apl. Prof. (i.R.) Dr. rer. nat. habil. Frank Werner

Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

Institute of Mathematical Optimization


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  • Research stay at the Polytechnical Institute Minsk / Belarus (1987)

  • Stay at the Banach centre Warsaw / Poland (1987)

  • Research stays at the University of Osnabrück / Germany (1992, 1993)

  • Teaching stay at the University of Uppsala / Sweden (1994)

  • Short-term research stays (up to 2 weeks) e.g. at:
    - University of Wisconsin Stevens Point / USA   (picture: with the rented car in front of the Budgetel Inn in Chicago / October 1995)
    - Ball State University Muncie / USA  (picture with Jeet Gupta from Muncie near Wernigerode / May 1995)
    - University of Southampton / UK
    - Poznan University of Technology / Polen
    - TU Wroclaw / Polen
    - Institute for Engineering Cybernetics Minsk / Belarus
    - Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne / France (picture in the vicinity of Saint Etienne on November 24, 2012)
    - University Joseph Fourier Grenoble / France
    - CICESE Research Center Ensenada / Mexico (picture at 'La Bufadora' near Ensenada on September 24, 2016)
    - Autonomous University of Baja California Mexicali / Mexico (Certificate of talk)

  • Organization (jointly with H. Bräsel) of the Second Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling Problems (MAPSP), Wernigerode / Germany, May 1995 (picture from the First Workshop MAPSP 1993 at Villa Vigoni in Menaggio / Italy)

  • Editor-in-Chief of the journal Algorithms (since 6 Sep 2019;  (journal impact factor 2022: 2.3; Elsevier CiteScore factor 2022: 3.7)   (certificate).

  • Associate Editor of the journal International Journal of Production Research for the area 'Scheduling and Discrete Optimization' (since 2012;   journal impact factor 2022: 9.2; Elsevier CiteScore factor 2022: 18.1; WoS: Q1 in the areas 'Engineering, Industrial', 'Engineering, Manufacturing' and 'Operations Research & Management Science');
    - Associate Editor of the journal Operations Research and Decisions for the area 'Operations Research and Scheduling' (since 2014);
    - Associate Editor of the journal Journal of Scheduling (seit 2014;   journal impact factor 2022: 2.0 ; Elsevier CiteScore factor 2022: 3.7);
    - Associate Editor of the journal Algorithms (20 Mar 2019 - 6 Sep 2019;   journal impact factor 2022: 2,3; Elsevier CiteScore factor 2022: 3.7)   (Certificate);
    - Associate Editor der Zeitschrift Frontier in Applied Mathematics and Statistics for 'Optimization' (since 2022).

  • Member of the Editorial Board of the journal International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (area: Operations Research; since 2009)   (Certificate);
    - Member of the Advisory Board of the journal International Journal of Operational Research / Nepal (since 2011);
    - Member of the Editorial Board of the journal International Journal of Fuzzy System Applications (since 2012);
    - Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Journal of Applied Mathematics (2012 - 2023)   (Certificate);
    - Member of the Editorial Board of the journal World Journal of Methodology (2012 - 2021);
    - Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization (areas: Scheduling, Discrete Optimization, Operations Research; since 2013;   journal impact factor 2022: 1.3; Elsevier CiteScore factor 2022: 2.1);
    - Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Operations Research Perspectives (seit 2013;   journal impact factor 2021: 3.382; Elsevier CiteScore factor 2022: 7.0; Author information pack);
    - Member of the Editorial Board of the journal International Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics (2016 - 2023);
    - Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Research in Applied Mathematics (since 2016);
    - Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Advances in Systems Science and Applications (since 2017);
    - Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Algorithms (2018 - 20 March 2019;   journal impact factor 2022: 2.3; Elsevier CiteScore factor 2022: 3.7)   (Certificate);
    - Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Mathematics (since 2018;   journal impact factor 2022: 2.4; Elsevier CiteScore factor 2022: 3.5; WoS: Q1 in area Mathematics)   (Certificate)   (Certificate Section Board Member);
    - Member of the Advisory Board of the journal Sci (since 2018)   (Certificate);
    - Member of the Associate Editorial Committee of the journal Current Trends in Computer Sciences & Applications (since 2018);
    - Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Economics, Modelling, and Forecasting (since 2021);
    - Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Computational and Cognitive Engineering (since 2022);
    - Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Computational Mathematics and Computer Modelling with Applications (since 2022);
    - Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Journal of Applied Research on Industrial Engineering (since 2023);
    - Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Journal of Operational and Strategic Analytics (since 2023);
    - Member of the Advisory Board of Preprints.org (since 2023);
    - Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Journal of Artificial Intelligence & Cloud Computing (seit 2023);
    - Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Green Manufacturing Open (since 2023)   (Certificate).

