International Advisory Editors
Carlo Bardaro (Italy)
Universita di Perugia
bardaro@unipg.it

Riccardo Cambini (Italy)
Universita di Pisa
cambric@ec.unipi.it

Arjun K. Gupta (USA)
Bowling Green State University
gupta@bgsu.edu

Ram N. Mohapatra (USA)
University of Central Florida
ramm@mail.ucf.edu

Ioan Rasa (Romania)
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
Ioan.Rasa@math.utcluj.ro

EDITORS
SERGIU AIZICOVICI
Ohio University, Department of Mathematics, Athens, OH 45701, USA

KRISHNASWAMI ALLADI
University of Florida, Department of Mathematics, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA

GEORGE ANASTASSIOU
University of Memphis, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Memphis, TN 38152, USA

MARK J. BALAS
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Department of Aerospace Engineering & Department of Electrical Engineering, Daytona Beach, FL 32114, USA

VIOREL BARBU
University of Iasi, Department of Mathematics, 6600 Iasi, Romania

HAROLD P. BENSON
University of Florida, Warrington College of Business Administration, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA

NORMAN BIGGS
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Statistical and Mathematical Sciences, London WC2A 2AE, England, UK

JAMES H. BRAMBLE
Texas A&M University, Department of Mathematics, College Station, TX 77843, USA

E. WARD CHENEY
University of Texas at Austin, Department of Mathematics, Austin, TX 78712, USA

PAUL R. CHERNOFF
University of California at Berkeley, Department of Mathematics, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

CHARLES CHIDUME
African University of Science & Technology, Mathematics Institute, Abuja, Nigeria

NAK E. CHO
Pukyong National University, Department of Applied Mathematics, Pusan 608-737, Republic of Korea

YEOL J. CHO
Gyeongsang National University, Department of Mathematics Educations RINS, Chinju 660-701, Korea

K. -K. STEPHEN CHOI
Simon Fraser University, Department of Mathematics, Burnaby, BC V5A 1SG, Canada

W. EDWIN CLARK
University of south Florida, Department of Mathematics, Tampa, FL 33620, USA

FRANCIS CLARKE
University of Montreal, Department of Mathematics, Montreal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada

PH. CLEMENT
Delft University of Technology, Department of Pure Mathematics, 2628 CD Delft, Netherlands

RONALD DeVORE
University of South Carolina, Department of Mathematics, Columbia, SC 29208, USA

SEVER S. DRAGOMIR
Victoria University of Technology, School of Communications and Technology, Melbourne City, MC 8001, Australia

NEVEN ELEZOVIC
University of Zagreb, Department of Applied Mathematics, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

DAVID ELLIOTT
University of Tasmania, Department of Mathematics, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia

DANIEL GOELEVEN
University of La-Reunionaires, IREMIA, Saint-Dennis 97400, France

RUDOLF GORENFLO
Freie Universitaet Berlin Arnimallee 3, Mathematisches Institut, D-14195 Berlin-Dahlem, Germany

JOHN R. GRAEF
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Department of Mathematics, Chattanooga, TN 47403, USA

R. D. GRIGORIEFF
Technische Universitat Berlin, Fachbereich Mathematik, D-16023 Berlin, Germany

ROBIN HARTE
Trinity College, School of Mathematics, Dublin 2, Ireland

RICHARD D. HILL
Idaho State University, Department of Mathematics, Pocatello, Idaho 83209, USA

MASAO IRI
Chuo University, Information and System Engineering, Tokyo 112, Japan

GORDON D. JAMES
Imperial College London, Department of Mathematics, London, SW7 2BZ, England, UK

PALLE E. T. JORGENSEN
University of Iowa, Department of Mathematics, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA

DANIEL D. JOSEPH
University of Minnesota, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA

RAVI N. KALIA
St. Cloud State University, Department of Mathematics, St. Cloud, MN 56301, USA

G. KALLIANPUR
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Statistics, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

YOSHI KAMISHIMA
Kumamoto University, Department of Mathematics, Kumamoto 860, Japan

SHIN MIN KANG
Gyeongsang National University, Department of Mathematics and RINS, Jinju 660-701, Korea

ATHANASSIOS G. KARTSATOS
University of South Florida, Department of Mathematics, Tampa, FL 33620, USA

LOUIS H. KAUFFMAN
University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and computer Science, Chicago, IL 60607, USA

JONG K. KIM
Kyungnam University, Department of Mathematics, Masan, Kyungnan 631-701, Korea

