Frank Werner

Background

Werner, Frank was born on May 29, 1955 in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Son of Willi and Hannelore Werner.

Education

Abitur (with honors), 1973;

Diploma in Mathematics (with honors), Technical University, Magdeburg, 1980;

Doctor of Natural Sciences (summa cum laude), Technical University, Magdeburg, 1984;

Habilitation degree, Technical University, Magdeburg, 1989.

Career

Researcher Technical University, Magdeburg, 1983—1989; docent Otto-von-Guericke University, 1989—1998, Extraordinary Professor (since 1998); Research stay Pedagogical University, Minsk, Belarus, 1987; Research stay University Osnabrück (Grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 1992; Lecturer University Uppsala, Sweden, 1994; Research project manager Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg (1992—1998 and since 2004); Lecturer VWA Magdeburg, 2003—2015; Lecturer OVGU BS Magdeburg (iMBA since 2012 and MBA since 2020); Author: Textbook Mathematics of Economics and Business, 2006; Author: A Refresher Course in Mathematics, 2016; contributor chapters to books, articles to professional journals; editor professional journals; Supervisor of diploma, master, PhD and Postdoc students (since 1989).

Achievements

• More than 350 publications including 20 books as author, co-author or editor;
  
  Editor-in-Chief of the journal: Algorithms (since 2019);
  
  Associate Editor of the journals: International Journal of Production Research (since 2012), Journal of Scheduling (since 2014) Operations Research and Decisions (since 2014);
  
  Member of the Editorial Board of the journals: International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (since 2009), Journal of Applied Mathematics, Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization (since 2013), Operations Research Perspectives (since 2013), Research in Applied Mathematics (since 2016), Advances in Systems Science and Applications (since 2017), Current Trends in Computer Science & Applications (since 2018), Letters in Mathematical Sciences (since 2019), Computational Mathematics and Computer Modelling with Applications (since 2022), Journal of Artificial Intelligence & Cloud Computing (since 2023), Journal of Operational and Strategic Analysis (since 2023), Journal of Applied Research on Industrial Engineering (since 2023), Green Manufacturing Open (since 2024);
  
  Member of the Advisory Board of the journals International Journal of Operational Research Nepal (since 2011), International Journal of Intelligent Engineering and Systems (since 2025) and INASS Express (since 2025).
  
  Guest editor of Special Issues of the journals Annals of Operations Research, Computers and Operations Research, International Journal of Production Research, Automation and Remote Control, Algorithms, Mathematics; Bioengineering, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, CMC (Computers, Modeling & Continua), CMES (Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences), Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization, and AIMS Mathematics;
  
  Organizer (with H. Bräsel) of the Second Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling Problems, MAPSP, 1995;
  
  Referee for more than 40 international journals;
  
  Member of the Program Committee of approximately 200 international conferences;
  
  Manager of several research projects supported by German Research Society (DFG) and INTAS (European Community);
  
  Member of the Technical Committee on Manufacturing Modelling for Management and Control (since 2015).

Works

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• book

  • Scheduling Theory and Algorithms for Sustainable Manufacturing

    (This reprint of a Special Issue of Algorithms presents re...)

  • Production Planning and Scheduling for Lot Processing

    (This book is dedicated to questions of production plannin...)

  • 2022 and 2023 Selected Papers from Algorithms Editorial Board Members

    (This preprint of a special issue of the journal Algorithm...)

  • Optimization Algorithms: Theory and Applications

    (This reprint of a Special Issue of Mathematics presents r...)

  • Multicriteria Optimization: Pareto-Optimiality and Threshold-Optimality

    (This edited book contains five chapters with recent resul...)

    2020
  • Advances and Novel Approaches in Discrete Optimization

    (This is a printed version of a special issue with the sam...)

  • Algorithms for Scheduling Problems | MDPI Books

    (MDPI is a publisher of peer-reviewed, open access journal...)

    2018
  • A Refresher Course in Mathematics

    (The book refreshes the main subjects from mathematics tau...)

    2016
  • Graph-theoretic Problems and Their New Applications

    (Printed Edition of a Special Issue in the journals Mathem...)

  • Exact and Heuristic Scheduling Algorithms

    (Printed Edition of a Special Issue in the journal Algorit...)

    2020

• monograph

  • Sequencing and Scheduling with Inaccurate Data

    (Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, New York, 432 p., ISB...)

    2014
  • Scheduling under Uncertainty: Theory and Algorithms

    (Belarusian Science, Minsk, 326 p.; ISBN 978-985-08-1173-8)

    2010

• poster

  • Colloids Conference

    (During the poster presentation at the 5th Collids Confere...)

    2015

• textbook

  • Formats and Editions of Mathematics of economics and business [WorldCat.org]

    (Introduction; Sequences, Series and Finance; Functions of...)

    2006

Membership

• Member of Technical Committee on Manufacturing Modelling for Management and Control' (TC 5.2)

  IFAC , Austria

  2015 - present

Interests

• Photography, music, traveling, hiking

Connections

He is married since 2021.

Father:

Willi

Mother:

Hannelore

References

• ScholarGPS Ranking Information of scientists
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