  • Guest editor (jointly with H. Bräsel) of the Special Issue in Annals of Operations Research: Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling Problems; Vol. 83, 1998, 289 p.;
    - Guest editor (jointly with G. Finke and V. Strusevich) of the Part Special Issue in Computers & Operations Research: Scheduling for Modern Manufacturing, Logistics and Supply Chains; Vol. 36, No. 2, 2009, 116 p.;
    - Guest editor (jointly with A. Lazarev) of a Special Issue in Avtomatika i Telemekhanika on the occasion of the 70th birthday of V.S. Tanaev, No. 10, 2010, 173 p.; (English translation in Automation and Remote Control; Vol. 71, No. 10, 2010, 149 p.)
    - Guest editor (jointly with A. Lazarev and V. Tkindt) of a Special Issue in Computers & Operations Research: Scheduling in Manufacturing Systems; Vol. 39, No. 6, 2012, 110 p.
    - Guest editor (jointly with D. Briskorn and E. Pesch) of a Special Issue in International Journal of Production Research: New Developments in Scheduling and Manufacturing; Vol. 52. No. 13, 2014, 348 p.
    - Guest editor (jointly with L. Burtseva and Y. Sotskov) of a Special Issue in Algorithms: Algorithms for Scheduling Problems; mdpi, 2018, 197 p.   (Certificate)
    - Guest editor (jointly with A. Allahverdi, E. Pesch and M. Pinedo) of a Special Issue in International Journal of Production Research: Scheduling in Manufacturing Systems: New Trends and Perspectives, Vol. 19, 2018, 235 p.
    - Guest editor of a Special Issue in Mathematics: Discrete Optimization: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications; mdpi, 2019, 233 p.   (Certificate)
    - Guest editor of a Special Issue in Mathematics: Graph-Theoretic Problems and Their New Applications; mdpi, 2019   (Certificate).
    - Guest editor of a Special Issue in Mathematics: Advances and Novel Approaches in Discrete Optimization; mdpi, 2019   (Certificate).
    - Guest editor (jointly with L. Burtseva and Y. Sotskov) of a Special Issue in Algorithms: Exact and Heuristic Scheduling Algorithms; mdpi, 2019   (Certificate).
    - Editor of a Special Issue in Algorithms: 2020 Selected Papers from Algorithms's Editorial Board Members, mdpi, 2020/21   (Certificate).
    - Guest editor of a Special Issue in Mathematics: Mathematical Methods for Operations Research Problems; mdpi, 2021   (Certificate).
    - Editor of a Special Issue in Algorithms: 2021 Selected Papers from Algorithms's Editorial Board Members, mdpi, 2021   (Certificate).
    - Editor of a Special Issue in Algorithms: Scheduling: Algorithms and Applications, mdpi, 2021/22/23   (Certificate).
    - Guest editor eines Special Issue in Mathematics: Optimization Algorithms: Theory and Applications, mdpi, 2022/23   (Certificate).
    - Guest Editor (jointly with A. Lazarev and B. Lin) of a Special Issue in Mathematics: Recent Advances in Discrete Optimization and Scheduling, mdpi, 2022/23   (Certificate).
    - Editor (joinly with Y. Sotskov und A. Tchernykh) of a Special Issue in Algorithms: Optimization Techniques, Algorithms, and Applications for Cloud and Edge/Fog Computing Environments, mdpi, 2022/23   (Certificate).
    - Editor of a Special Issue in Algorithms: 2022 and 2023 Selected Papers from Algorithms's Editorial Board Members, mdpi, 2022/23   (Certificate).
    - Guest editor (jointly with M. Shokouhifar and J.L. Calvo-Rolle) of a Special Issue in Bioengineering: Artificial Intelligence and Optimization Methods in Biomedical Engineering; mdpi, 2023   (Certificate).
    - Guest editor (jointly with M. Shokouhifar, L. Abualigah and S. Mirjalili) of a Special Issue in Mathematics: Optimization with Engineering Applications: Heuristics, Meta-heuristics and Hyper-heuristics; mdpi, 2023   (Certificate).
    - Guest editor (jointly with D. Rossit) of a Special Issue in Mathematics: Mathematical Methods and Operations Research in Planning, Scheduling and Supply Chain Operations Management, mdpi, 2023   (Certificate).

  • Referee for more than 40 journals, e.g. Management Science, INFORMS Journal on Computing, European Journal of Operational Research, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Annals of Operations Research, IEE Transactions on Scheduling and Logistics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Computers & Operations Research, ZOR - Methods and Models of Operations Research, OR Letters, Journal of Scheduling, International Transactions in Operational Research, Parallel Processing Letters, Journal of Heuristics, Production Planning and Control, Omega, Optimization, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, International Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, RAIRO Operations Research

