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Prof. Dr. Stefan Pickl is professor for Operations Research at Universität der Bundeswehr in Munich. He studied mathematics, electrical engineering, and philosophy at TU Darmstadt and EPFL Lausanne 1987-93. Dipl.-Ing. '93, Doctorate 1998 with award. Assistant Professor at Cologne University (Dr. habil. 2005; venia legendi ``Mathematics"). Visiting Professor at University of New Mexico (U.S.A.), University Graz (Austria), University of California at Berkeley. Visiting scientist at SANDIA, Los Alamos National Lab, Santa Fe Institute for Complex Systems and MIT. Associated with Centre for the Advanced Study of Algorithms (CASA, USA) and Center for Network Innovation and Experimentation (CENETIX, USA) , vice-chair of EURO group ``Experimental OR", program for highly gifted pupils, research program``Intelligent Networks and Security Structures" (INESS), ``Critical Infrastructures and System Analyses" (CRISYS). International best paper awards '03, '05, '07. Foundation of COMTESSA (Competence Center for Operations Research, Strategic Planning Management, Safety & Security ALLIANCE). Prof. Dr. Dmitrii Lozovanu received his PhD in mathematics in 1980 from the Institute of Cybernetics of Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev. After the habilitation theses defense in 1991 he became professor in Computer Science. He is the head of department of Applied Mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Moldova State University, Chisinau. His research interest s are related to discrete optimization, game theory, optimal control and stochastic decision processes.