Optimization, Control, and Applications in the Information Age: In Honor of Panos M. Pardalos’s 60th Birthday (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics Book 130)

Recent developments in theory, algorithms, and applications in optimization and control are discussed in this proceedings, based on selected talks from the 'Optimization, Control, and Applications in the Information Age' conference, organized in honor of Panos Pardalos's 60th birthday. This volume contains numerous applications to optimal decision making in energy production and fuel management, data mining, logistics, supply chain management, market network analysis, risk analysis, and community network analysis. In addition, a short biography is included describing Dr. Pardalos's path from a shepherd village on the high mountains of Thessaly to academic success. Due to the wide range of topics such as global optimization, combinatorial optimization, game theory, stochastics and programming contained in this publication, scientists, researchers, and students in optimization, operations research, analytics, mathematics and computer science will be interested in this volume 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