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About the Contributors 401 About the Contributors Peng-Yeng Yin received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in computer science from National Chiao Tung University (Hsinchu, Taiwan). From 1993 to 1994, he was a visiting scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland (College Park, MD, USA) and in the Department of Radiology at Georgetown University (Washington D.C., USA). In 2000, he was a visiting professor in the Visualization and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (VISLab) in the Department of Electrical Engi- neering at the University of California (Riverside, USA). From 2006 to 2007, he was a visiting profes- sor at Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado. From 2001 to 2003, he was a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ming Chuan University (Taoyuan, Taiwan). Since 2003, he has been a professor of the Department of information Management, National Chi Nan Uni- versity (Nantou, Taiwan). Dr. Yin received the Overseas Research Fellowship from Ministry of Educa- tion (1993) and the Overseas Research Fellowship from National Science Council (2000). He has received the best paper award from the Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society of Taiwan. He is a member of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society and listed in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, and Who’s Who in Asia. Dr. Yin has published more than 100 academic articles in reputable journals and conferences including IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Trans. on Education, Pattern Recognition, Annals of Operations Research, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, etc. He has been on the editorial board of the International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, the Open Artificial Intelligence Journal, the Open Artificial Intelligence Letters, the Open Artificial Intelligence Reviews and served as a program committee member in many international conferences. His current research interests include artificial intelligence, evolutionary computation, metaheuristics, pattern rec- ognition, content-based image retrieval, relevance feedback, machine learning, computational intelligence, operations research, and computational biology. * * * Bahram Alidaee received the B.S. degree from the University of Tehran, Iran, the M.B.A. degree from the University of North Texas and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Arlington. He is currently a professor of operations management at the School of Business Administration, the Univer- sity of Mississippi. His research interests include applied optimization, applied graph theory, heuristic programming, complex systems, game theory and cost allocations. He is member of INFORMS, DSI, POMS, APICS, ISM, and IEEE Computer Society. About the Contributors Noureddine Bouhmala was born in Casablanca, Morocco. He obtained his MSc degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne in 1994 and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, in 1998. He is presently an Associate Professor at Vestfold University College and Associate Professor II at the University of Agder. His research interests include Meta-Heuristic Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization, Parallel Computing, and Data Mining. He is also an Associate Professor II in the Department of ICT, University of Agder, Norway. Professor Edmund Burke is Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Nottingham and he leads the Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning (ASAP) Research Group in the School of Computer Science. He is a member of the EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team for Mathematics. He is a Fellow of the Operational Research Society and the British Computer Society and he is a member of the UK Computing Research Committee (UKCRC). Prof. Burke is Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Scheduling, Area Editor (for Combinatorial Optimisation) of the Journal of Heuristics, Associate Editor of the INFORMS Journal on Computing, Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and a member of the Editorial Board of Memetic Computing. He is also the Research Direc- tor of EventMAP Ltd. and a Director of Aptia Solutions Ltd, both of which are spin out companies from the ASAP group. Prof. Burke has played a leading role in the organisation of several major international conferences in his research field in the last few years. He has edited/authored 14 books and has published over 180 refereed papers. He has been awarded 47 externally funded grants worth over £11M from a variety of sources including EPSRC, ESRC, BBSRC, EU, Research Council of Norway, East Midlands Development Agency, HEFCE, Teaching Company Directorate, Joint Information Systems Committee of the HEFCs and commercial organisations. This funding portfolio includes being the Principal Investiga- tor on a recently awarded EPSRC Science and Innovation award of £2M, an EPSRC grant of £2.6M to investigate the automation of the heuristic design process and an EPSRC platform grant worth £423K. Yann Cooren, was born in Bordeaux, France in 1982. He received his engineering degree and his master from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Électronique, d’Informatique et de Radiocommunications de Bordeaux (ENSEIRB). In 2008, he obtained his PhD from the Laboratoire d’Images, Signaux et Sys- tèmes Intelligents (LiSSi) of the University of Paris 12. His main research interests are metatheuristics and, particularly, the Particle Swarm Optimization method. Joaquín Derrac received the M.Sc. degree in computer science from the University of Granada, Granada, Spain, in 2008. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, Granada, Spain. His research interests include data min- ing, lazy learning and evolutionary algorithms. Rolf Drechsler received his diploma and Dr. phil. nat. degree in computer science in 1992 and 1995, respectively. Before he became full professor at the University of Bremen in 2001, he was with the Corporate Technology Department of the Siemens AG, Munich. His main research areas are in the development and design of data structures and algorithms with a focus on circuit and system design. He published over 150 scientific papers and more than 10 books in the areas of testing, verification, synthe- sis and reasoning technology. He was a member of the program committees of numerous international conferences including DATE, DAC, ICCAD, VLSI Design, ASP-DAC and served as topic chair for 402 About the Contributors formal verification for the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) and the Design Automation Conference (DAC). He received best paper awards from the Haifa Verification Conference (HVC) in 2006 and from the Forum on Specification and Design Languages (FDL) in 2007 and 2010. Kourosh Eshghi is Dean of Industrial Engineering Department at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. He received his Ph.D. in the field of Operations Research from University of Toronto in 1997. His research interests include graph theory, integer programming and combinatorial optimization. He is the author of 2 books and over 50 journal papers. Mourad Fakhfakh was born in Sfax-Tunisia in 1969. He received the engineering and the PhD degrees from the national engineering school of Sfax Tunisia in 1996 and 2006 respectively. From 1998 to 2004 he worked in the Tunisian National Society of Electricity and Gas (STEG) as a chief of the technical intervention service. In September 2004, he joined the higher institute of electronics and communications (ISECS) where he is working as an assistant professor. Since 2002 he has been with the electronics and information technology laboratory (LETI/ENIS) where he is currently a researcher. His research interests include current mode techniques, symbolic analysis techniques, analog design automation, and optimization techniques. Salvador García received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Granada, Granada, Spain, in 2004 and 2008, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Jaén, Jaén, Spain. His research interests include data mining, data reduction, data complexity, imbalanced learning, statistical inference and evolutionary algorithms. Dr. Zong Woo Geem is an academic advisor and faculty of a newly established academic institute named iGlobal University located at Annandale, Virginia, USA. He is an inventor of music-inspired meta-heuristic algorithm, Harmony Search, which has been successfully applied to various optimiza- tion problems in many fields such as computer science, electrical engineering, civil and environmental engineering, mechanical and chemical engineering, bio and medical applications, real world applications, etc. He has researched at Virginia Tech, Johns Hopkins University and University of Maryland at Col- lege Park, publishing nearly one hundred technical papers including three edited books from Springer. Dr. Geem is also a concert soloist, who has sung at Washington National Cathedral and Basilica of the National Shrine in Washington DC. Dr. Fred Glover is the Chief Technology Officer in charge of algorithmic design and strategic plan- ning initiatives for OptTek Systems, Inc., heading the development of commercial computer software systems currently serving more than 80,000 users in the United States and abroad. He also holds the title of Distinguished Professor at the University
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