Meet the editor

Bruno Carpentieri obtained a Laurea degree in Applied Mathematics in 1997 from Bari University. He then furthered his PhD studies in Computer Science at the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France. After a postdoctoral appointment at the Institute of Mathematics and Scientific Computing, University of Graz, and as a consultant for a European project in cardiac modeling at CRS4 in Sardinia, Italy, he served as an assistant

professor at the Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, and as a reader in Applied Mathematics at the School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University in the UK. Since May 2017 he has held an associate professor appointment in applied mathematics at the Faculty of Computer Science, University of Bozen-Bolzano. His research interests are in the field of applied mathematics, numerical linear algebra, and high-performance computing.

Bruno Carpentieri served as a member of the scientific advisory board of several conference panels in computational mathematics and high-performance scientific computing (ENUMATH'07, Beteq'07, Beteq'08, Beteq'09, CEM'11, CEM'13, CEM'15, CEM'17, CEM'18, HPC2014, HPC2015, HPC2016, HPC2017, HPC2018, HPC2019, ICBCB 2017, and HPC/SmartTechCon2017). He is an editorial board member of the *Journal of Applied Mathematics*, an editorial committee member of *Mathematical Reviews* (American Mathematical Society), and a reviewer of about 30 scientific journals in numerical analysis and scientific computing. He has supervised 20 students' projects at BSc, MSc, and PhD level, and he is the author of about 40 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Contents

Preface III

Chapter 1 1

Chapter 2 29

Chapter 3 47

Chapter 4 73

Chapter 5 89

Chapter 6 111

Chapter 7 129

Some Unconstrained Optimization Methods

Methods and Trust-Region Methods

What Determines EP Curve Shape?

Designing the Access Network

by Ruma Kareem K. Ajeena

Unconstrained Optimization Methods: Conjugate Gradient

Topological Properties and Dynamic Programming Approach for

by Franco Robledo, Pablo Romero, Pablo Sartor, Luis Stábile

The Graphs for Elliptic Curve Cryptography

A Study of Bounded Variation Sequence Spaces

Legendre, Tchebycheff, and Gegenbauer by Vicente Aboites and Miguel Ramírez

by Vakeel Ahmad Khan, Hira Fatima and Mobeen Ahmad

Simple Approach to Special Polynomials: Laguerre, Hermite,

by Snezana S. Djordjevic

by Snezana S. Djordjevic

by Frank Xuyan Wang

and Omar Viera
