Computational Recipes of Linear and Non-Linear Singular Integral Equations and Relativistic Mechanics in Engineering and Applied Science. Volume I

Author: Evangelos G. Ladopoulos
Affiliation: Professor, Civil Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Chairman of Interpaper Research Organization
Birthplace: 1962  Patras/Greece -  Greek (EU)
Biography: Prof. Dr. Civil Engineer, Mechanical Engineer & Petroleum Engineer, D.Sc. Included in the list of 2000 Outstanding Scientists of 20th Century by Cambridge Biographical Centre. Included in the list of 2000 Outstanding Scientists of 21st  Century by Cambridge Biographical Centre. Included in the list of 100 Top Scientists of 2007 by Cambridge Biographical Centre. Over 200 publications in high quality scientific journals. Project Manager for over 500 Projects in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Petroleum Engineering. Chairman and Professor by Interpaper Research Organization. Visiting Professor at Universities in Europe and USA.
Audience: The intended audience is Universities, Research Institutions, Companies, Manufacturers, Industries, Software Companies, Mathematicians, Physicists, Civil Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Aerospace Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Software Engineers, other Engineers, Scientists, etc.

Control Theory: Perspectives, Applications and Developments

Editor: Francisco Miranda
Affiliation: Ph.D., Center for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications, University of Aveiro, Portugal; Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Birthplace: Portugal, April 1, 1975
Biography: Francisco Miranda was born on April 1, 1975 in Viana do Castelo, Portugal. He graduated in Mathematics from University of Coimbra in 1999. Having done research on Control Theory he earned his MSc (2003) and PhD (2008) degrees in Applied Mathematics from University of Porto. His research interests focus on stabilization and observability of control systems, optimal control, guidance control, numerical methods of stabilizer construction, and time scales. Currently, he is Professor and Head of Mathematics Department at the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, Portugal. He is also a researcher at Center for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications, University of Aveiro, Portugal, and research collaborator at Centro de Estatística e Modelação of Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, Portugal.
Audience: Academicians, researchers, advanced-level students, technology developers, and engineers. This book can potentially be used in any undergraduate or graduate course in the field of control theory.

Mathematical Genetics

Author: Andrey Nikolaevich Volobuev
Affiliation: Samara State Medical University, Head of the Chair Physics, Russia
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia, July, 3 1947, Russian
Biography: Volobuev Andrey Nickolaevich, graduated N.E. Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School (1971), Candidate of Technical Science (1978), Doctor of Technical Sciences (1994) (Dr. habil. sc. ing. Latvian Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedy), the professor (1995). Since 1996 the Head of Chair of Medical and Biological Physics of Samara State Medical University. More than 400 scientific work, 9 monography and 17 patents be by the author. Honoured Worker of the Samara Region Higher School. The Chairman Samara branch of United Physical Society of the Russian Federation. The Individual Member of European Physical Society. Scientific interests: biophysics, genetics, hemodynamics, neuroprocesses, nonlinear processes.
Audience: The book can be useful to geneticists, to students-biologists, post-graduate students and everything which are interested in problems of population genetics.

High Order Boundary Value Problems: Existence, Localization and Multiplicity Results

Authors: João Fialho and Feliz Minhós
Affiliation:
João Fialho: Dr., Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics, Physics and Technology, College of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
Feliz Minhós: Dr., Associate Professor, Departamento de Matemática, Universidade de Évora, Évora – Portugal
Birthplace:
João Fialho: Évora, Portugal, Portuguese
Feliz Minhós: Cano, Portugal, Portuguese
Biography:
Dr. Joao Fialho is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the College of the Bahamas. He has a PhD in Mathematics awarded by the University of Évora in 2012. As a researcher he has published several research papers in the field of Differential Equations, with more emphasis on higher order problems and applications, especially via the upper and lower solution method.

Dr. Feliz Manuel Minhós was born in January, 30, 1959. He received his PhD degree in 2002 from University of Évora, Portugal, and obtain the Habilitation degree in 2010. He was Head of the Department in the period 2003-2005. Nowadays he is Assistant Professor with Habilitation in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Évora and, since 2011,  Director of the Doctoral Program in Mathematics of the University of Évora. His research interests are Variational and Topological methods for Boundary Value Problems, nonlinear functional analysis, differential and fractional equations and fixed-point theory.
Audience: These contents have of wide scope amongst researchers in various areas like Mathematics, Engineering and Finance as they offer applications to theoretical problems as well as techniques to build and define lower and upper solutions for higher order problems. It is also very useful for students from undergraduate to graduate level in those fields as it provides arguments based on elementary and basic concepts, without "deep mathematics tools" and includes examples, where lower and upper solutions are properly defined and applied.

