Autor: Dong Li

Anna Nagurney is the John F. Smith Memorial Professor in the Department of Operations and Information Management in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is also the Founding Director of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks and the Supernetworks Laboratory for Computation and Visualization at UMass Amherst. She is an Affiliated Faculty Member of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at UMass Amherst. She received her AB, Sc B, Sc M, and Ph D degrees from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She devotes her career to education and research that combines operations research / management science, engineering, and economics. Her focus is the applied and theoretical aspects of network systems, particularly in the areas of transportation and logistics, critical infrastructure, and in economics and finance. She is an INFORMS Fellow and author or co-author of over a dozen books, including a Springer Brief and ISOR Volume. Dong (Michelle) Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management and Marketing at the College of Business at Arkansas State University and a Center Associate at the Virtual Center for Supernetworks at the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst. She earned her B.S. in Industrial Engineering at Nankai University, China. Her research interests include operations research/management science, operations management, network optimization, variational inequalities, dynamical systems, game theory, multicriteria decision-making, quality competition in supply chain networks, pharmaceutical supply chains, sustainable systems, outsourcing, information asymmetry, and hazmat transportation.