W. A. KIRK
University of Iowa, Department of Mathematics, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA

VIRGINIA S. KIRYAKOVA
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Math. & Informatics, BG-1113 Sofia, Bulgaria

ANDREW J. KLIMAS
Xavier University of Louisiana, Department of Mathematics, New Orleans, USA

VILMOS KOMORNIK
Universite Louis Pasteur, Departement de Mathematque, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France

BERTRAM KOSTANT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

JOSEPH J. LIANG
University of South Florida, Department of Mathematics, Tampa, FL 33620, USA

ALBERT E. LIVINGSTON
University of Delaware, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Newark, DE 19716, USA

ARTHUR L. LOEB
Harvard University, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

MANUEL LOPEZ-PELLICER
(The Madrid Academy of Sciences); Technical University of Valencia, IUMPA, ES-46022 Valencia, Spain

GUOZHEN LU
University of Connecticut, Department of Mathematics, Storrs, CT 06269, USA

D. S. LUBINSKY
University of Witswatersrand, Department of Mathematics, Johannesburg, South Africa

JUAN E. MARTINEZ-LEGAZ
Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

RICHARD K. MILLER
Iowa State University, Department of Mathematics, Ames, IA 50010, USA

S. K. MITTER
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

BORIS S. MORDUKHOVICH
Wayne State University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Detroit, MI 48202, USA

DUMITRU MOTREANU
University of Perpignan, Department of Mathematics, 66860 Perpignan City, France

SVETOSLAV NENOV
University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, Department of Mathematics, 1756 Sofia, Bulgaria

CONSTANTIN P. NICULESCU
University of Craiova, Center for Nonlinear Analysis and Applications, Craiova 1100, Romania

DONAL O’REGAN
National University of Ireland, Department of Mathematics, Galway, Ireland

FERNANDA PAMBIANCO
University of Perugia, Department of Mathematis and Informatics, Perugia, Italy

N. H. PAVEL
Ohio University, Department of Mathematics, Athens, OH 45701, USA

JOSIP PECARIC
University of Zagreb, Department of Applied Mathematics, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

KARL PETERSEN
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Mathematics, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

ALLAN PETERSON
University Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Mathematics, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA

TOMASO POGGIO
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

SORIN POPA
University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Mathematics, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA

ALEXANDER G. RAMM
Kansas State University, Department of Mathematics, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA

B. E. RHOADES
Indiana University at Bloomington, Department of Mathematics, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA

ERVIN Y. RODIN
Washington University at St. Louis, Department of Systems Science & Mathematics, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA

DONALD J. ROSE
Duke University, Department of Computer Science, Durham, NC 27706, USA

MARTIN SCHECHTER
University of California at Irvine, Department of Mathematics, Irvine, CA 92717, USA

STEVE SCHECTER
North Carolina State University, Department of Mathematics, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA

YIBING SHEN
Zhejiang University, Department of Mathematics, Hangzhou 310012, Zhejiang, P.R. China

BARRY SIMON
California Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

IVAN SINGER
Romanian Academy, Institute of Mathematics, 70700 Bucharest, Romania

MICHAEL F. SINGER
North Carolina State University, Department of Mathematics, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA

YUM-TONG SIU
Harvard University, Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

H. M. SRIVASTAVA
University of Victoria, Department of Mathematics, Victoria, B.C. V8W 3R4, Canada

R. P. SRIVASTAV
State University of New York, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA

RICHARD P. STANLEY
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

GLENN H. STEVENS
Boston University, Department of Mathematics, Boston, MA 02215, USA

J. SZABADOS
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Mathematics Institute, 1364 Budapest, Hungary

EARL J. TAFT
Rutgers University, Department of Mathematics, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA

WATARU TAKAHASHI
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematical and Computing Engineering, 2-12, O-Okayama, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan

REGINALD P. TEWARSON
State University of New York, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA

BRIAN S. THOMSON
Simon Fraser University, Department of Mathematics, Burnaby, B.C.,V5A 1S6, Canada

SAMUEL C. C. TING
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

DAN VOICULESCU
University of California at Berkeley, Department of Mathematics, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

M. W. WONG
York University, Department of Mathematics, North York, Ontario M3J 1P4, Canada

ANTON ZETTL
Northern Illinois University, Department of Mathematics, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA

JIANPING ZHU
Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

ROBERT E. ZINK
Purdue University, Department of Mathematics, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA