Meet the editors

Tamás Bányai received a master's degree in 1993 and a Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of Miskolc, Hungary, where he is currently an associate professor. He has more than twenty-five years of teaching and research experience in the design and control of materials handling systems and supply chain management, with special emphasis on heuristic optimization of largescale systems. He has published more than 150 research papers,

book chapters, and conference proceedings. He has been a member and manager of more than fifty national and international R&D projects. Away from academia, Dr. Bányai's other interests include playing the piano and taking photographs.

Ágota Bányai was awarded an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Miskolc, Hungary, in 1993, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from the same institution in 1999. She is currently an associate professor at the Institute of Logistics, University of Miskolc. She has more than twenty years of teaching and research experience in the design and control of logistic systems and supply chain management, with a special empha-

sis on purchasing and distribution. She has worked in academia for nearly twenty-five years and has published more than 100 research papers, book chapters, and conference proceedings.

Ireneusz Kaczmar is an IT engineer with a master's degree in Economics. In 2011, he obtained a Ph.D. in Economics at the Faculty of Management and Social Communication, Jagiellonian University, Poland. He is currently an associate professor, teaching classes in economics and management at the Institute of Technical Sciences, East European State University, Poland. He is interested in quantitative research in management and

the application of computer simulations in the industry. He has about twenty years of teaching and research experience in the design of simulation models and multi-criteria decision-making systems. He is the author of many international scientific articles.
