Open Problems in Optimization and Data Analysis

Chapter 1- Social Influence-based Optimization Problems.- Chapter 2- New Statistical Robust Estimators, Open Problems.- Chapter 3- Optimal Location Problems for Electric Vehicles Charging Stations: Models and Challenges.- Chapter 4- Supply and Demand Selection Problems in Supply Chain Planning.- Chapter 5- Open problems in green supply chain modelingband optimization with carbon emission targets.- Chapter 6- Variants and Formulations of the Vehicle Routing Problem.- Chapter 7- New MIP model for Multiprocessor Scheduling Problem with Communication Delays.- Chapter 8- On Optimization Problems in Urban Transport.- Chapter 9- Some aspects of the Stackelberg Leader/Follower Model.- Chapter 10- Open research areas in distance geometry.- Chapter 11- A Circle Packing Problem and its Connection to Malfatti's Problem.- Chapter 12- Review of basic local searches for solving the Minimum sum-of-squares clustering problem.- Chapter 13- On the Design of Metaheuristics-based Algorithm Portfolios.- Chapter 14- Integral Simplex Methods for the Set Partitioning Problem: Globalization and Anti-Cycling.- Chapter 15- Open problems on Benders Decomposition Algorithm.- Chapter 16- An Example of Nondecomposition in Data Fitting by Piecewise Monotonic Divided Differences of Order Higher than Two.