Panos M. Pardalos

Professional Activities

Journals

Editor-in-Chief of the "Journal of Optimization Letters",Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.
Editor-in-Chief of the "Journal of Global Optimization", Springer.
Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of "Computational Management Science", Springer-Verlag.
Associate Editor of the "Journal of Combinatorial Optimization", Springer.
Associate Editor of the "Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications", Springer.
Associate Editor of the "Journal of Concrete and Applicable Mathematics", Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Associate Editor of the Journal "Optimization and Engineering", Springer.
Associate Editor of the Journal "Optimization Methods and Software", Taylor & Francis Group.
Associate Editor of the Journal "Computational Optimization and Applications", Springer.
Associate Editor of the Journal "Informatica", Institute of Mathematics and Informatics.
Associate Editor of the Journal "Environmental Modelling and Assessment", Springer.
Associate Editor of the Journal "Computational Statistics and Data Analysis", Elsevier Science.
Associate Editor of the Journal "Computer Science and Information Systems", ComSIS Consortium.
Member of the Editorial Board of the "International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management."
Member of the Editorial Board of the Electronic Journal "Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science."
Member of the Editorial Board of the "Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization (JIMO)", American Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
Member of the Editorial Board of the " International Journal of Operational Research (IJOR)", by Inderscience Publishers.
Member of the Editorial Board of the " International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE)", by Inderscience Publishers.
Member of the Editorial Council of the Journal "Kibernetika i Sistemnyi Analiz (Cybernetics and Systems Analysis)", Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Member of the Editorial Board of "Operational Research: An International Journal" (Hellenic Operational Research Society).
Member of the Editorial Board of "Journal of Financial Decision Making" (published by Klidarithmos, Greece).
Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal "Decisions in Economics and Finance", Springer-Verlag.
Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal "Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making", Springer.
Member of the Advisory Board of the "OR Transactions."

Book Series

Book Series Editor, "Springer Optimization and its Applications," Springer.
Book Series Editor, "Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications," Springer.
Book Series Editor, "Applied Optimization," Springer.
Book Series Editor, "Massive Computing," Springer.
Book Series Editor, "Combinatorial Optimization," Springer.
Book Series Editor, "Applied Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science," Science Press.
Book Series Editor, "Cooperative Systems," Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Book Series Editor, "Biocomputing," Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Book Series Editor, "Computers and Operations Research," World Scientific Publishing Co.
Book Series - Member of the Editorial Board, "New Dimensions in Networks," Edward Elgar Publishing.

