Alice Raffaele

Alice Raffaele

Postdoctoral researcher in Operations Research

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Good luck to the new AIROYoung board!

Since February 2021 until a few days ago, it has been an honor to serve the AIROYoung community as a joint coordinator and do it with Michele Barbato, Veronica Dal Sasso, Serena Fugaro, Giusy Macrina, and Lorenzo Peirano as a team.

8th AIROYoung Workshop in Rende

The 8th AIROYoung Workshop has just ended, and we of AIROYoung are very enthusiastic and proud of how it went! Indeed, more than 70 Ph.D. students, postdoctoral researchers, and practitioners attended the workshop at the University of Calabria, from Wednesday February 14th to Friday 16th.

If Dantzig had a sister

“For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common.” – Virginia Woolf, “A Room of One’s Own”

SMTWAP on European Journal of Operational Research

Finally, the article written together with Jean-François Côté and Renata Mansini, and born initially from my master’s thesis developed at the Université Laval in Québec City, has been accepted and published in the European Journal of Operational Research.

Revealing a less traveled road

“The Italian translation of teaching is “insegnare,” which comes from the Latin “in+signāre,” namely, “to leave a mark.” The memory of our first contact with O.R. is a mark that we all are passionate about and share. Sometimes it can be love at first sight, but sometimes it does take longer to find the passion.” –

A new AIROSpringer Series volume and the case study of Provincia di Brescia

Finally the volume entitled “Operations Research and Data Science in Public Services”, dedicated to the 6th AIROYoung Workshop (February 23–25, 2022 – Rome, Italy), has been published in the AIRO Springer Series. Matteo Cosmi (University of Luxembourg), Lorenzo Peirano (University of Brescia), Marcella Samà (Roma Tre University), and I were the Special Volume editors of the volume, which contains five accepted contributions presenting both methodological and application-oriented results. For more details, check it out the preface we wrote to present them.

ROAR at Cernusco sul Naviglio

At the beginning of February 2023, Alessandro Gobbi, Gabriella Colajanni, and I started a training course at the ITSOS Marie Curie Higher Secondary Education Institute in Cernusco sul Naviglio (Milan, Italy).

End of ROAR III

The experimentation of the third and last unit of ROAR ended with a special event at Filtrec S.p.A.. Filtrec is a manufacturer known worldwide for the production and distribution of hydraulic filters. For the final project of ROAR III, the Operations Manager Emanuele Giliani described to us the problem of optimizing milk-run routes to visit contractors several times a week. We adapted and simplified the problem based on students’ skills. We implemented a first version of the model in the classroom. Then, every group had to independently formulate and implement a different family of constraints. Once put these together, we obtained and solved the final version by using historical data given by the company. Finally, students wrote a report and held a presentation at Filtrec headquarters in Telgate (Bergamo, Italy), where they also visited the factory and the warehouse.

Start of ROAR III

Today we started the implementation of the third and last teaching unit of ROAR in the now Grade-12 class at IIS Antonietti in Iseo, Brescia. This unit is dedicated to the learning of Python and the PuLP library in order to implement and solve optimization problems. Overall, we are going to hold six lectures, the last one in January 2023.

OPS4Math

On Tuesday October 4, I had the chance to hold two teaching seminars in Naples, Italy, for the OPS4Math project. OPS4Math is currently addressed to about 30 higher-secondary school teachers, having the main goal to promote problem-solving skills and optimization algorithms to improve the teaching of mathematics. With half of the teachers in the classroom and the other half remotely connected on Teams, I exploited some of the exercises developed in our ROAR project. In particular, the first seminar was about solving two-variable optimization problems by using GeoGebra (PDF), whereas the second seminar introduced graph theory by means of social networks such as Facebook and Instagram, and presented classical optimization problems on networks, such as the Minimum Spanning Tree, the Shortest Path, and the Traveling Salesman problems (PDF).

EU TalentOn

Leiden, a city where it rains periodically all day; where an old large mill stands; where the canals and bridges are wonderful especially at night. A city that gave birth or hosted dozens and dozens of scientists and artists (including Lorentz, Huygens, Einstein, and Rembrandt), and that in the last week has also welcomed a hundred young researchers for EU TalentOn, as well as teenage students for EUCYS, both organized and funded by European Commission.

ODS2022

ODS2022 has already finished. It has been a really intense conference, full of interesting talks, discussions, and exchanges of ideas and experiences, as well as some nice social activities, such as the treasure hunt in the centre of Florence, organized by Viviamo in Positivo – Clownterapia.

Website online!

Welcome to my personal website. I am planning to use this section to communicate news and thoughts. I still have to fill and customize some pages, but I am going to do it very soon.

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publications


Holon Technologies: usage based insurance

Dusan Bikov, Raul Kangro, Harald Kitzmann, Petre Lameski, Alice Raffaele, and Zlatko Varbanov. "Holon Technologies: usage based insurance". European Study Group with Industry – ESGI 151, 2019.

