Conference Organization:
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Program Chair of the 20th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2024), Thessaloniki, Greece, June 10-13, 2023.
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Scientific Coordinator of the 14th Free and Open Source Software Communities Meeting (FOSSCOMM 2021), Thessaloniki, Greece, November 13-14, 2021.
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Conference Chair of the 6th International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search (ICVNS 2018), Halkidiki, Greece, October 4-7, 2018.
Plenary Talks:
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Invited plenary speaker at the International Conference on Mathematical Models, Engineering and Environment, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 26-28, 2023.
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Invited plenary speaker at the 9th International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search (ICVNS 2022), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, October 25-28, 2022.
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Invited plenary speaker at the 3rd International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Optimization Technologies and Applications (MSOTA 2020), Beijing, China (virtual attendance), November 22-23, 2020.
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Invited plenary speaker at the International Conference on Mathematical Optimization Theory and Operations Research (MOTOR 2019), Ekaterinburg, Russia, July 8-12, 2019.
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Invited plenary speaker at the 8th International Conference on Network Analysis (NET 2018), Moscow, Russia, May 18-19, 2018.
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Invited plenary speaker at the 44th International Symposium on Operational Research (SYM-OP-IS 2017), Zlatibor, Serbia, September 25-28, 2017.
Invited Talks:
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Invited speaker at the Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia, March 06, 2024.
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Invited speaker at the 13th International Conference on Network Analysis (NET 2023), Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, May 10-12, 2023.
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Invited speaker at the Laboratory of Algorithms and Technologies for Network Analysis, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (virtual attendance), March 2, 2022.
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Invited speaker at the Laboratory of Algorithms and Technologies for Network Analysis, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (virtual attendance), March 24, 2021.
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Invited speaker at the Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia, September 29, 2017.
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Invited speaker at the Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia, September 6, 2013.
Honors and awards:
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"Notable Reviewer" recognition by the Editor-in-Chief of Operational Research, published by Springer, for 2015.
Editorial Memberships:
- Associate Editor of Operations Research Forum, Springer, (Editorial Board member:2022 - present).
- Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi, (Editorial Board member:2020 - present).
- Electronic Research Archive, American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Press, (Editorial Board member:2024 - present).
- Area Editor of Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research, published by the Yugoslav Society for Applied and Industrial Mathematics (JUPIM), (Editorial Board member: 2012 - present).
Co-editor of Special Issues:
- Special issue in Optimization Letters, (Springer): ICVNS 2021
- Special issue in Journal of Global Optimization, (Springer): ICVNS 2018
- Special issue in International Transactions in Operational Research (Wiley): Matheuristics and Metaheuristics
- Special issue in Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, (Elsevier): 5th International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search
- Special cluster in International Transactions in Operational Research (Wiley): Variable Neighborhood Search, Variants and Recent Applications
- Special issue in Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, (Elsevier): 4th International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search (ICVNS'16)
- Special issue in Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, (Elsevier): 3rd International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS'14)
- Special issue in Optimization (Taylor & Francis): Advances in discrete optimization
- Special issue in Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics (Elsevier): EURO Mini Conference (MEC XXVIII) on Variable Neighborhood Search
- Special issue in International Journal of Applied Management Science (Inderscience): New Combinatorial Optimisation Models for Decision Making
- Special issue in Operational Research (Springer): Optimization models in environment and sustainable development