Conference Organizer

Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the Workshop on ``Complexity Issues for Numerical Optimization'' (with S. Vavasis), Cornell Univ. (March 1991).
Chairman and Conference Organizer for the Conference on ``Recent Advances on Global Optimization'' (with C. Floudas), Princeton Univ. (May 1991).
Chairman and Conference Organizer for the Conference on ``Large Scale Optimization'' (with W. Hager & D. Hearn), University of Florida (February 1993).
Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the Workshop on ``The Quadratic Assignment Problem'' (with H. Wolkowicz), Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), (May 1993).
Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the Workshop on ``Parallel Processing of Discrete Optimization Problems'' (with M. Resende and K. G. Ramakrishnan), Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), (April 1994).
Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the Workshop on ``Global Minimization of Nonconvex Energy Functions: Molecular Conformation and Protein Folding'' (with D. Shalloway and G. Xue), Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), (March 1995).
Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the Conference on ``State of the Art in Global Optimization: Computational Methods and Applications'' (with C.A. Floudas), Princeton University, (April 1995).
Chairman and Conference Organizer for the Conference on ``Network Optimization'' (with W. Hager & D. Hearn), University of Florida (February 1996).
Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the Workshop on ``Satisfiability Problems: Theory and Applications'' (with DingZhu Du and Jun Gu), Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), (March 1996).
Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the Workshop on ``Semidefinite Programming and Interior-Point Approaches for Combinatorial Optimization Problems'' (with H. Wolkowicz), FIELDS Institute (May 15-17, 1996).
Chairman and Conference Organizer for the Conference on ``Optimal control: theory, algorithms, and applications'' (with W. Hager), University of Florida (February 1997).
Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the Workshop on ``Network Design: Connectivity and Facilities Location'' (with DingZhu Du), Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), April 28-30, Princeton, March 1997).
Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the Workshop on ``Parallel Processing of Discrete Problems'' Institute for Mathematics, Minneapolis MN (May 12-16, 1997).
Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the Workshop on ``Randomization Methods in Algorithm Design'' (with Sanguthevar Rajasekaran and Jose Rolim), Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), Dec. 12-14, 1997 - Princeton University).
Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the Workshop on ``Multichannel Optical Networks: Theory and Practice'' (with DingZhu Du and Peng-Jun Wan), Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), March 16-19, 1998 - DIMACS Center).
Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the ``Workshop on Randomized Parallel Computing'' (with Sanguthevar Rajasekaran), 12th IEEE International Parallel Processing Symposium (April 3, 1998, Orlando Florida).
Chairman and Organizer for the conference on ``Combinatorial and Global Optimization'', May 25-29, 1998, Chania, Crete, Greece.
Chairman for the ``International Symposium on Operations Research and its Applications (ISORA'98)'' (with X. Zhang, D.-Z. Du, and G. Yu), Kunming, China, August 20-22, 1998.
Chairman and Conference Organizer for the conference on ``Approximation and Complexity in Numerical Optimization: Continuous and Discrete Problems'' February 28 - March 2, 1999, Center for Applied Optimization, University of Florida.
Chairman and Conference Organizer for the conference on ``Optimization in Computational Chemistry and Molecular Biology: Local and Global Approaches'' (with C. Floudas) (Princeton University, May 7-9, 1999).
Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the Workshop on ``Mobile Networks and Computing'' (with Badri R. Badrinath, Frank Hsu and Sanguthevar Rajasekaran), Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), March 25-27, 1999 - DIMACS Center).
Conference Organizer for the ``Workshop on Global Optimization (GO.99)'' (with Marco Locatelli, Reiner Horst, and Fabio Schoen), Firenze, Italy ( Sep 28 - Oct 2, 1999 http://www.dsi.unifi.it/go.99)
Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the Workshop on ``Discrete Mathematical Problems with Medical Applications'' (with Ding-Zhu Du and Jie Wang),
Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), Dec. 8-10, 1999 - DIMACS Center).
Chairman and Organizer for the conference on ``Stochastic Optimization: Algorithms and Applications'' (with S. Uryasev), February 20-22, 2000, Center for Applied Optimization, University of Florida.
Chairman and Organizer for the conference on ``Recent advances in non-differentiable optimization'' (with N. Shor) May, 15-18 Kyiv, Ukraine (Joint initiative of the V.M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and University of Florida).
Chairman and Organizer for the conference on ``Advances in Convexity and Global Optimization'' (with N. Hadjisavas), June 5-9, 2000 - Pythagorion, Samos, Greece.
Chairman and Organizer for the workshop on ``Cooperative Control and Optimization '' (with R. Murphey), Dec 3 - 5, 2000, Center for Applied Optimization, University of Florida.
Chairman and Organizer for the ``International Conference on Biocomputing'' (with J. Principe and S. Rajasekaran), February 25-27, 2001, Center for Applied Optimization, University of Florida.
Chairman and Organizer} for the workshop on ``Novel Approaches to Hard Discrete Optimization'' (with Kurt Anstreicher, Franz Rendl, Tony Vannelli, and Henry Wolkowicz), April 26-28, 2001, Fields Institute.
