Author: Vladimir Marianov

H.A. Eiselt is a Professor in the Faculty of Business Administration of the University of New Brunswick. He received his Diploma in Business Management from the University of Gottingen in 1975 and his doctorate degree in Operations Research from the same University in 1978. His teaching and research interests are in the fields of location, multicriteria decision making and optimization, with specialization in competitive location models, the location of landfills, location models with multiple objectives and spatial representations of discrete decision problems. His research has appeared in journals such as: Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, Transportation Science, Networks, the Journal of Regional Science, Location Science, Computers & Operations Research, the European Journal of Operational Research, INFOR, the Annals of Operations Research, the Journal of the Operational Research Society, Environment and Planning, Computers & Industrial Engineering, International Transactions in Operational Research and many others. In addition, he has published seven books on different aspects of operations research. Vladimir Marianov is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. He earned a M.S.E. and a Ph.D. degrees from The Johns Hopkins University in 1987 and 1989, respectively, as well as an Electrical Engineering degree from Universidad de Chile in 1978. His teaching and research interests are in the area of location, modeling, with applications in communications networks, nature reserve selection, location of public services, location under congestion and location of competitive facilities. His research has appeared in such journals as: Computers and Operational Research, Annals of Operational Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Papers in Regional Science, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, IIE Transactions, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Location Science, Environment and Planning B, Computers and Education, Computer Communications, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, RAIRO Operations Research, OR Letters and INFOR Journal (Canada).