V.B. Melas, St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Mathematics & Mechanics, vbmelas@post.ru Stefania Mignani, University of Bologna, Professor of Statistics, stefania.mignani@unibo.it Paola Monari, University of Bologna, Professor of Statistics, paola.monari@unibo.it Luigi Salmaso, University of Padova, Professor of Statistics, salmaso@gest.unipd.it

• Queueing Systems with Unreliable Servers in a Random Environment.- Sequential Combining of Expert Information using Mathematica.- Markov-Modulated Samples and Their Applications.- Simulating correlated ordinal and discrete variables.- Probabilistic counterparts for strongly coupled parabolic systems.- Algorithms for Linear Stochastic Delay Differential Equations.- Combined tests for comparing mutabilities of two populations.- Development of an Extensive Forensic Handwriting Database.- Bayes factors and maximum entropy distribution with application to Bayesian tests.- Carlo Algorithm for Simulation of the Vehicular Traffic Flow.- Importance Sampling for multi-constraints rare event probability.- Generating and comparing multivariate ordinal variables by means of permutation tests.- A method for selection of the optimal bandwidth parameter for Beran’s nonparametric Estimator.- Simulating from a family of generalized Archimedean copulas.- PS-algorithms and stochastic computations.- Laws of Large Numbers for Random Variables.- D-optimal saturated designs: a simulation study.- Nonparametric testing of saturated D-optimal designs.- Timely Indices for Residential Construction Sector.- Measures of dependence for infinite variance distributions.- Design of Experiments using R.- The Influence of the Dependency Structure in Combination-Based Multivariate Permutation.- Potential advantages and disadvantages of stratification in methods of randomization.- Additive level outliers in multivariate GARCH models.- A comparison of efficient permutation tests for unbalanced ANOVA in two by two designs.- Likelihood-free Simulation-based Optimal Design: an Introduction.- Time change related to a delayed reflection.- Et tu “Brute Force”? No! A Statistically-Based Approach to Catastrophe Modeling.- Optimizing Local Estimates of the Monte Carlo Method for Problems.- Computer Experiment Designs via Particle Swarm Optimization.- Application of Nonparametric Goodness-of-Fit Testsfor Composite Hypotheses.- Simulating from the copula that generates the maximal probability.- Optimization via Information Geometry.- Combined nonparametric tests for the social sciences.- The use of the scalar Monte Carlo estimators for the optimization of the corresponding vector weight algorithms.- Additive cost modelling in clinical trial.- Mathematical problems of statistical simulation of the polarized radiation transfer.- Using a Generalized D2-Distribution for Constructing Exact D-Optimal Designs.- Sample size in approximate sequential designs under several violations of prerequisites.- Numerical stochastic models of meteorological processes and fields.- Comparison of Resampling Techniques for the Non-Causality Hypothesis.- A review of Multilevel Modeling: some methodological issues and advances.- On a Generalization of the Modified Gravity Model.- Bivariate Lorenz Curves based on the Sarmanov-Lee Distribution.- Models with Cross-Effect of Survival Functions in the Analysis of Patients with Multiple Myeloma.- Monte Carlo method for partial differential equations.- The calculation of effective electro-physical parameters for a multiscale isotropic medium.- An Approximate Solution of the Travelling Salesman Problem Based on the Metropolis Simulation with Annealing.- The Supertrack Approach as a Classical Monte Carlo Scheme.- The dependence of the ergodicity on the time effect in the repeated measures ANOVA.- Mixture of extended linear mixed-effects models for clustering of longitudinal data.- The study of the Laplace transform of Marshall-Olkin multivariate exponential distribution.