Tactical Time Window Management in Attended Home Delivery

Jean-François Côté, Renata Mansini, and Alice Raffaele. "Tactical Time Window Management in Attended Home Delivery". CIRRELT Technical Report, 2019.

How to Organize an OR Workshop: the AIROYoung Experience

Rossana Cavagnini, Veronica Dal Sasso, Valentina Morandi, and Alice Raffaele. "How to Organize an OR Workshop: the AIROYoung Experience". SN Operations Research Forum, volume 1, page 34, 2020.

Women Just Wanna Have OR: Young Researchers Interview Expert Researchers

Lavinia Amorosi, Rossana Cavagnini, Veronica Dal Sasso, Martina Fischetti, Valentina Morandi, and Alice Raffaele. "Women Just Wanna Have OR: Young Researchers Interview Expert Researchers". SN Operations Research Forum, volume 2, page 2, 2021.

Becoming Visible: Why We Should be Better Communicators Now

Alice Raffaele. "Becoming Visible: Why We Should be Better Communicators Now". SN Operations Research Forum, volume 2, page 7, 2021.

Teaching Operations Research Before University: A Focus on Grades 9–12

Alice Raffaele and Alessandro Gobbi. "Teaching Operations Research Before University: A Focus on Grades 9–12". SN Operations Research Forum, volume 2, page 13, 2021.

Faster and Better Simple Temporal Problems

Dario Ostuni, Alice Raffaele, Romeo Rizzi, and Matteo Zavatteri. "Faster and Better Simple Temporal Problems". Proceedings of the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021.

From optimization to listing: theoretical advances in some enumeration problems

Alice Raffaele. "From optimization to listing: theoretical advances in some enumeration problems". Ph.D thesis, University of Trento, 2022.

An Operations Research–Based Teaching Unit for Grade 10: The ROAR Experience, Part I

Gabriella Colajanni, Alessandro Gobbi, Marinella Picchi, Alice Raffaele, and Eugenia Taranto. "An Operations Research–Based Teaching Unit for Grade 10: The ROAR Experience, Part I." INFORMS Transactions on Education. INFORMS, 2022.

Fostering students’ development of modelling and problem-solving skills through Operations Research and digital technologies in a collaborative environment

Eugenia Taranto, Gabriella Colajanni, Alessandro Gobbi, Marinella Picchi, and Alice Raffaele. "Fostering students’ development of modelling and problem-solving skills through Operations Research and digital technologies in a collaborative environment". International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology. Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2022.

An Interdisciplinary Experimental Evaluation on the Disjunctive Temporal Problem

Matteo Zavatteri, Alice Raffaele, Dario Ostuni, and Romeo Rizzi. "An Interdisciplinary Experimental Evaluation on the Disjunctive Temporal Problem". Constraints, 2023.

Reducing the Number of Disjuncts in DTPs

Alice Raffaele and Matteo Zavatteri. "Reducing the Number of Disjuncts in DTPs". Information and Computation, 2023.

An Operations Research–Based Teaching Unit for Grade 11: The ROAR Experience, Part II

Gabriella Colajanni, Alessandro Gobbi, Marinella Picchi, Alice Raffaele, and Eugenia Taranto. "An Operations Research–Based Teaching Unit for Grade 11: The ROAR Experience, Part II." INFORMS Transactions on Education. INFORMS, 2023.

A Two-Phase Approach to Evaluate and Optimize an Interlibrary Loan Service: The Case Study of Provincia di Brescia

Alice Raffaele, Matteo Zavatteri, Fabio Bazzoli, Marco Gussago, and Romeo Rizzi. "A Two-Phase Approach to Evaluate and Optimize an Interlibrary Loan Service: The Case Study of Provincia di Brescia". In: Cosmi, M., Peirano, L., Raffaele, A., Samà, M. (eds) Operations Research and Data Science in Public Services. AIROYoung 2022. AIRO Springer Series, vol 11 (2023).

Multi-period time window assignment for attended home delivery

Jean-François Côté, Renata Mansini, and Alice Raffaele. "Multi-period time window assignment for attended home delivery". European Journal of Operational Research, 2024.

Listing the bonds of a graph in Õ(n)-delay

Alice Raffaele, Romeo Rizzi, and Takeaki Uno. "Listing the bonds of a graph in Õ(n)-delay". Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2024, vol. 348, 105-121.

An Operations Research–Based Teaching Unit for Grade 12: The ROAR Experience, Part III

Gabriella Colajanni, Alessandro Gobbi, Marinella Picchi, Alice Raffaele, and Eugenia Taranto. "An Operations Research–Based Teaching Unit for Grade 12: The ROAR Experience, Part III." INFORMS Transactions on Education. INFORMS, 2024 (to appear).

New theoretical results on the Monotone Boolean Duality and the Monotone Boolean Dualization problems

Alice Raffaele and Romeo Rizzi. "New theoretical results on the Monotone Boolean Duality and the Monotone Boolean Dualization problems. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2025, vol. 361, 347-369.

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teaching

Teaching experience 1

Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014

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Teaching experience 2

Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015

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