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Scientific organisations I founded

• EUROYoung, a Forum within the Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO).
• AIROYoung, the youth branch of the Italian Operational Research Association.

Resources

• Companies working in Operational Research in Italy.
• PhD courses in Operational Research at Italian universities.
• Example use of the CPLEX C++ API.
• Example implementation of a Genetic Algorithm in C++.
• Example implementation of the Adaptive Large Neighbourhood Search in C++.
• Example implementation of a Biased Random-Key Genetic Algorithm in C++.
• Notes for the Italian State exam for chartered shipbroker (in Italian).