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About theSpecial IssueEditors FrankWerner, Apl. Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil., studiedMathematics from1975–1980 andgraduated fromtheTechnicalUniversityMagdeburgwithhonors.HedefendedhisPh.D. thesisonthesolution of special schedulingproblems in1984with”summacumlaude”andhishabilitation thesis in1989. In 1992, he received a grant from theAlexander-von-Humboldt Foundation. He currentlyworks as an extraordinary professor at the Faculty ofMathematics of the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg (Germany). He is aneditor of onemonographandanauthorof three further books, as well as ofmore than 250 publications in international journals. He is on the Editorial Board of 14 journals, andinparticular isanAssociateEditorof the International Journal ofProductionResearchand the Journal ofScheduling. Hewasamemberof theProgramCommitteeofmore than50 international conferences. His research interests are Operations Research, Combinatorial Optimization and Scheduling. LarysaBurtseva,Dr., graduated fromtheRostovStateUniversity (Russia) inEconomicCybernetics (1975)anddefendedherPh.D. thesisonControl inTechnicalSystems(TechnicalCybernetics,1989)at theRadioelectronicsUniversityofKharkov (Ukraine). Since2000shehasworkedasa fullprofessor at the Engineering Institute of The Universidad Auto´noma de Baja California, Mexicali, Mexico. Shehas led theLaboratoryof ScientificComputation since 2005. Shehasmore than70publications in international journals and conference proceedings, as well as six book chapters. Her research interests areDiscreteOptimization, particularlyCombinatorialOptimization, Scheduling, and also packingproblems fordifferent applications. She is amemberof theNational SystemofResearchers of theNational Council for Science and Technology ofMexico (SNI CONACYT) and is a regular memberofTheMexicanAcademyofComputation(AMEXCOMP). YuriN. Sotskov, Prof. D. Sc., finished secondary schoolwith a goldmedal in 1966 andgraduated fromtheFacultyofAppliedMathematicsof theBelarusianStateUniversityinMinskin1971. In1980, he defended his Ph.D. thesis at the Institute ofMathematics of theNational Academy of Sciences of Belarus. In 1991, he defended his D.Sc. thesis at the Institute of Cybernetics of the National AcademyofSciencesofUkraine.HehasthetitleofProfessor inApplicationofMathematicalModels andMethods in Scientific Research (Russian Academy of Sciences, 1994). He currently works as a principal researcher at theUnited Institute of Informatics Problems of theNational Academy of SciencesofBelarus. Hehasmore than350publications: five scientificmonographs, two text books, more than 150 papers in international journals, books, and conference proceedings in English on applied mathematics, operations research, and scheduling. He is on the Editorial Board of four journals. He has been a supervisor of eight Ph.D. students (defended). In 1998, he received the NationalPrizeofBelarus inScienceandEngineering. vii