Optimization, Control, and Applications in the Information Age: In Honor of Panos M. Pardalos's 60th

Panos M. Pardalos: A Brief Biography (R. Bakker).- Modular Lipschitzian and Contractive Maps (V. Chistyakov).- A Taxonomy for the Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (D. Cinar, Y. Topcu, J. Oliveira).- Sensitivity analysis of welfare, equity, and acceptability level of transport policies (R. Connors, M. Patriksson, C. Rydergren, A. Sumalee, D. Watling).- Calibration in survey sampling as an optimization problem (G. Davies, J. Gillard, A. Zhigljavsky).- On the Sensitivity of Least Squares Data Fitting by Nonnegative Second Divided Differences (I. Demetriou).- Modeling and solving vehicle routing problems with many available vehicle types (S. Barman, P. Lindroth, A. Strömberg).- A Genetic Algorithm for Scheduling Alternative Tasks subject to Technical Failure (D. Fontes, J. Gonçalves).- Discrete competitive facility location: Modeling and optimization approaches (A. Karakitsiou).- On Nash Equilibria in Stochastic Positional Games with Average Payoffs (D. Lozovanu, S. Pickl).- Adaptive Tuning of All Parameters in a Multi-Swarm Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm. An Application to the Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem (Y. Marinakis, M. Marinaki, A. Migdalas).- Eigendecomposition of the Mean-Variance Portfolio Optimization Model (F. Mayambala, Elina Rönnberg, T. Larsson).- Three aspects of the research impact by a scientist: measurement methods and an empirical evaluation (B. Mirkin, M. Orlov).- SVM Classification of Uncertain Data Using Robust Multi-Kernel Methods (R. Pant, T. Trafalis).- Multi-objective Optimization and Multi-attribute Decision Making for a Novel Batch Scheduling Problem Based on Mould Capabilities (J. Pei, A. Migdalas, W. Fan,X. Liu).- A Time-Indexed Generalized Vehicle Routing Model and Stabilized Column Generation for Military Aircraft Mission Planning (N. Quttineh, T. Larsson, J. Van den Bergh, J. Beliën).- On Deterministic Diagonal Methods for Solving Global Optimization Problems with Lipschitz Gradients (Y. Sergeyev, D. Kvasov).- Optimization of Design Parameters for Active Control of Smart Piezoelectric Structures (G. Stavroulakis, G. Foutsitzi, C. Gogos).- Stable EEG Features (V. Stefanidis, G. Anogiannakis, A. Evangelou and M. Poulos).- Deriving Pandemic Disease Mitigation Strategies by Mining Social Contact Networks(M. Ventresca, A. Szatan, B. Say, D. Aleman).- On an Asymptotic Property of a Simplicial Statistical Model of Global Optimization (A. Zilinskas, G. Gimbutien ).- Advanced Statistical Tools for Modelling of Composition and Processing Parameters for Alloy Development(G. Zrazhevsky, A. Golodnikov, S.Uryasev, A. Zrazhevsky).