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

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Modular Lipschitzian and Contractive Maps....Pages 1-15
A Taxonomy for the Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem....Pages 17-37
Sensitivity Analysis of Welfare, Equity, and Acceptability Level of Transport Policies....Pages 39-65
Calibration in Survey Sampling as an Optimization Problem....Pages 67-89
On the Sensitivity of Least Squares Data Fitting by Nonnegative Second Divided Differences....Pages 91-112
Modeling and Solving Vehicle Routing Problems with Many Available Vehicle Types....Pages 113-138
A Genetic Algorithm for Scheduling Alternative Tasks Subject to Technical Failure....Pages 139-152
Discrete Competitive Facility Location: Modeling and Optimization Approaches....Pages 153-169
On Nash Equilibria in Stochastic Positional Games with Average Payoffs....Pages 171-186
Adaptive Tunning of All Parameters in a Multi-Swarm Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm: An Application to the Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem....Pages 187-207
Eigendecomposition of the Mean-Variance Portfolio Optimization Model....Pages 209-232
Three Aspects of the Research Impact by a Scientist: Measurement Methods and an Empirical Evaluation....Pages 233-259
SVM Classification of Uncertain Data Using Robust Multi-Kernel Methods....Pages 261-273
Multi-Objective Optimization and Multi-Attribute Decision Making for a Novel Batch Scheduling Problem Based on Mould Capabilities....Pages 275-297
A Time-Indexed Generalized Vehicle Routing Model and Stabilized Column Generation for Military Aircraft Mission Planning....Pages 299-314
On Deterministic Diagonal Methods for Solving Global Optimization Problems with Lipschitz Gradients....Pages 315-334
Optimization of Design Parameters for Active Control of Smart Piezoelectric Structures....Pages 335-348
Stable EEG Features....Pages 349-357
Deriving Pandemic Disease Mitigation Strategies by Mining Social Contact Networks....Pages 359-381
On an Asymptotic Property of a Simplicial Statistical Model of Global Optimization....Pages 383-391
Advanced Statistical Tools for Modelling of Composition and Processing Parameters for Alloy Development....Pages 393-413