Rentsen Enkhbat is a Professor at the National University of Mongolia. He is also the head of the Mathematical department in the Institute of Mathematics and Digital Technology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D from the Irkutsk State University, Russia in 1990 and Sc.D. from the Mongolian Academy of Sciences in 2002. His research focuses on global optimization, game theory and optimal control.Altannar Chinchuluun is a faculty member of the Business School at the National University of Mongolia. He is also a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics and Digital Technology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D from the University of Florida in 2007. His research focuses on optimization, network design problems, data mining with biomedical applications and computational finance.Panos M. Pardalos is an Emeritus Professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1985. Additionally, he is the Paul and Heidi Brown Preeminent Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the Computer and Information Science Department, the Hellenic Studies Center, and the biomedical engineering program at the University of Florida. He is also the director of the Center for Applied Optimization at the University of Florida. He is a world leading expert in global and combinatorial optimization. His research interests include network design problems, optimization in telecommunications, e-commerce, data mining, biomedical applications, and massive computing.