  • Member of the program committee (or technical or organization) committee of several conferences (151):
    - 2nd International Conference Parallel Computing Systems, Ensenada / Mexico, August 16 - 20, 1999;
    - 16th Conference CARS & FOF 2000, Port of Spain / Trinidad and Tobago, 2000;
    - Workshop on Discrete Optimization Methods in Production and Logistics, Omsk / Russia, July 20 - 27, 2004;
    - IMECS 2006 and The IAENG International Workshop on Operations Research (IWOR'06), Hong Kong / China, June 20 - 22, 2006 (call for papers);
    - IMECS 2007 and The 2007 IAENG International Conference on Operations Research (ICOR'07) Hong Kong / China, March 21 - 23, 2007 (call for papers);
    - IMECS 2008 and The 2008 IAENG International Conference on Operations Research (ICOR'08), Hong Kong / China, March 19 - 21, 2008 (call for papers);
    - IMECS 2009 and The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Operations Research (ICOR'09), Hong Kong / China, March 18 - 20, 2009 (call for papers);
    - IMECS 2010 and The 2010 IAENG International Conference on Operations Research (ICOR'10), Hong Kong / China, March 17 - 19, 2010 (call for papers);
    - IFAC Conference on Management and Control of Production and Logistics (MCPL 2010), Coimbra / Portugal, September 8 - 10, 2010 (call for papers);
    - IMECS 2011 and The 2011 IAENG International Conference on Operations Research (ICOR'11), Hong Kong / China, March 16 - 18, 2011 (call for papers);
    - IMECS 2012 and The 2012 IAENG International Conference on Operations Research (ICOR'12), Hong Kong / China, March 14 - 16, 2012 (call for papers);
    - 14th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing (INCOM 2012), Bucharest / Romania, May 23 - 25, 2012 (call for papers);
    - 2nd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2012), Rome / Italy, July 28 - 31, 2012 (call for papers);
    - IMECS 2013 and The 2013 IAENG International Conference on Operations Research (ICOR'13), Hong Kong / China, March 13 - 15, 2013 (call for papers);
    - IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control (MIM'2013), Saint Petersburg / Russia, June 19 - 21, 2013 (call for papers);
    - 3rd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2013), Reykjavik / Iceland, July 29 - 31, 2013 (call for papers);
    - 6th International Conference on Management and Control of Production and Logistics (MCPL 2013), Fortaleza / Brazil, September 12 - 14, 2013 (call for papers);
    - The Fifth International Conference on Advances in System Simulation (SIMUL 2013), Venice / Italy, October 27 - November 1, 2013 (call for papers);
    - IMECS 2014 and The 2014 IAENG International Conference on Operations Research (ICOR'14), Hong Kong / China, March 12 - 14, 2014 (call for papers);
    - 4rd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2014), Vienna / Austria, September 2 - 4, 2014 (call for papers);
    - The Sixth International Conference on Advances in System Simulation (SIMUL 2014), Nice / France, October 12 - October 16, 2014 (call for papers);
    - IMECS 2015 and The 2015 IAENG International Conference on Operations Research (ICOR'15), Hong Kong / China, March 18 - 20, 2015 (call for papers);
    - 15th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing (INCOM 2015), Ottawa / Canada, May 11 - 13, 2015 (call for papers);
    - 5th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2015), Colmar, Elsass / Frankreich, July 21 - 23, 2015 (call for papers);
    - The Seventh International Conference on Advances in System Simulation (SIMUL 2015), Barcelona / Spain, November 15 - November 20, 2015 (call for papers);
    - 2nd International Conference on Information Science and Security (ICISS 2015), Seoul / Korea, December 14 - 16, 2015 (call for papers);
    - 2015 International Conference on Advanced Technology in Materials Science and Engineering, Phuket / Thailand, December 20 - 21, 2015, (call for papers);
    - 7th International Conference on Information Science and Applications (ICISA2016), Ho Chi Minh / Vietnam, February 15 - 18, 2016 (call for papers);
    - 7th IFAC Conference on Management and Control of Production and Logistics (MCPL 2016), Bremen / Germany, February 22 - 24, 2016 (call for papers);
    - IMECS 2016 and The 2016 IAENG International Conference on Operations Research (ICOR'16), Hong Kong / China, March 16 - 18, 2016 (call for papers);
    - International Conference of Applications to Nonlinear Sciences, May 26 - 29, 2016, Kathmandu / Nepal (AMNS-2016);
    - 8th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control (MIM'2016), Troyes / France, June 28 - 30, 2016 (call for papers) (flyer).
    - 6th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2016), Lisbon / Portugal, July 29 - 31, 2016 (call for papers);
    - The Eighth International Conference on Advances in System Simulation (SIMUL 2016), Rome / Italy, August 21 - 25, 2016 (call for papers);
    - The International Conference on Mechanical Design and Control Engineering (MDCE2016), Wuhan / China, November 19 - 20, 2016 (call for papers);
    - 3rd International Conference on Information Science and Security (ICISS 2016), Pattaya / Thailand, December 19 - 22, 2016 (call for papers);
    - IMECS 2017 and The 2017 IAENG International Conference on Operations Research (ICOR'17), Hong Kong / China, March 15 - 17, 2017 (call for papers);
    - Fourth International Conference on Control, Decision, and Information Technologies (CoDIT'17), Barcelona / Spanien, April 5 - 7, 2017 (call for papers);
    - 7th International Conference on Circuit, System and Simulation (ICCSS 2017), London / UK, July 14 - 17, 2017 (At the conference);
    - 7th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2017), Madrid / Spain, July 29 - 31, 2017 (call for papers)    (Certificate);
    - The XIV International Multidisciplinary Modelling and Simulation Multiconference (I3M 2017), Barcelona / Spanien, September 18 - 20, 2017 (call for papers);
    - 7th International Conference on IT convergence and Security (ICITCS 2017), Seoul / Republic Korea, September 25 - 28, 2017 (call for papers);
    - The Ninth International Conference on Advances in System Simulation (SIMUL 2017), Athens / Greece, October 8 - 12, 2017 (call for papers);
    - International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Systems Management (IESM'2017), Saarbrücken / Germany, October 11 - 13, 2017 (call for papers);
    - 1st International Symposium on Mechanical Design, Manufacture and Automation (ISMDMA 2017), Dubai / UAE, November 24 - 26, 2017 (call for papers) (Program Chair)   (flyer);   (Certificate of Appreciation)
    - IMECS 2018 and The 2018 IAENG International Conference on Operations Research (ICOR'18), Hong Kong / China, March 14 - 16, 2018 (call for papers);
    - Fifth International Conference on Control, Decision, and Information Technologies (CoDIT'18), Thessaloniki / Greece, April 10 - 13, 2018 (call for papers);
    - 16th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing (INCOM 2018), Bergamo / Italy, June 11 - 13, 2018 (call for papers);
    - 2018 International Conference on Physics, Mathematics, Statistics, Modelling and Simulation (PMSMS 2018), Wuzhen /China, June 29 - 30, 2018 (call for papers);
    - International Symposium on Cloud Computing and Services for High Performance Computing Systems (interCloud-HPC 2018), Orleans / France, July 16 - 20, 2018 (call for papers);
    - 8th International Conference on Circuit, System and Simulation (ICCSS 2018), Guangzhou / China, July 14 - 16, 2018 (call for papers);
    - 8th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2018), Porto / Portugal, July 29 - 31, 2018 (call for papers)    (Certificate);
    - IX International Conference 'Optimization and Applications (OPTIMA-2018), Petrovac / Montenegro, October 1 - 5, 2018 (call for papers);
    - The Tenth International Conference on Advances in System Simulation (SIMUL 2018), Nizza / Frankreich, October 14 - 18, 2087 (call for papers);
    - International Scientific and Practical Internet Conference 'Modelling and Information Technologies in Science, Engineering and Education', Kharkiv / Ukraine, November 21 - 22, 2018 (call for papers);
    - 2nd International Symposium on Mechanical Design, Manufacture and Automation (ISMDMA 2018), Dubai / UAE, November 20 - 22, 2018 (call for papers) (Program Chair)
    - 8th International Conference on IT Convergence and Security (ICITCS 2018), Bangkok / Thailand, December 17 - 20, 2018 (call for papers);
    - IMECS 2019 and The 2019 IAENG International Conference on Operations Research (ICOR'19), Hong Kong / China, March 13 - 15, 2019 (call for papers);
    - The First International Conference on Advances in Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence (ASPAI'2019), Barcelona / Spain, March 20 - 22, 2019 (call for papers);
    - International Conference on Information Science and Applications (ICISA 2019), Thailand, June 17 - 20, 2019 (call for papers);
    - 3rd International Conference on Circuit, System and Simulation (ICCSS 2019), Nanjing / China, June 13 - 15, 2019 (call for papers);
    - 9th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2019), Prague / Czech Republic, July 29 - 31, 2019 (call for papers)  (certificate);
    - 25th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (EURO-PAR 2019); Göttingen / Germany, August 26 - 30, 2019 (call for papers)  (Topic 3: Scheduling and Load Balancing);
    - 9th IFAC/IEEE/IIE/IFIP/IFORS Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control (MIM'2019), Berlin / Germany, August 28 - 30, 2019 (call for papers);
    - X International Conference 'Optimization and Applications' (OPTIMA-2019), Petrovac / Montenegro, September 30 - October 4, 2019 (call for papers);
    - The Eleventh International Conference on Advances in System Simulation (SIMUL 2019), Valencia / Spain, November 24 - 28, 2019 (call for papers);
    - 2020 International Joint Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (JCASE 2020), Athens / Greece, January 13 - 15, 2020 (call for papers)   (certificate);
    - 2020 International Symposium on Mechanical Design, Manufacture and Automation (ISMDMA 2020), Nagoya / Japan, March 23 - 25, 2020 (call for papers) (Program Chair);
    - 2020 International Conference on Automation and Logistics (ICAL2020), Beijing / China, March 22 - 24, 2020 (Call for papers);
    - 2nd International Conference on Advances in Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence (ASPAI'2020), Berlin / Germany, April 1 - 3, 2020 (call for papers);
    - 10th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2020), Lieusant - Paris / France, July 8 - 10, 2020 (call for papers)    (certificate);
    - International Conference on Production Research Americas, Bahia Blanca / Argentina, July 8 - 10, 2020 (call for papers);
    - XI International Conference 'Optimization and Applications' (OPTIMA-2020), Petrovac / Montenegro, September 28 - October 2, 2020 (call for papers);
    - The Twelfth International Conference on Advances in System Simulation (SIMUL 2020), Porto / Portugal, October 18 - 22, 2020 (call for papers);
    - 2020 2nd International Conference on Mechanical, Aerospace and Automotive Engineering, Beijing / China, October 16 - 18, 2020 (call for papers) ;
