Dr. Kusum Deep is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. Her research interests include numerical optimization, nature inspired optimization, computational intelligence, genetic algorithms, parallel genetic algorithms, and parallel particle swarm optimization. Dr. Madhu Jain is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. Her research interests include computer communications networks, performance prediction of wireless systems, mathematical modeling, and biomathematics. Dr. Said Salhi is Director of the Centre for Logistics & Heuristic Optimization (CLHO) at Kent Business School, University of Kent, UK. Prior to his appointment at Kent in 2005, Said served at the University of Birmingham’s School of Mathematics for 15 years, where in the latter years he acted as Head of the Management Mathematics Group. He obtained his BSc in Mathematics at Algiers’s University, and his MSc and PhD in OR at Southampton (Institute of Mathematics) and Lancaster (School of Management), respectively. Dr. Said has edited 6 special journal issues, chaired the European Working Group in Location Analysis in 1996 and recently the International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimisation (CO2016) in Kent, 1–3 September 2016. He has published over 100 papers in academic journals.
