About the Author: Dr. Pandian Vasant is a senior lecturer at Department of Fundamental and Applied Sciences, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS in Malaysia. He holds PhD in Computational Intelligence, MSc (Engineering Mathematics) and BSc (Hons) in Mathematics. His research interests include Soft Computing, Hybrid Optimization, Innovative Computing and Applications. He has co-authored research articles in journals, conference proceedings, presentations, special issues guest editor, and book chapters (154 publications indexed in SCOPUS). In 2009 and 2015, he was awarded top reviewer and outstanding reviewer for the journal Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier). He has 25 years of working experiences at the universities. Currently he is Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Computing & Optimization, International Journal of Industrial Engineering & Management, International Journal of Swarm Intelligence & Evolutionary Computing, Editor of Global Journal Technology & Optimization, Editor of Cogent Engineering (WoS/SCOPUS) and Associate Editor of International Journal of Fuzzy Systems Applications (Scopus).
Prof. Igor Litvinchev is a Professor in the Graduate Program in Systems Engineering (PISIS) and Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (FIME) at Nuevo Leon State University (UANL), Monterrey, Mexico. He has a Doctor of Sciences (Habilitation) in Systems Modeling and Optimization from Computing Center Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia and a Ph.D. (Candidate of Sciences Degree) in Systems Theory and Operations Research from Computing Center USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. He is the co-founder of Mexican Society of Operations Research and the Mexican Logistics and Supply Chain Association, is on numerous editorial boards, has been committee chair for dozens of conferences, has received many awards, and has contributed to several books.
Jose Antonio Marmolejo is a Professor at Panamerican University, Mexico. His research is on operations research, large-scale optimization techniques, computational techniques and analytical methods for planning, operations, and control of electric energy and logistic systems. He received his Doctorate in Operations Research (Hons) at National Autonomous University of Mexico. At present, He has the third highest country-wide distinction granted by the Mexican National System of Research Scientists for scientific merit (SNI Fellow, Level 1). He is a member of the Network for Decision Support and Intelligent Optimization of Complex and Large Scale Systems and Mexican Society for Operations Research. He has co-authored research articles in science citation index journals, conference proceedings, presentations and book chapters.
