248 About the Contributors Kemal Vatansever was born in Burgaz on August 29, 1979 and grew up into Bursa (Turkey). He studied Business Administration at the university of Osmangazi, Eskişehir (Turkey), from which he graduated in 2002. He received Master (2005) and Ph.D. (2010) degree in Business Administration at Dumlupınar University, Kütahya, Turkey. He worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Capital Markets and as a head of department at the same Department, Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey. He works as an Assoc. Prof. Dr. at the Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University in Turkey. His researches focuses on quantitative decision methods, multi criteria decision making, statistics and operational research. Yakup Akgül was born on March 22, 1977. He studied Department of Infor- mation Management at the university of Hacettepe, Ankara (Turkey), from which he graduated in 2001. He received Master (2010) and Ph.D. (2015) in Business Administration at Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey. He works as an Ass. Prof. at the Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, Alanya/ANTALYA, Turkey. * * * Aakash Aakash is a PhD Scholar in the Department of Operational Research, University of Delhi, India since 24 April 2017. He obtained his MPhil degree in Operational Research from the University of Delhi in 2017. He has one year of experience as a Lecturer in Raj Kumar Goel Engineering College, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has written few research papers which have been published in international journals and conference proceedings. His research areas are online marketing and operational research. About the Contributors Anu G. Aggarwal is working as Professor in the Department of Operational Research, University of Delhi. She obtained her Ph.D., M.Phil and M.Sc. degrees in Operational Research from the University of Delhi in year 2007, 1999 and 1996, respectively. She has published several papers in the area of Marketing Management and Theory of Reliability. Her research interests include modeling and optimization in Consumer Buying Behavior, Innovation-Diffusion modeling and Soft Computing Techniques. She has reviewed many research papers for reputed journals including IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, International journal of System Science, Int. J. of Production Research, Int. J. of Operational Research etc. Hasan Dinçer is an Associate Professor of finance at Istanbul Medipol Univer- sity, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Istanbul-Turkey. Dr. Dinçer has BAs in Financial Markets and Investment Management at Marmara University. He received PhD in Finance and Banking with his thesis entitled “The Effect of Changes on the Competitive Strategies of New Service Development in the Bank- ing Sector”. He has work experience in finance sector as portfolio specialist and his major academic studies focusing on financial instruments, performance evaluation, and economics. He is the executive editor of the International Journal of Finance and Banking Studies (IJFBS) and the founder member of the Society for the Study of Business and Finance (SSBF). Burak Efe is a Research Assistant at the Department of Industrial Engineering, Necmettin Erbakan University, Turkey. He received his MS and PhD in Industrial Engineering at Gazi University, Turkey. His current research interests include as- sembly line balancing, ergonomics, fuzzy logic, multi-criteria decision making, risk assessment. Cengiz Gazeloğlu completed his undergraduate education in 2010 in the field of statistics at Afyon Kocatepe University. In the same university, he completed his master’s degree in applied statistics in 2012. In 2014, he received his PhD degree in applied statistics from Anadolu University. He is currently the head of applied statistics department at Suleyman Demirel University. His areas of expertise include Structural Equation Model, Type II Regression, Data Mining, Fuzzy Logic, Scale Development. 249 About the Contributors Murat Kemal Keleş gained his B.S. degree from Wood Affairs Industrial En- gineering Department at Hacettepe University in 1994 with honorary degree. Until 2002, he worked as a production and planning engineer in the private sector. In 2002, he became a lecturer at Suleyman Demirel University in Isparta. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Business Administration of Süley- man Demirel University in 2007 and 2014, respectively. He is currently working at Keçiborlu Vocational School of Isparta University of Applied Sciences as a Dr. lecturer. His research areas are production management, marketing, planning, en- trepreneurship, Technoparks, Technology Transfer Offices, R & D, and Innovation. Himanshu Sharma is currently pursuing research in Operational Research from University of Delhi. He has obtained his M.Phil and M.Sc. degrees in Operational Research from University of Delhi in the year 2017 and 2015 respectively. His research interest includes marketing models in the area of electronic commerce, mobile commerce, online marketing, multi criteria decision making, path modelling. Cüneyt Toyganözü is an assistant professor of statistics at the Department of Econometrics, Suleyman Demirel University, Turkey. He studied mathematics for his B.Sc. degree in Turkey after that he had his M.Sc. degree in statistics at West- ern Michigan University and had M.A. degree in applied statistics at University of Pittsburgh. He granted his Ph.D. in applied mathematics. His research interests are time series analysis, extreme value theory, structural equation modeling and decision theory. Zeynep Hande Toyganözü has a PhD in Mathematics from Suleyman Demirel University, Turkey and she has been working as a research assistant of functional analysis section at the Department of Mathematics, at the same university. She stud- ies on some convergence types of sequences and sequences of functions. Also, she has some research papers about asymmetric metric spaces which is a subject used in some applied sciences such as information sciences. Recently, she is interested in decision theory and structural equation modeling. Alptekin Ulutaş is Assistant Professor in International Trade and Logistics Dept. at Cumhuriyet University in Sivas, Turkey. He has taken a PhD degree from Uni- versity of Wollongong in February 2016. He has been serving as assistant professor at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Cumhuriyet University since June 2017. So far, he has written 7 articles and 11 conference papers in total. His research area is optimization and multi-criteria decision making, fuzzy and stochastic programming. 250 About the Contributors Serhat Yüksel is associate professor of finance in İstanbul Medipol University. Before this position, he worked as a senior internal auditor for seven years in Fi- nansbank, Istanbul-Turkey and 1 year in Konya Food and Agriculture University as an assistant professor. Dr. Yüksel has a BS in Business Administration (in English) from Yeditepe University (2006) with full scholarship. He got his master degree from the economics in Boğaziçi University (2008). He also has a PhD in Banking from Marmara University (2015). His research interests lie in banking, finance and financial crisis. He has more than 70 publications (books, book chapters, scientific articles, etc.). 251.