    - IMECS 2020 and The 2020 IAENG International Conference on Operations Research (ICOR'20), Hongkong / China, October 21 - 23, 2020;
    - 2020 International Symposium on Automation, Mechanical and Design Engineering (SAMDE 2020), Beijing, China, December 26 - 28, 2020 (call for papers);
    - 2021 International Joint Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (JCASE 2021), Shenzhen / China, January 13 - 15, 2021 (call for papers);
    - 7th World Congress and Expo on Oil, Gas, and Petrolium Engineering (WCOGP-2021), Dubai /UAE, February 15 - 16, 2021 (call for papers);
    - 6th Global Congress amd Expo on Applied Science and Engineering, Lisbon / Portugal, April 22 - 23, 2021 (call for papers);
    - 4th International Conference on Circuit, System and Simulation (ICCSS 2021), Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia, May 26 - 28, 2021 (call for papers);
    - 17th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing (INCOM 2021), Budapest / Hungary, June 7 - 9, 2021 (call for papers);
    - 11th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2021, Online, July 7 - 9, 2021 (call for papers) (Program Co-Chair)    (Certificate);
    - 6th International Conference on Intelligent, Interactive Systems and Applications, Shanghai / China, July 9 - 11, 2021;
    - Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS 2021), Nantes / France, September 5 - 9, 2021 (call for papers);
    - 1st Online Conference on Algorithms, MDPI, September 27 - October 10, 2021 (Chair); (call for papers)
    - XII International Conference 'Optimization and Applications' (OPTIMA-2021), Petrovac / Montenegro, September 27 - October 1, 2021 (call for papers);
    - The Thirteenth International Conference on Advances in System Simulation (SIMUL 2021), Barcelone / Spain, October 3 - 7, 2021 (call for papers);
    - IMECS 2021 and The 2021 IAENG International Conference on Operations Research (ICOR'21), Hong Kong / China, October 20 - 22, 2021;
    - 2021 International Conference on Mechanical, Aerospace and Automative Engineering (CMAAE 2021), Changsa / China, December 3 - 5, 2021;
    - 2021 International Symposium on Automation, Mechanical and Design Engineering (SAMDE 2021), Beijing / China, December 3 - 5, 2021 (call for papers);
    - 5th International Conference on Circuit, System and Simulation (ICCSS 2022), Chengdu / China, May 13 - 15, 2022 (call for papers) (Program Co-Chair) (Program)   (Certificate);
    - 10th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control (MIM'2022), Nantes / France, June 22 - 24, 2022 (call for papers);
    - 12th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2022), Lisbon / Portugal, July 14 - 16, 2022 (call for papers) (Program Co-Chair)   (Certificate 1)   (Certificate 2);
    - 11th International Conference on Pure and Applied Mathematics (ICPAM 2022), Bratislava / Slovakia, July 20 - 22, 2022 (call for papers);
    - XIII International Conference 'Optimization and Applications' (OPTIMA-2022), Petrovac / Montenegro, September 26 - 30, 2022 (call for papers);
    - The Fourteenth International Conference on Advances in System Simulation (SIMUL 2022), Lisbon / Portugal, October 16 - 20, 2022 (call for papers);
    - 2022 International Joint Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (JCASE 2022), Chengdu / China, October 14 - 16, 2022; (call for papers);
    - 4th Intrnational Conference on Advances in Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence (ASPAI'2022), Corfu / Greece, October 19 - 21, 2022 (call for papers);
    - 2022 International Conference on Mechanical and Electronics Engineering (ICMEE2022), Xi'an / China, October 21 - 23, 2022 (call for papers);
    - 2022 International Conference on Electronics, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science (EMECS 2022), Xiamen / China, October 21 - 23, 2022 (call for papers);
    - Global Meet on Applied Science, Engineering and Technology (GMASET2022), Barcelona / Spain, November 3 - 5, 2022 (Call for Papers);
    - 2nd International Meet on Renewable and Sustainable Energy (RENEWABLEMEET2023), Rome / Italy, March 13 - 15, 2023 (call for papers);
    - 2022 International Symposium on Automation, Mechanical and Design Engineering (SAMDE 2022), Beijing / China, December 16 - 18, 2022 (call for papers);
    - 2022 International Conference on Mechanical, Automation and Electrical Engineering (CMAEE 2022), Chengdu / China, December 16 - 18, 2022 (Call for Papers);
    - 2nd Global Summit on Applied Science, Engineering and Technology (GMASET2023), Rome / Italy, March 23 - 25, 2023 (call for papers);
    - The 1st Online Intenational Conference on Mathematics and Applications (IOCMA 2023), MDPI, May 1 - 15, 2023 ( call for papers);
    - 6th International Conference on Circuit, System and Simulation (ICCSS 2023), Suzhou / China, May 19 - 21, 2023 (call for papers) (Program Co-Chair);
    - 6th International Conference on Consumer Electronics and Devices (ICCED 2023), Suzhou / China, May 19 - 21, 2023 (call for papers) (Program Co-Chair)   (Zertifikat);
    - Global Expert Meetings on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering (GEMCIVIL2023), Paris / France, June 12 - 14, 2023 (call for papers);
    - IMECS 2023 and The 2023 IAENG International Conference on Operations Research (ICOR'23), Hong Kong / China, July 5 - 7, 2023;
    - 13th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2023), Rome / Italy, July 12 - 14, 2023 (call for papers) (Program Co-Chair)   (Certificate 1)   (Certificate 2)   (Bild: In front of the conference hotel Mercure Roma West);
    - 2023 International Conference on Business Analytics for Operations Excellence & Resilience (BAOER 2023), Singapore, July 15 - 17, 2023 (Call for Papers);
    - 12th International Conference on Pure and Applied Mathematics (ICPAM 2023), Porto / Portugal, July 20 - 22, 2023 (call for papers);
    - 2nd Global Summit and Expo on Sustainable and Renewable (GSESRE 2023), London / UK, August 28 - 30, 2023 (Call for Papers);
    - 2023 5th International Conference on Advances in Materials, Mechanical and Manufacturing (AMMM 2023), Osaka / Japan, September 1-3, 2023 (Call for Papers)    (Certificate);
    - 3rd Global Summit and Expo on Biomaterials and Applications (GSBA 2023), Lisbon / Portugal, September 18 - 20, 2023 (Call for Papers);
    - XIV International Conference 'Optimization and Applications' (OPTIMA-2023), Petrovac / Montenegro, September 18 - 22, 2023 (call for papers);
    - 5th International Conference on Applied Science, Engineering, and Technology (ISTRASET-2023), Rome / Italy October 20-21, 2023 (call for papers);
    - 2023 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Intelligent Computers, Algorithms, and Applications (IC 2023), Sanya / China, December 4 - 6, 2023 (call for papers) (General Co-Chair);
    - The Fifteenth International Conference on Advances in System Simulation (SIMUL 2023), Valencia / Spain, November 13 - 17, 2023 (call for papers);
    - 2nd International Meet on Renewable and Sustainable Energy (RENEWABLEMEET2024), Lisbon / Portugal, March 11 - 13, 2024 (call for papers);
    - 2nd Global Experts Meet on Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering (GECCE-2024), Rom, Italien, March 21 - 23, 2024 (call for papers);
    - Global Conference on Applied Science, Engineering and Technology (GCASET2024), Munich / Germany, May 27 - 29, 2024 (call for papers);
    - 7th International Conference on Circuit, System and Simulation (ICCSS 2024), Serdang / Malaysia, May 17 - 19, 2024 (call for papers) (Program Co-Chair);   (Flyer)
    - 6th International Conference on Informatics Engineering & Information Science (ICIEIS 2024), Shenzhen / China, May 17-19, 2024 (call for papers);
    - 7th International Conference on Consumer Electronics and Devices (ICCED 2024), Serdang / Malaysia, May 17 - 19, 2024 (call for papers) (Program Co-Chair)     (Flyer) ;
    - Global Summit on Renewable Energy (GSREN-2024), Venice / Italy, June 5 - 7, 2024 (call for papers);
    - Global Conference on Renewable and Sustainable Energy, Rome / Italy, June 13 - 15, 2024 (call for papers);
    - 2nd International Conference on Computer Technology and Information Science (CTIS 2024), Ordos / China, June 21 - 23 (call for papers);
    - 2nd Global Experts Conference on Renewable and Sustainable Energy, Paris / France, June 27 - 29, 2024 (call for papers);
    - 2024 International Conference on Advanced Robotics, Automation Engineering and Machine Learning (ARAEML2024), Hangzhou / China, June 28 - 30, 2024 (call for papers);
    - 14th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2024), Dijon / France, July 10 - 12, 2024 (call for papers) (Program Co-Chair);
    - 2024 Asia Conference on Electrical and Power Engineering (ACEPE 2024), Suzhou / China, July 19 - 21, 2024 (call for papers) (Publication Chair);
    - 2024 3rd International Conference on Simulation Modeling, Electronic Information Science and Technology (SMEI 2024), Nanjing / China, August 2 - 4, 2024 (call for papers) (Conference General Chair);
    - Global Summit and Expo on Renewable and Sustainable Energies (GSERSE2024), Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia, August 19 - 21, 2024 (call for papers);
    - 2nd International Summit on Non-renewable and Renewable Energy, Valencia / Spain, August 24 - 26, 2024 (call for papers);
    - Global Research Conference on Applied Science, Engineering and Technology (GRCASET2024), Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia, August 26 - 28, 2024 (call for papers);
    - 5th International Conference on Advances in Materials, Mechanical and Manufacturing (AMMM 2024), Tokyo / Japan, September 6 - 8, 2024 (call for papers);
    - Global Summit on Renewable Energy (GSREN-2024), Venice / Italy, September 16 - 18, 2024 (call for papers);
    - 3rd International Meet on Applied Science, Engineering and Technology (ASETMEET2024), Dubai / UAE, September 16 - 18, 2024 (call for papers);
    - XV International Conference 'Optimization and Applications' (OPTIMA-2024), Petrovac / Montenegro, September 16 - 20, 2024 (call for papers);
    - The Sixtenth International Conference on Advances in System Simulation (SIMUL 2024), Venedig / Italien, September 29 - October 3, 2024 (call for papers);
    - World Summit and Expo on Applied Science and Engineering (WSEASE-2024), Bern / Switzerland, October 17 - 19, 2024 (call for papers);
    - World Summit and Expo on Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Applications (WSERAA-2024), Bern / Switzerland October 17-19, 2024 (call for papers);
    - Global Conference on Renewable and Sustainable Energy (GCRSE-24), Dubai / UAE, November 7 - 9, 2024;
    - 2024 International Conference on Aerospace Engineering and Control Technologies (CAECT2024), Hongkong, November 14 - 17, 2024 (call for papers);
    - World Forum & Expo on Power and Energy Engineering (POWERFORUM2025), Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia, March 10 - 12, 2025 (call for papers);
    - Euro Global Conference on Renewable and Sustainable Energy (EGCRSE2025), Berlin / Germany, March 13 - 15, 2025 (call for papers);
    - International Connect on Renewable and Sustainable Energy (RENEWABLEMEET2025), Paris / France, March 24 - 26, 2025 (call for papers).
      

  • Organizer of sessions or tracks at several conferences, e.g.:
    - 9th Meeting of the Production and Operations Management Society, Santa Fe / USA (1998);
    - 15th International Conference on CAD/CAM, Robotics and Factories of the Future CARS & FOF, Aguas de Lindoia / Brazil (1999)   (picture: Breakfast in the hotel in Maringa in the Itatiaia national park);
    - joint organization (with Prof. Finke / Grenoble and Prof. Strusevich / London) of a track 'Scheduling for Modern Manufacturing, Logistics and Supply Chains' of several sessions at the 12th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing, 17 - 19 May 2006, St. Etienne / France (call for papers)   (picture: Town hall in St. Etienne)
    - joint organization (with Prof. Lazarev / Moscow and Prof. T'Kindt / Tours) of a track 'Scheduling in Manufacturing Systems' of several sessions at the 13th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing, 3 - 5 June 2009, Moscow / Russia (call for papers)   (picture: Red Square in Moscow)
    - EURO XXIV, 11 - 14 July 2010, Lisbon / Portugal   (picture: Paco palace with triumphal arch and Rua Augusta in Lisbon)
    - joint organization (with Prof. Briskorn / Siegen and Prof. Pesch / Siegen) of a track 'New Developments in Scheduling and Manufacturing' at the 14th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing, 22 - 26 May 2012, Bucharest / Romania (call for papers)   (picture: Atheneum in Bucharest)
    - joint organization (with Prof. Lazarev / Moscow) of a session at the IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control, June 19 - 21, 2013, St. Petersburg / Russia (call for papers)   (picture: Isaaks Cathedral in St. Petersburg)
    - joint organization (with Prof. Levner / Ashkelon) of a session (Scheduling models and new applications) at the 28th European Conference on Operational Research, July 3 - 6, 2016, Poznan / Poland (Slides of the talk; Slides of second talk as co-author);
    - Organization of a stream 'Scheduling in Job Shops, Flow Shops and Healthcare' at the 21st IFORS Conference, July 17 - 21, 2017, Quebec City / Canada (call for papers);
    - joint organisation (with Prof. Olga Battaia / Toulouse and Prof. Alexander Lazarev / Moscow) of a track 'Planning and Scheduling of Manufacturing Processes' at the 9th IFAC/IEEE/IIE/IFIP/IFORS Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control (MIM 2019), August 28 - 30, 2019, Berlin / Germany (call for papers)   (17 accepted papers);
    - Organization of a stream 'Scheduling in Job Shops, Flow Shops and Healthcare' at the 22nd IFORS Conference, June 21 - 26, 2020, Seoul / Korea (call for papers).

