Michelangelo Conforti is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Padova. Together with G. Cornuéjols and M. R. Rao, he received the 2000 Fulkerson Prize in discrete mathematics.
Gérard Cornuéjols is IBM University Professor of Operations Research at Carnegie Mellon University. His research has been recognized by numerous honors, among them the Fulkerson Prize, the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize, the Dantzig Prize, and the John von Neumann Theory Prize.
Giacomo Zambelli is Associate Professor (Reader) of Management Science at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences.
All three authors are leading experts in the fields of integer programming, graph theory, and combinatorial optimization.