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.

Panos M. Pardalos is a Distinguished Professor and the Paul and Heidi Brown Preeminent Professor in the Departments of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida, and a world renowned leader in Global Optimization, Mathematical Modeling, and Data Sciences. He is a Fellow of AAAS, AIMBE, and INFORMS and was awarded the 2013 Constantin Caratheodory Prize of the International Society of Global Optimization. In addition, Dr. Pardalos has been awarded the 2013 EURO Gold Medal prize bestowed by the Association for European Operational Research Societies. This medal is the preeminent European award given to Operations Research (OR) professionals for ”scientific contributions that stand the test of time.” Dr. Pardalos is also a Foreign Member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, the Royal Academy of Spain, and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is the Founding Editor of Optimization Letters, Energy Systems, and Co-Founder of the International Journal of Global Optimization. He has published over 500 papers, edited/authored over 200 books and organized over 80 conferences.

Industrial Logistics, ETS Institute, Lulea University of Technology, Norrbotten, Sweden