Handbook of Combinatorial Optimization

Panos Pardalos was born in Greece and graduated from Athens University (Department of Mathematics). He received his PhD (Computes and Information Sciences) from the University of Minnesota. He is a Distinguished Emeritus Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida, and an affiliated faculty of Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science  Information  Engineering departments.

Panos Pardalos is a world-renowned leader in Global Optimization, Mathematical Modeling, Energy Systems, Financial applications, and Data Sciences. He is a Fellow of AAAS, AAIA, AIMBE, EUROPT, and INFORMS and was awarded the 2013 Constantin Caratheodory Prize of the International Society of Global Optimization. In addition, Panos  Pardalos has been awarded the 2013 EURO Gold Medal prize bestowed by the Association for European Operational Research Societies.

  Ding-Zhu Du received his M.S. degree in 1982 from Chinese Academy of Sciences major in Operations Research, and his Ph.D. degree in 1985 from University of California, Santa Barbara, major in Mathematics. After 1985, he had been working in Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at Berkeley as a postdoctor, in MIT as an assistant professor, in Chinese Academy of Sciences as a research professor, in Princeton University as a visiting scholar,  in University of Minnesota as a Professor, and now in University of Texas at Dallas as a Professor of Computer Science. During 2002-2005, he was a program director at National Science Foundation of USA. He is interested in teaching and doing research in area of Design and Analysis of Approximation Algorithms  for Combinatorial Optimization Problems  raised from Various Computer System and Networks, such as Wireless Sensor Networks and Social Networks. He already published more than 250 journal papers and  about 10 authored books. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications”, and in addition, serves in editorial board of more than 15 journals. In 1998, he received CSTS Award from INFORMS.  In 1993, he received the second class National Nature Science Prize from China. In 1991, he received the first class Nature Science Prize from Chines Academy of Sciences.   My T. Thai is currently a University of Florida (UF) Research Foundation Professor in the Department of Computer & Information Sciences & Engineering and Associate Director of UF Nelms Institute for the Connected World. She is a Fellow of IEEE and AAIA.My T. Thai is a leading authority who has done transformative research in trustworthy machine learning and combinatorial optimization, especially forcomplex systems with applications to healthcare, social media, critical networking infrastructure, and cybersecurity. She has been working on various interdisciplinary topics, focusing on the underlying mathematical models, coupled with efficient computational techniques for dynamic, interdependent, and uncertainty systems.