Chairman and Organizer for the conference on ``Optimization and Industry'' (with V. Korotkich), July 1-6, 2001, Great Keppel Island, Queensland, Australia.
Chairman and Organizer for the workshop on "Cooperative Control and Optimization" (with R. Murphey and S. Butenko), Nov. 12-14, 2001, Center for Applied Optimization, University of Florida. Url: http://www.ise.ufl.edu/cao/cco2001
Chairman and Organizer for the workshop on "Supply Chain and E-commerce" (with J. Geunes et al.), Feb 26 - Mar 1, 2002, Center for Applied Optimization, University of Florida.
Chairman and Organizer for the "International Conference on Financial Engineering, E-commerce, Suppy Chain, and Strategies of Development (FEES2001)," June 10-12, 2002, Athens.
Chairman and Organizer for the "International Conference on Optimization and Optimal Control," August 13-17, 2002, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the workshop on "Cooperative Control and Optimization" (with R. Murphey and S. Butenko), Dec. 4-6, 2002, Center for Applied Optimization, University of Florida.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the conference on ``Quantitative Neurosciences: Models, Algorithms, Diagnostics, and Therapeutic Applications," February 5-7, 2003. University of Florida.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the conference on ``Supply Chain Optimization'', February 27 - March 1, 2003. University of Florida.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the workshop on ``Computational Management Science, Economics, Finance, and Engineering," March 28-30, 2003. Limassol, Cyprus.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the ``World Congress on Optimization and Economics of Sports," May 14 - 16, 2003. Barcelona, Spain.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the ``International Conference on Computational Management Science'', May 27-30, 2003. Almyrida Beach, Chania, Crete, Greece.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the ``4-th International Conference on Frontiers in Global Optimization'', June 8-12, 2003. Santorini, Greece.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the conference on ``Cooperative Control and Optimization'', November 19-21, 2003. Destin, Florida, USA.
Chairman and Organizer for the conference on ``Data Mining Techniques in Biomedicine'', February 16-18, 2004. University of Florida.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the conference on ``Multiscale Optimization Methods and Applications'', February 26-28, 2004. University of Florida.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the conference on ``3rd Annual Supply Chain Optimization Conference'', February 28 - March 1, 2004. University of Florida.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the conference on ``Computational Management Science Conference and Workshop on Computational Econometrics and Statistics'', April 2-5, 2004. Neuchatel, Switzerland.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the conference on ``Robust Optimization-Directed Design'', April 19-21, 2004. University of Florida's Graduate and Research Center at Shalimar, Florida, USA.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the conference on ``High Performance Algorithms and Software for Nonlinear Optimization'', June 18-20, 2004. Island of Ischia, Italy.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the conference on ``Cooperative Control and Optimization'', January 20-22, 2005. University of Florida.
Chairman and Organizer for the conference ``Systems Analysis, Data Mining and Optimization in Biomedicine'', February 2-4, 2005. University of Florida.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the conference ``4rd Annual Supply Chain Optimization Conference'', February 25 - 27, 2005. Cocoa Beach, Florida.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the conference ``International Conference on Computational Management Science'', March 31 - April 3, 2005. University of Florida.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the ``International Workshop Multilevel Optimization : Algorithms and Applications'', May 15 - 17, 2005. Chania, Crete, Greece.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the ``International Workshop on Metaheuristics for Large Scale Optimization'', May 19-21, 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the ``International Conference on Control and Optimization with Industrial Applications'', May 22-25, 2005, Baku, Azerbaijan.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the ``International Workshop on Optimization in Medicine'', July 20-22, 2005. Coimbra, Portugal.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the ``International Workshop on Global Optimization'', September 18-22, 2005. AlmerÃ Spain.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the 6th conference on ``Cooperative Control and Optimization'', February 1-3, 2006, University of Florida.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the conference ``5th Annual Supply Chain Optimization Conference'', February 25 - 26, 2006, University of Florida.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the conference ``Data Mining, Systems Analysis and Optimization in Neuroscience'', February 15-17, 2006, University of Florida.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the DIMACS Workshop on ``Clustering Problems in Biological Networks'', May 9 - 11, 2006. DIMACS Center, Rutgers University.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the International Conference on ``Dynamics of Disasters'', October 5-7, 2006, Athens, Greece.
Chairman and Co-Organizer for the Workshop on ``Data Mining and Mathematical Programming'', October 10-13, 2006. Centre de recherches mathématiques.

