John Cagnol is an assistant professor at Pole Universitaire Leonard de Vinci in Paris, France. He is the author of numerous journal articles, technical reports and conference presentations. Professor Cagnol is a member of the American Mathematical Society, the International Federation for Information Processing, and is the secretary for the IFIP Working Group 7.2 on Computational Techniques in Distributed Systems.
Jean-Paul Zolesio is a CNRS Research Director at the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique in Sophia Antipolis, France. He is the author of over 160 papers and the author or editor of several books. Professor Zolesio is a member of the technical committee of the French lab OPRATEL, and the chair of the Working Group 7.2 of the 7th IFIP technical committee.