  • Presentation of plenary talks:
    - 13th International Conference on Project Management and Scheduling (PMS 2012), April 1 - 4, 2012, Leuven / Belgien; Title: Scheduling under Uncertainty (Slides of plenary talk)   (picture: Town hall in Leuven);
    - 2017 International Conference on Circuit, System and Simulation (ICCSS 2017), London / UK, July 14 - 17, 2017; Title: Material Handling Tools for a Discrete Manufacturing System: A Comparison of Optimization and Simulation (here)   (Slides of plenary talk)   (flyer)   (Conference Abstract)   (Certificate)   (picture: During the conference at the University of Greenwich).

  • Presentation of invited talks at several conferences, e.g.:
    - Workshop on Parallel Processing Lessach / Österreich (1995)   (picture: On the summit 'Kreuzhöhe' at an altitude of 2566 m near Lessach / September 1995)
    - INFORMS Meetings Washington D.C. / USA (1996), Cincinnati / USA (1999) and Salt Lake City / USA (2000);
    - 8th Meeting of the Production and Operations Management Society, Miami / USA (1997);
    - 4th Conference of the Asian-Pacific Operational Research Societies, Melbourne / Australia (1997);
    - workshop seminars
         'Scheduling in Computer and Manufacturing Systems', IBFI Dagstuhl / Germany (1995, 1999, 2002, 2004),
         'Scheduling Algorithms for new Emerging Applications', CIRM, Marseille-Luminy / Frankreich
         (May 29 - June 2, 2006),
         'New Challenges in Scheduling Theory', Centre CNRS 'La Villa Clythia', Frejus / Frankreich
         (September 12 - 17, 2010) (Slides)   (picture: On the Cote d'Azur east of Nice) as well as
         'New Trends in Scheduling Theory, Centre CNRS "Paul-Langevin", Aussois, France, March 31 - April 4, 2014)
         (Slides);
    - EURO XXIV, Lisbon / Portugal (2010);   (picture: Monument of discoveries in the suburb Belem of Lisbon).

