Rafael Martí

Presentation

Rafa Martí is Professor in the Statistics and Operations Research department at the University of Valencia, Campus de Burjassot, Valencia, Spain. His teaching and research are devoted to Statistics, Mathematical Programming, and Heuristic Optimization. He is co-author of seven books, being the last one Discrete Diversity and Dispersion Maximization (Springer 2023), and has secured an american patent. Prof. Martí is currently Area Editor in the Journal of Heuristics and Associate Editor of the European Journal of Oper. Res., TOP-Transactions in Ops. Research, the Math. Prog. Computation, and the Int. Journal of Metaheuristics.

Prof. Martí has published almost 200 papers, and around 150 are in JCR-indexed journals (h-index=61 and i10-index=156 according to Google scholar). He has also contributed with around 100 presentations in conferences and universities, from which about half of them were invited. Martí is Senior Research Associate of OGA Consulting (Seville, Spain), and has been invited professor at the University of Colorado (USA), Molde (Norway), Wien (Austria), Bretagne-Sud (France), UCD (Dublin), and Panamá. The Web of Knowledge, compiles 144 of his papers and computes an h-index=34. (Download curriculum vitae).

Rafa Martí es Catedrático de Universidad en el Departamento de Estadística e Investigación Operativa de la Universitat de Valéncia, Campus de Burjassot (Valencia), España. Desarrolla su labor docente e investigadora en materias de Estadística, Programación Matemática, y Optimización Heurística. Es co-autor de 9 libros, siendo el último la monografía Discrete Diversity and Dispersion Maximization (Springer Nature, 2023), y tiene registrada una patente americana. El profesor Martí actualmente es editor de área de la revista Journal of Heuristics y editor asociado de las revistas TOP, European Journal of Oper. Res., Math. Prog. Computation e Int. Journal of Metaheuristics.

El Prof. Martí ha publicado alrededor de 200 artículos científicos, de los cuales alrededor de 150 se encuentran en revistas indexadas en el JCR (con índices h=61 e i10=156 según Google Scholar). Ha realizado alrededor de 100 presentaciones en congresos y universidades, de las cuales aproximadamente la mitad han sido invitadas. Martí es investigador asociado de la empresa OGA (Sevilla), y ha sido profesor invitado en las universidades de Colorado (USA), Molde (Noruega), Viena (Austria), Bretagne-Sud (Francia), UCD (Dublin) y Panamá.La Web of Knowledge le contabiliza 144 publicaciones y un índice-h=34. (Descargar curriculum vitae).

OGA

Data driven solutions

OGA is a company specialized in Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research that bases its value on the development of digital twins of critical business processes in sectors such as industrial, logistics or defense. OGA provides services to top companies such as Indra, Coca-Cola, Iberdrola, or Abengoa. OGA creates data-driven business solutions in critical processes such as production or logistics of all types of organizations.

The collaboration between Prof. Martí and OGA started in 2022 when he joined the Catedra board of technological experts to support their research. Since then, the collaboration has been extended with a contract (Feb. 2024) between the University of Valencia and OGA to directly participate in optimization projects.

SCOOP - OPTSICOM

Research project

Rafa Martí and Anna Martínez-Gavara coordinate the research project entitled Supply Chain Optimization (SCOOP). This is a joint project with Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC) and includes 20 researchers. In this project we develop algorithms, based on metaheuristic methods, which integrated in a software, solve hard optimization problems. It is funded by the Spanish Goverment with codes PID2021-125709OB (2022-2024) and PID2024-160226OB-C21 (2025-2027).

The collaboration between our group and the URJC team (GRAFO) started in 2006 when Profs. Martí and Duarte published a paper in the European Journal of Operational Research. Since then, both teams have published together almost 50 JCR-indexed papers and 25 book chapters, and their research has been presented in more than 50 international conferences. This collaboration has received remarkable evaluations on previous joint funded projects, such as: TIN2012-35632, TIN2015-65460 or PGC2018-095322.

In the OPTSICOM website, codes, instances and best known solutions for the problems in which we are working are available. You can directly download from here the LOLIB and MDPLIB 2.0.

2025 Publications

Latest journal papers

TOP - Special Issue on Metaheuristics
R. Martí, R. Ruiz. Springer (2025)

Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures with Path Relinking.
An analytical review of designs and implementations
Laguna, M., Martí, R., Martínez-Gavara, A., Pérez-Peló, S., Resende, M.
European Journal of Operational Research, (Invited review). Available online (2025)

GRASP with Evolutionary Path Relinking for the Conditional p-Dispersion Problem
Sánchez-Oro, J., A. Martínez-Gavara, A.D. López-Sánchez, R. Martí, A. Duarte
Applied Soft Computing 168, 112494 (2025)

Fifty Years of Metaheuritics
Martí, R., Sorensen, K., Sevaux, M.
European Journal of Operational Research 321 (Invited review), 345-362 (2025)

The Multiple Linear Ordering Problem
Benito-Marimón, M., Martí, R., Martínez-Gavara, A.
European Journal of Operational Research, In evaluation

The Stochastic Scatter Search Metaheuristic
Martínez-Gavara, A., Keenan, P., Pariente, A., Martí, R., and Juan, A.
JORS, In evaluation

Contact

Professional address

rafael.marti@uv.es
(34) 96.3543090
Dpto. de Estadística e I. O.
Facultad de Matemíticas
Dr. Moliner 50, 46100
Burjassot, Valencia, España

2019 Award

INFORMS Journal on Computing

Informs has awarded Rafael Martí and his co-authors, to honor their paper Scatter search and local NLP solvers, published in this journal in 2007, with the Test of Time Paper Award, for having been the most impactful over a prolonged period.

2021 2% Top Scientist

Standford Ranking of top researchers

The Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford University has published a rank with the top 2% most-cited scientists. It is calculated using Scopus citation data over 22 years, and ranks 150,000 scientists classified into 22 scientific fields. Prof. Martí, ranks in position 352 in the Operations Research field.

Research.com

The reference site for researchers

The world reference portal for research ranks scientist, journals and universities according to their profile, publications, and quality. Rafa Martí ranks 7th among the Spanish Mathematicians .

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