Meet the editors

Nodari Vakhania graduated with honors from the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Cybernetics, Tbilisi State University, Georgia, in 1983. In 1989, he entered the Ph.D. program in Computer Science at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, and obtained a degree in Mathematical Cybernetics in 1991. In 1992, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Russian Academy of Sciences and had a short-term visiting position at the University

of Saarbrucken, Germany. In 1995, he became a professor at the Centro de Investigación en Ciencias, State University of Morelos, Mexico. He also has an honorary position at the Institute of Computational Mathematics of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, where he received a doctoral degree in Mathematical Cybernetics in 2004. His research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, discrete optimization, computational complexity, and scheduling theory. He is an author of nearly 100 refereed research papers including more than 60 publications in highly ranked international journals. He has also worked with different scientific committees, including those at the Mexican Science Foundation CONACyT. He is an editorial board member and a referee for several international scientific journals. He has obtained research grants and honors in Germany, France, the Netherlands, United States, Russia, and Mexico, and has given more than forty invited talks throughout the world.

Mehmet Emin Aydin is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at, the University of the West of England. He obtained a BSc, MA, and Ph.D. from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul University, and Sakarya University, Turkey, respectively. His research interests include machine learning, intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, metaheuristics, swarm intelligence, resource planning, scheduling and optimization, and combina-

torial optimization. He has served as guest editor for special issues of peer-reviewed international journals. In addition to being a member of the advisory committees of many international conferences, Dr. Aydin is an editorial board member for various journals. He is currently a fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a member of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) College, UK, and a senior member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

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