Projects per year
Personal profile
Research interests
My research focuses on developing innovative exact and metaheuristic algorithms for real world applications, including but not limited to vehicle routing problems, scheduling problems, disaster relief management, and maritime logistics.
Willing to supervise PhD
I am highly interested in supervising new doctoral researchers in the field of Operational Research.
Education / Academic qualification
Operational Research, Doctor of Engineering, Università di Bologna
1 Oct 2007 → 30 Mar 2010
Industrial Engineering, Master of Engineering, Università di Bologna
1 Sep 2000 → 19 Dec 2005
Keywords
- optimisation
- routing
- scheduling
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Projects 2016 2017
- 1 Finished
GCRF - Safe Drugs for Developing Countries
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
18/07/16 → 17/03/17
Project: Research council
Research Output 2008 2018
Disaster preparedness using risk-assessment methods from earthquake engineering
Battarra, M., Balcik, B. & Xu, H. 16 Feb 2018 In : European Journal of Operational Research.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Earthquakes
Disasters
Risk assessment
Exact solution of the single-machine scheduling problem with periodic maintenances and sequence-dependent setup times
Nesello, V., Subramanian, A., Battarra, M. & Laporte, G. 16 Apr 2018 In : European Journal of Operational Research. 266, 2, p. 498-507 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Sequence-dependent setup times
Maintenance
Single machine scheduling
Scheduling
Scheduling problem
2
Citations
The Block Retrieval Problem
Melo, M., Erdoğan, G., Battarra, M. & Strusevich, V. 16 Mar 2018 In : European Journal of Operational Research. 265, 3, p. 931-950 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Relocation
Containers
Port terminals
Hardness
The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Routing and Trajectory Optimisation Problem
Pereira Coutinho, W., Battarra, M. & fliege, J. 19 Apr 2018 In : Computers and Industrial Engineering.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Location of a hierarchy of HIV/AIDS test laboratories in an inbound hub network: case study in South Africa
Smith, H., Cakebread, D., Battarra, M., Shelbourne, B., Cassim, N. & Coetzee, L. 1 Sep 2017 In : Journal of the Operational Research Society. 68, 9, p. 1068–1081 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Blood
Health
Testing
Travel time
South Africa