Handbook for Management of Threats Security and Defense, Resilience and Optimal Strategies

Konstantinos Balomenos is Political and International Relations scientist and Director General of General Directorate of National Defense Policy & International Relations, Hellenic Ministry of National Defense.

Antonios Fytopoulos graduated from the Hellenic Army Academy as an officer and pursued a military career, where he received numerous awards. In 2018 he received his diploma from the School of Chemical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, where he graduated in the top 5% of his class. In 2017 he joined KU Leuven as a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemical Engineering. His Ph.D. project focused on population balance-based optimization of deracemization processes for pharmaceutical applications. He has participated and presented his research at several national and international conferences and coauthored articles in international peer-reviewed journals.

Panos M. Pardalos serves as Distinguished Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida (Emeritus). He is also an affiliated faculty member of the Computer and Information Science Department, the Hellenic Studies Center, and the Biomedical Engineering Program. Dr. Pardalos is a world leading expert in global and combinatorial optimization. His recent research interests include network design problems, optimization in telecommunications, e-commerce, data mining, biomedical applications, and massive computing. He has co-authored and co-edited more than 50 books, as well as publishing more than 600 journal articles and conference proceedings. Prof. Pardalos is a Fellow of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and EUROPT. He is a Distinguished International Professor by the Chinese Minister of Education; Honorary Professor of Anhui University of Sciences and Technology, China; Elizabeth Wood Dunlevie Honors Term Professor; Honorary Doctor, V.M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics of The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Foreign Associate Member of Reial Academia de Doctors, Spain; and Advisory board member of the Centre for Optimisation and Its Applications, Cardiff University, UK. He is also the recipient of UF 2009 International Educator Award; Medal (in recognition of broad contributions in science and engineering) of the University of Catani, Italy; EURO Gold Medal (EGM); Honorary Doctor of Science Degree, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada; Senior Fulbright Specialist Award; University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship; and IBM Achievement Award.