Chapter 1 Soliton Self-wave Number Downshift Compensation by the Increasing Second-Order Dispersion

Chapter 2 Pattern-Based Heuristic for the Cell Formation Problem in Group Technology

Chapter 3 An Analytical Expression for the Distribution of the Sum of Random Variables with a Mixed Uniform Density and Mass Function

Chapter 4 A fixed point theorem for contractions in modular metric spaces

Chapter 5 Network-Based Representation of Stock Market Dynamics: An Application to American and Swedish Stock Markets

Chapter 6 On a Numerically Stable Algorithm for the Analysis of Generalized Volterra Lattice

Chapter 7 How Close to Optimal Are Small World Properties of Human Brain Networks?

Chapter 8 Optimizing Network Topology to Reduce Aggregate Traffic in Systems of Mobile Agents

Chapter 10 Evacuation Through Clustering Techniques

Chapter 11 Economic Analysis of the N-k Power Grid Contingency Selection and Evaluation

Chapter 12 Calcium Transient Imaging as Tool for Neuronal and Glial Network Interaction Study