Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization

Dr. Pandian VasantDr. Pandian Vasant is a senior lecturer at Department of Fundamental and Applied Sciences, Faculty of Science and Information Technology, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS in Malaysia. He holds PhD (UNEM, Costa Rica) in Computational Intelligence, MSc (UMS, Malaysia, Engineering Mathematics) and BSc (2nd Class Upper-Hons in Mathematics, UM, Malaysia) in Mathematics. His research interests include Soft Computing, Hybrid Optimization, Holistic Optimization, Innovative Computing and Applications. He has co-authored research papers and articles in national journals, international journals, conference proceedings, conference paper presentation, and special issues lead guest editor, lead guest editor for book chapters' project, conference abstracts, edited books, keynote lecture and book chapters (184 publications indexed in SCOPUS). In the year 2009, Dr. Pandian Vasant was awarded top reviewer for the journal Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier), awarded outstanding reviewer in the year 2015 for ASOC (Elsevier) journal and Top reviewer for Sentinels of Science: Computer Science (Oct. 2015 - Sept. 2016). He has 26 years of working experience at the various universities from 1989-2017. Currently he is Editor-in-Chief of IJCO, IJSIEC, IEM, IJEOE Associate Editor IJFSA, Editor of GJTO, member of American Mathematical Society, MERLIN, and NAVY Research Groups.  Professor Igor Litvinchev is a Professor at the Graduate Program in Systems Engineering (PISIS) of the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (FIME) at Nuevo Leon State University (UANL), Monterrey, Mexico and a Head of Department at Computing Center Russian Academy of Sciences (CCRAS), Moscow, Russia. He received his Doctor of Sciences Degree (Habilitation) in Systems Modeling and Optimization and a Ph.D. (Candidate of Sciences Degree) in Systems Theory and Operations Research, both from CCRAS. His research interests include Modeling, Optimization and Control of Large Scale Systems.  He is the co-founder of the 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. He is a member of Mexican Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. Professor 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 scientifc 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.