Conference Committees and Advisory Boards

Cluster Chairman of ``Decision and Support Systems'' (ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Nashville, May 12-15, 1991)
Cluster Chairman of ``Global Optimization'' (ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, Oct. 31- Nov.3, 1993).
Cluster Chairman of ``Global Optimization'' (ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Boston, April 24 -27, 1994),
Member of the International Advisory Committee for the 15th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (University of Michigan, Aug. 15-19, 1994).
Member of the Program Committee for the 3th Workshop on Global Optimization (Szeged, Hungary, Dec. 10-14, 1995).
Cluster Chairman of ``Global Optimization'' (INFORMS Joint National Meeting, Atlanta, Nov. 3-6 , 1996),
Member of the International Advisory Committee for the 16th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (Lausanne, Aug. 24-29, 1997).
Member of the Advisory Committee of the DIMACS Workshop on ``Network Switching'' (July 7-9, 1998 - Princeton).
Member of the International Organizing Committee of the ``NATO Advanced Research on Workshop Large Scale Computations in Air Pollution Modelling (ENVIR.ARW 971731)'', Sofia, Bulgaria (July 6-10 1998).
Program Committee Member of ICCI'96 Conference.
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the ``DIMACS Special Year 1996-1997 on Networks''.
Member of the Program Committee of the Workshop ``Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems in Parallel'' (April 5, 1997 - Geneva, Switzerland).
Cluster Chairman of ``Global Optimization'' (INFORMS Joint National Meeting, Montreal, April 26-29, 1998).
Cluster Chairman of ``Global Optimization'' (INFORMS Joint National Meeting, Seattle, Oct. 25-28, 1998).
Member of the International Program Committee of the conference ``Third International Conference on DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (DCCN'99), Theory and Applications'' (November 9 - 13, 1999, Tel-Aviv, Israel).
Member of the Program Committee of the conference ``NP-completeness and Parallelism'' (JIM'99, I.U.T. de Metz, France - May 17-19, 1999)
Member of the Program Committee of the ``12th International Conference on Optimization Methods and Their Applications'' (Baikal, July-August 2001)
Member of the Program Committee of the ``International Conference on Production System Design, Supply Chain Management and Logistics (Miedzyzdroje, Poland, October 23-25, 2002).
Member of the International Advisory Committee of the ``ICM -2002 (Control and Optimization)'', Xian, China, Aug. 30 - Sept. 1, 2002).
Member of the Program Committee of the conference on ``Mathematical Methods for Learning: Advances in data mining and knowledge discovery'', June 21-24 2004, Villa Geno, Como, Italy .
Member of the Program Committee of the ``The First International Conference on Algorithmic Applications in Management'' , June 22-25, 2005, Xian, Shaanxi, China.
Member of the Program Committee of the ``13th Baikal International Conference on Optimization Methods and Their Applications'', Irkutsk-Severobaikalsk, Russia, July 2-8, 2005.
Member of the Program Committee of the ``3rd world conference on Computational Statistics & Data Analysis'', Limassol, Cyprus, 28-31 October, 2005.
Member of the Program Committee of the ``18th EURO Mini-Conference on the theme Variable Neighbourhood Search'', Teneriffe, Spain, 23 to 25 November 2005.

Award Committees and Societies

Permanent member of DIMACS (NSF Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science).
Member of the 1998 ``INFORMS/CSTS Prize'' Committee.
Member of ACM, SIAM, Mathematical Programming Society, AMS, INFORMS, New York Academy of Sciences.
Member of the Farkas Prize Committee (INFORMS).

Administrative Service

Departmental committees: Graduate committee, Committee for Sustained Performance Evaluation, Faculty and Chairman search committees
College committees: Graduate Council, University Senate, College Personnel Board (Tenure & Promotion Committee), College PEP Selection Committee, UFRFP award committee, Commencement Marshal, International Affairs Committee, BME Chairman Search Commitee, Faculty Recognition and Awards Committee, Participating Faculty of the Center for Greek Studies.

Last Update: 15-Mar-2007. Ashwin