Yuri N. Sotskov, Prof. D.Sc., finished secondary school with a gold medal in 1966 and graduated from the Faculty of Applied Mathematics of the Belarusian State University in Minsk in 1971. In 1980, he defended his PhD thesis at the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus in Minsk. In 1991, he defended his D.Sc. thesis at the Institute of Cybernetics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kiev. He has the title of Professor in Application of Mathematical Models and Methods in Scientific Research (Russian Academy of Sciences, 1994). He currently works as a principal researcher at the United Institute of Informatics Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus in Minsk. He has more than 350 publications: five scientific monographs, two text books, and more than 200 papers in international journals, books, and conference proceedings in English on applied mathematics, operations research graph theory and scheduling. He is on the Editorial Board of five journals. He has been a supervisor of eight PhD scholars (defended). In 1998, he received the National Prize of Belarus in Science and Engineering.