مؤلف: Jerzy A. Filar

Pouya Baniasadi is a doctoral student in mathematics at Flinders University, Australia. He is a recipient of the AF Pillow Applied Mathematics Scholarship from the AF Pillow Mathematics Trust, Australia. Vladimir Ejov is the leader of the Mathematical Analysis research group within Flinders Mathematical Sciences Laboratory, Flinders University, Australia. His research interests are in the areas of several complex variables, geometry of Cauchy-Riemann manifolds, combinatorial optimisation, Markov decision processes and graph theory. Jerzy A Filar is Director of Flinders Mathematical Sciences Laboratory, Flinders University, Australia, and is a Fellow of the Australian Mathematical Society. His research interests span both theoretical and applied topics in the fields of operations research, optimization, game theory, applied probability, and environmental modelling. Michael Haythorpe is mathematician at Flinders University, Australia. His areas of research interest are numerical optimisation, computational mathematics, algorithm development and graph theory. He is a recipient of the Aust MS Lift-off Fellowship Award 2010.