Hypergraphs and Designs

Authors: Mario Gionfriddo, Lorenzo Milazzo and Vitaly Voloshi
Affiliation:
Mario Gionfriddo: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, Italy
Lorenzo Milazzo: PhD, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, Italy
Vitaly  Voloshin: PhD, Department of Mathematics, Troy University, AL, USA; PhD
Birthplace:
Mario Gionfriddo:   Messina,  Italy,   11/06/1946
Lorenzo Milazzo: Catania, Italy,   08/04/1963
Vitaly  Voloshin:   Republic of Moldova,  03/18/1954; current citizenship - USA
Biography:
Mario Gionfriddo is a Professor of Geometry at the Department of  Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, Italy, since  1981, after a period of nine years at Messina University.  His main  scientific interests lie in Graph Theory, Hypergraphs and Designs.  He  was  director of research of  an Italian national research project and  more than 25 research projects of Catania University in the area of  Combinatorial Geometry, Designs, Graphs and their Applications. He is  a member of editorial board of several international journals,  was   guest editor of twelve special volumes of major international journals  in the field, and was  main organizer of a series of  major   international conferences  in Italy (including such  top conferences  as "Combinatorics 92" and "Combinatorics 04") with participation of  famous mathematicians like C. Berge, P. Erdos, F. Harary and many  others.  In 1996-1999 he was the Head  of the Department of  Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania.  He was among the very few Italian mathematicians to study Graph Theory in 1970s, and is one of the originators of scientific school in Graphs, Hypergraphs ad Combinatorial Designs in  Italy with many outstanding followers and collaborators all over the  world.  He is the author of more than 120 scientific papers and currently teaches the courses "Graph Theory" and "Combinatorial Geometry" for  mathematics majors.

Lorenzo Milazzo is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, Italy, since 1997. His main interests are in Graph Theory, Hypergraph, Designs and its applications. He received his PhD Degree (1997) in Mathematics from the University of Federico II of Napoli, Italy. He is one of the initiators of scientific direction related to the colorings of block designs as mixed hypergraphs and the author and co-author over thirty articles in international journals. He participated and was an organizer of  a series of major international conferences, workshops and seminars, was visiting professor at Auburn University  and Moldova State University.

Vitaly Voloshin is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Troy University, USA.  He worked  at Moldova State University  and at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics (Republic of Moldova) for many years, and moved to the United States in 2002. His research areas  include graph and hypergraph theory and its applications. In 1993, he originated the direction of mixed hypergraph coloring, and there are now more than 200 scientific publications on the subject all over the world.  He is the author of a research Fields  Institute Monograph, two textbooks and more than one hundred of scientific publications. His research has been repeatedly supported  by scientific foundations of Italy, Germany,  Canada, the United States, and other countries.   He was the invited speaker of many major international conferences, held visiting positions at many universities throughout the world, and supervised and was consulted on many MS and Ph.D. theses.
Audience: Its primary audience are researchers and graduate students taking courses in design theory, combinatorial geometry, finite geometry, discrete mathematics, graph theory, combinatorics, cryptography, information and coding theory, and similar areas.

Foundations of Iso-Differential Calculus, Volume 5: Iso-Stochastic Differential Equations

Author: Svetlin Georgiev
Affiliation: Professor, Dr.Sc., Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Department of Differential Equations, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
Birthplace: April 5, 1974, Rousse, Bulgaria
Biography: Svetlin Georgiev (born on April 5th, 1974) is a Bulgarian mathematician working in areas of  ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, stochastic differential equations, Clifford algebras, Clifford analysis, Iso-Mathematics . He is currently a Professor at Sorbonne University (Paris, France).
Audience: Professional people: mathematicians, physicists, chemists, engineers. Nonprofessional people of industry: producers of telescopes.

Sub-Independence: A Useful Concept

Authors: G.G. Hamedani and Mehdi Maadooliat
Affiliation:
G.G. Hamedani: Professor and Editor, JSTA, Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Marquette University, WI, US
Mehdi Maadooliat: Professor, Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Marquette University, WI, US
Birthplace:
G.G. Hamedani: Tehran, Iran, 01/07/1944
Mehdi Maadooliat: East Lansing, MI, USA, 24/08/1981
Biography:
Prof. Hamedani received his PhD from Michigan State University. He is a Professor at Marquette University since 1982. Dr. Hamedani has been Editor of the Journal of Statistical Theory and Applications since 2005 and before that on its first Editorial Board. He is on the Editorial board of the Journal of Applied Statistical Sciences since it’s beginning. Dr. Hamedani is also the coauthor of a book entitled "Exponential Distribution: Theory and Method."

Dr. Maadooliat received his BS from Sharif University of Technology, MS from Marquette and PhD from Texas A&M University. He is an Assistant Professor at Marquette University and his primary research interests lie in the developments of the statistical models in high-dimensional data structures with application to biological sciences, including, but not limited to genomics and proteomics.
Audience: Graduate Students; Probability and Statistics Instructors at Graduate Level; All academicians who will be employing advanced probability and statistics in their research areas; The probabilists and/or statisticians who work in industries; Biostatisticians.

The Atomic Structure and Law

Author: Kunming Xu
Affiliation: Associate Professor, College of Ocean & Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, China, Ph.D, The University of Delaware
Birthplace: Xiamen, China on July 14, 1965; Chinese citizenship.
Biography: Kunming Xu is an associate professor at Xiamen University, China. He received a BSc degree from Xiamen University in 1987 and MSc and Ph.D degrees in marine studies from the University of Delaware at Lewes in 1997 and 2000, respectively. In addition to his academic career, he has extensive industrial experience, including working as an associate engineer and a sale representative for Xiamen Overseas Chinese Electronic Company from 1987 to 1994; as a software developer for United Stated Data Corporation in Richardson, Texas in 2000; and as a software engineer for eWings Technologies Inc. in Plato, Texas in 2001.
Audience: This book is intended for professional researchers as well as the general public who are interested in fundamental science. Professional researchers in geometry, calculus, theoretical physics, theoretical chemistry, organic chemistry, quantum mechanics, and Chinese medicine will find it useful in their work. Nonprofessional people who are curious about the new discovery of four-dimensional space, and the order of atoms and organisms based on the four-dimensional space, will find it interesting and appealing.