Flexible and Generalized Uncertainty Optimization: Theory and Approaches

Weldon Alexander Lodwick is a Full Professor of Mathematics at the University of Colorado Denver. He holds a Ph.D. degree in mathematics (1980) from the Oregon State University. He is the co-editor of the book Fuzzy Optimization: Recent Developments and Applications, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing Vol. 254, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010, and the author of the book Interval and Fuzzy Analysis: A Unified Approach in Advances in Imaging and Electronic Physics, Vol. 148, pp. 76–192, Elsevier, 2007. His current research interests include interval analysis, distance geometry, as well as flexible and generalized uncertainty optimization. Over the last thirty years he has taught applied mathematical modeling to undergraduate and graduate students, which covers topics such as radiation therapy of tumor, fuzzy and possibilistic optimization modeling, global optimization, optimal control, molecular distance geometry problems, and neural networks applied to control problems.
Luiz L. Salles-Neto received the M.Sc. degree in mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in computational and applied mathematics from the University of Campinas, Brazil, in 2000 and 2005, respectively. He was a Research Scholar at the Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, in 2009/2010, and a Research Scholar at the University of Colorado Denver, USA, in 2017. He is an Associate Professor at Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil.