“…This research area developed into several directions and attracted a lot of interest in the past 50 years, starting with the seminal papers by Korobov [20], Hlawka [18], and Bakhvalov [2]. Afterwards many authors contributed to the construction and analysis of optimal cubature formulae for multivariate functions (with bounded mixed derivative), see, e.g., Frolov [12], Bykovskii [3], Temlyakov [33][34][35][36][37][38][39], Dubinin [7,8], Skriganov [31], Triebel [43], Hinrichs et al [16,17], Markhasin [23], Novak and Woźniakowski [26], Krieg and Novak [21], Dick and Pillichshammer [6], Dũng and Ullrich [10], Goda et al [14,15], and Ullrich [45], to mention just a few. More historical comments and further references can be found at the end of this introduction as well as in the recent survey paper [9,Sect.…”