  • Presentation of further talks including chairing a session, e.g.
    - 12th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing (17 - 19 May 2006, St. Etienne / France);
    - EURO XXI (2 - 5 July 2006, Reykjavik / Iceland) (Slides);
    - ECCO XX (24 - 26 May 2007, Limassol / Cyprus)   (picture with Valery Gordon / Minsk at the beach of Polis in the nordwest of Cyprus); - EURO XXII (8 - 11 July 2007, Prague / Czech Republic);
    - 13th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing (3 - 5 June 2009, Moscow / Russia);
    - 1st International Conference on Simulation and Modelling Techniques, Technologies and Applications SIMULTECH 2011 (29 - 31 July 2011, Noordwijkerhout / Netherlands) (Slides)   (picture: In the centre of Noordwijk on the North Sea);
    - 14th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing (23 - 25 May 2012, Bucharest / Romania)
    (picture: During a stop-off in Vienna / Austria on the flight to Bucharest - here at St. Charles's Church);
    - 2nd International Conference on Simulation and Modelling Techniques, Technologies and Applications SIMULTECH 2012 (28 - 31 July 2012, Rome / Italy) (Slides)   (picture: Colosseum in Rome) and
    - IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control MIM'2013 (19 - 21 June 2013, St. Petersburg / Russia)   (picture: Winter palace with Eremitage museum in St. Petersburg)

  • Member in the 'Technical Committee on Manufacturing Modelling for Management and Control (TC 5.2) (since March 2015; from July 2020: 'Management and Control in Manufacturing and Logistics')

  • Reviewer for American Mathematical Society (1987 - 2021; 219 reviews) and Zentralblatt MATH (2006 - 2021; 66 reviews)

  • Book Reviews for European Journal of Operational Research, Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Optimization and Optima

  • Lecturer for
    - Administration and Business Academy Magdeburg (2003 - 2015)   (picture: Dismissal of alumni in 2008;
    picture: Dismissal of alumni in 2009 - each in Hotel Ratswaage in Magdeburg)
    - Business School Magdeburg (iMBA, since 2012, and MBA, since 2020)   (picture: At the iMBA Farewell Party 2017 in Festung Mark;
    picture: At the MBA Summer party 2019 at the Viehbörse)

  • Consulting for enterprises (e.g. Bayer AG)

  • Member of the LiSA team (Development of the program package 'A Library of Scheduling Algorithms', 2004 - 2020)

  • Referee for Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (since 2011);
    Evaluator of research projects for Research Council Romania (since 2011);
    Evaluator of research projects for New Eurasia Foundation Russia (since 2013);
    Evaluator of research projects for Russian Science Foundation (since 2013)
    Expert Reviewer of research projects for European Science Foundation (ESF; since 2018)

  • Involvement in foreign Ph.D. committees:
    - Sergey Kovalev (23 November 2012; Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines St. Etienne / France; Title of the thesis: Problemes combinatoires en configuration des lignes de fabrication: analyse de complexite et optimisation; member of the committee)
    - Vladimir Korotkov (20 February 2015; University of Turku / Finland; Title of the thesis: Stability Analysis in Multicriteria Discrete Portfolio Optimization; opponent)

  • Textbook 'Mathematics of Economics and Business' (jointly with Y.N. Sotskov), 23 February 2006, Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon / UK, New York / USA; DOI: 10.4324/9780203401385 (Taylor & Francis Group).

  • Monograph 'Scheduling under Uncertainty: Theory and Algorithms' (download pdf) (gemeinsam mit Y.N. Sotskov, N.Y. Sotskova und T.-C- Lai), July 2010, Belarusian Science, Minsk/Belarus (cover page - download pdf).

