MICHAEL RUZHANSKY is a professor at the Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London. He has published over 100 research articles in several leading international journals. He has also published five books and memoirs and nine edited volumes. He has researched topics related to pseudo-differential operators, harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. More recently, he has worked on boundary value problems and their applications. He has been on the editorial board of many respected international journals and served as the President of the International Society of Analysis, Applications, and Computations (ISAAC) in the period 2009-2013. YEOL JE CHO is a professor at the Department of Mathematics Education, Gyeongsang National University, Korea, and Fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology. He has published over 350 research papers in respected international journals, mainly in the field of fixed point theory, variational inequality problems, equilibrium problems, optimization problems, stability of functional equations and inequality theory. He has been on the editorial boards of several leading journals, such as Fixed Point Theory and Applications, Journal of Nonlinear Science and Applications and 15 more international journal of mathematics and applications. He has also published a number of remarkable books on fixed point theory, stability of functional equations, numerical analysis and degree theory. PRAVEEN AGGARWAL is a professor at the Department of Mathematics, Anand International College of Engineering, Jaipur, India. He has published over 130 articles related to special functions and fractional calculus in leading mathematics journals, such as Applied Mathematics and Computation, the Journal of Nonlinear Science and Applications, and the Journal of Inequalities and Applications. Recently, he has focused on partial differential equations and fractional differential equations. He has been on the editorial boards of several journals, including SpringerPlus and the Maejo International Journal of Science and Technology. He has been involved in a number of conferences and has also won numerous international research grants such as Research in Group by International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) and World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Visiting Scientist fellowship. IVÁN AREA is a professor at the Departamento de Matemática Aplicada II, E.E. Aeronáutica e do Espazo Universidade de Vigo, Spain. He has published over 100 articles related to orthogonal polynomials and special functions in leading international journals. His recent research has also focused on fractional analysis and bioinformatics. He has been elected General Secretary of the International Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics (CIMPA), a non-profit organization whose aim is to promote mathematics in developing countries.
