**About the Editor**

**Frank Werner** studied Mathematics from 1975–1980 and graduated from the Technical University Magdeburg (Germany) with honors. He defended his Ph.D. thesis on the solution of special scheduling problems in 1984 with 'summa cum laude' and his habilitation thesis in 1989. In 1992, he received a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Currently, he works as an extraordinary professor at the Faculty of Mathematics of the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (Germany). He is the author or editor of seven books, among them the textbooks 'Mathematics of Economics and Business' and 'A Refresher Course in Mathematics', and he has published more than 280 papers in international journals. He serves on the Editorial Board of 17 journals, in particular, he is the Editor-in-Chief of Algorithms and an Associate Editor of the *International Journal of Production Research* and *Journal of Scheduling*. He has served as a member of the Program Committee of more than 80 international conferences. His research interests are operations research, combinatorial optimization, and scheduling.