  • Editor of the book 'Sequencing and Scheduling with Inaccurate Data' (jointly with Y.N. Sotskov), January 2014, Nova Science Publishers, 432 pages (picture with book on March 9, 2014). At WorldCat, you can get an information in which libraries of particular countries the book is available as a printed or E-book    (view at publisher).

  • Book 'A Refresher Course in Mathematics' , May 10, 2016, Bookboon, Denmark (average customer evaluation: ***** ; 26 reviews, date: 12 Aug 2022)

  • Editor of the book 'Algorithms for Scheduling Problems' (jointly with Larysa Burtseva and Yuri Sotskov), July 2018, MDPI Books, XIV + 194 pages (download ebook).

  • Editor of the book 'Exact and Heuristic Scheduling Algorithms' (jointly with Larysa Burtseva and Yuri Sotskov), March 2020, MDPI Books, XI + 185 pages (download ebook).

  • Editor of the book 'Graph-Theoretic Problems and Their New Applications, May 2020, MDPI Books, XII + 280 pages (download ebook).

  • Editor of the book 'Advances and Novel Approaches in Discrete Optimization', October 2020, MDPI Books, 354 pages (download ebook).

  • Co-Editor of the book 'Multicriteria Optimization: Pareto-Optimality and Threshold-Optimality' (jointly with Nodari Vakhania), November 2020, IntechOpen (download ebook).

  • Editor of the book 'The 1st International Electronic Conference on Algorithms', April 2022, MDPI Books, XII + 150 pages.

  • Co-Editor of the book 'Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2021), 7 - 9 July 2021; Revised Selected Papers', Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Vol. 601, Springer Nature, Cham / Switzerland; ISBN 978-3-031-2348-3, 2023, XII + 225 Seiten (jointly with G. Wagner, T. Ören and F. De Rango).

  • Editor of the book 'Scheduling: Algorithms and Applications', July 2023, MDPI Books, IX + 265 pages (download ebook).

  • Co-Herausgeber des Buchs 'Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2022), 14 - 16 July 2022; Revised Selected Papers', Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Vol. 780, Springer Nature, Cham / Switzerland; ISBN 978-3-031-343823-3, 2023, XII + 222 Seiten (gemeinsam mit G. Wagner und F. De Rango).

  • ERASMUS representative of the Faculty of Mathematics (1995 - 2019)

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      Honors/Awards

  • Award of the Karl-Marx grant (1978)

  • Award of the Department of Mathematics and Physics of the TU Magdeburg (1981)

  • Grant of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation (1992) (picture with Berthold Beitz at the Humboldt meeting in Villa Hügel in Essen in November 1995)

  • Citation of Excellence for 'Highest Quality Rating' of the paper 'Heuristics for Generalized Shop Scheduling Problems' (mit K. Krüger und Y. Sotskov, 1998, International Journal of Production Research) by Anbar Electronic Intelligence (certificate)

  • NOC Prize for the paper `Hierarchical Scheduling of Mobile Robots in Production-Transportation Supply Chains' (Authors: Eugene Levner, Leonid Meyzin and Frank Werner) at the 13th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing (Moscow, 3 - 5 June 2009)

  • Best Paper Award for the paper 'A Dynamic Model and an Algorithm for Short-Term Supply Chain Scheduling in the Smart Factory Industry 4.0' by Dmitry Ivanov, Alexandre Dolgui, Boris Sokolov, Frank Werner, Marina Ivanova, published in International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 54, No. 2, 2016, 386 - 402 (certificate).

  • Best Paper Award in the 2021 IISE Transactions Focus Issue on Design and Manufacturing für das Paper 'A Control Approach to Scheduling Flexibly Configurable Jobs with Dynamic Structural-Logical Constraints' von Dmitry Ivanov, Boris Sokolov, Weiwei Chen, Alexandre Dolgui, Frank Werner, Semyon Potryasaev

  • Award I DECLINED: Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award 2017 (and 2018) by Marquis Who's Who

  • Several first places/awards for teaching (docent ranking of students of Faculty of Economics and Management) with the following lectures - the following results exclusively refer to the years 2002 - 2005, the numbers denote the average scores in the anonymous ranking on a scale ranging from 15 (best possible score) to 1 (worst possible score):
    - Mathematics I (1st place in WS 2004/05 in the category Bachelor; score: 12.50)
    - Operations Research (1st place in WS 2003/04 in the category HS/Master; score: 13.83)
    - Scheduling (1st place in SS 2003 in the category HS/Master among 31 lectures; score: 13.80)
    - Mathematics I (1st place in WS 2002/03 in the category Bachelor among 12 lectures; score: 12.48; see also article in the university journal - in German)
    - Operations Research (1st place in WS 2002/03 in the category HS/Master among 33 lectures; score: 13.27)
    - Scheduling (1st place in SS 2002 in the category HS/Master among 31 lectures; score: 13.54)
    and several second places with the following lectures:
    - Mathematics II (2nd place in SS 2005 in the category Bachelor; score: 12.69)
    - Operations Research (2nd place in WS 2004/05 in the category HS/Master among 38 lectures, score: 13.30)
    - Mathematics I (2nd place in WS 2003/04 in the category Bachelor)
    - Operations Research (2nd place in WS 2001/02 in the category HS/Master among 35 lectures, score: 13.33)

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      Research Interests

  • Scheduling, in particular development of exact and approximative algorithms (Branch and bound, dynamic programming, approximation schemes, metaheuristic algorithms)

  • Stability investigations is discrete optimization, Scheduling with interval processing times

  • Complexity investigations for scheduling problems

  • Train scheduling

  • Graph theory

  • Logistics

  • Supply chains

  • Packing

  • Simulation and Applications

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