Alberto Caprara

7.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
110 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Alberto Caprara is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Alberto Caprara has authored 110 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 27 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 26 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Alberto Caprara's work include Optimization and Packing Problems (34 papers), Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (31 papers) and Advanced Graph Theory Research (19 papers). Alberto Caprara is often cited by papers focused on Optimization and Packing Problems (34 papers), Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (31 papers) and Advanced Graph Theory Research (19 papers). Alberto Caprara collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Spain and United Kingdom. Alberto Caprara's co-authors include Paolo Toth, Matteo Fischetti, Valentina Cacchiani, Michele Monaci, Ulrich Pferschy, Hans Kellerer, Pier Luigi Guida, David Pisinger, Daniele Vigo and Adam N. Letchford and has published in prestigious journals such as Bioinformatics, European Journal of Operational Research and IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.

In The Last Decade

Alberto Caprara

108 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

Modeling and Solving the Train Timetabling Problem 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 100 200 300 400
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Modeling and Solving the Train Timetabling Problem
    2002 423 citations Alberto Caprara, Matteo Fischetti et al. Operations Research profile →

Peers

Alberto Caprara
Jin‐Kao Hao France
Günther R. Raidl Austria
Stephen F. Smith United States
Egon Balas United States
Jan Karel Lenstra Netherlands
Manfred Padberg United States
Celso C. Ribeiro Brazil
El‐Ghazali Talbi France
Eugene L. Lawler United States
John J. Bartholdi United States
Jin‐Kao Hao France
Alberto Caprara
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Fields of papers citing papers by Alberto Caprara

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alberto Caprara

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alberto Caprara. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alberto Caprara based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alberto Caprara. Alberto Caprara is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cacchiani, Valentina, Alberto Caprara, & Paolo Toth. (2019). An Effective Peak Period Heuristic for Railway Rolling Stock Planning. Transportation Science. 22 indexed citations
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Cacchiani, Valentina, Alberto Caprara, & Paolo Toth. (2011). A Lagrangian heuristic for a train-unit assignment problem. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 161(12). 1707–1718. 44 indexed citations
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Cacchiani, Valentina, Alberto Caprara, & Paolo Toth. (2010). Solving a real-world train-unit assignment problem. Mathematical Programming. 124(1-2). 207–231. 76 indexed citations
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Caprara, Alberto, et al.. (2009). Recovery-Robust Platforming by Network Buffering. CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa). 1 indexed citations
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Cacchiani, Valentina, Alberto Caprara, & Matteo Fischetti. (2009). Robustness in Train Timetabling.. 171–174. 4 indexed citations
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Caprara, Alberto & Marco Locatelli. (2009). Global optimization problems and domain reduction strategies. Mathematical Programming. 125(1). 123–137. 31 indexed citations
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Caprara, Alberto, et al.. (2008). An Application of Network Design with Orientation Constraints.. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 16–21. 2 indexed citations
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Caprara, Alberto, Andrea Lodi, Silvano Martello, & Michele Monaci. (2006). Packing into the smallest square: Worst-case analysis of lower bounds. Discrete Optimization. 3(4). 317–326. 6 indexed citations
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Caprara, Alberto, Michele Monaci, Paolo Toth, & Pier Luigi Guida. (2005). A Lagrangian heuristic algorithm for a real-world train timetabling problem. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 154(5). 738–753. 171 indexed citations
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Caprara, Alberto, Robert D. Carr, Sorin Istrail, Giuseppe Lancia, & Brian P. Walenz. (2004). 1001 Optimal PDB Structure Alignments: Integer Programming Methods for Finding the Maximum Contact Map Overlap. Journal of Computational Biology. 11(1). 27–52. 88 indexed citations
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Caprara, Alberto, Alessandro Panconesi, & Roméo Rizzi. (2003). Packing cycles in undirected graphs. Journal of Algorithms. 48(1). 239–256. 34 indexed citations
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Althaus, Ernst, Alberto Caprara, Hans‐Peter Lenhof, & Knut Reinert. (2002). Multiple sequence alignment with arbitrary gap costs:Computing an optimal solution using polyhedral combinatorics. Bioinformatics. 18(suppl_2). S4–S16. 14 indexed citations
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Caprara, Alberto & Paolo Toth. (2001). Lower bounds and algorithms for the 2-dimensional vector packing problem. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 111(3). 231–262. 74 indexed citations
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Caprara, Alberto, Giuseppe Lancia, & See-Kiong Ng. (2001). Sorting Permutations by Reversals Through Branch-and-Price. INFORMS journal on computing. 13(3). 224–244. 15 indexed citations
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Caprara, Alberto, Hans Kellerer, Ulrich Pferschy, & David Pisinger. (2000). Approximation algorithms for knapsack problems with cardinality constraints. European Journal of Operational Research. 123(2). 333–345. 110 indexed citations
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Caprara, Alberto. (1999). Sorting Permutations by Reversals and Eulerian Cycle Decompositions. SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics. 12(1). 91–110. 126 indexed citations
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Caprara, Alberto, Matteo Fischetti, & Paolo Toth. (1999). A Heuristic Method for the Set Covering Problem. Operations Research. 47(5). 730–743. 284 indexed citations
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Caprara, Alberto, Matteo Fischetti, Paolo Toth, Daniele Vigo, & Pier Luigi Guida. (1997). Algorithms for railway crew management. Mathematical Programming. 79(1-3). 125–141. 150 indexed citations
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Caprara, Alberto, et al.. (1996). Odd cut-sets, odd cycles, and 0-1/2 Chvàtal-Gomory cuts.. 4 indexed citations
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Bjørndal, Mette, Alberto Caprara, Peter Cowling, et al.. (1995). Some thoughts on combinatorial optimisation. European Journal of Operational Research. 83(2). 253–270. 14 indexed citations

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