Special issue on optimization in disaster relief

Special issue on disaster response robotics

Disaster response robotics is an important and growing application domain in robotics. Robotics researchers and the general public are increasingly aware of disaster response and rescue robotics due to the presence of disaster response robots at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear power plant. Research in disaster response robotics focuses on core areas related to safety, security, and rescue applica...

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Special issue on "Optimization models in environment and sustainable development"

Today, sustainable management of the environment and its resources is an issue of vital importance in our contemporary societies and especially in developed societies. The scarcity of resources may well account for this fact. The importance of this problem underlies the necessity for adapting measures aiming at its solution. Many research papers and scientific conferences have been devoted to t...

Special Issue on Control and Optimization in Cooperative Networks

This special issue of the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization is motivated by the emerging disciplines of multi-agent networks, distributed motion coordination, and cooperative control. It is foreseen that, in the near future, large numbers of coordinated devices communicating through ad hoc networks will perform a variety of challenging sensing tasks. The potential advantages of employing...

Special issue on hyper-heuristics in search and optimization

A hyper-heuristic is an automated methodology for selecting or generating heuristics to solve hard computational search problems. The main feature distinguishing these methods is that they explore a search space of heuristics (rather than a search space of potential solutions to a problem). The goal is that hyper-heuristics will lead to more general systems that are able to automatically operat...