Dr Dong-Ping Song is a professor of Supply Chain Management in the School of Management at the University of Liverpool. He is a Senior Member of IEEE; an Associate Editor for Transportation Research Part E and International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics. His research interests include the applications of mathematical modeling, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and simulation-based tools to various supply chain, logistics, and transportation systems, particularly in the area of maritime transport. He has published four books titled as “Optimal Control and Optimization of Stochastic Supply Chain Systems” by Springer (ISBN 9781447147237); “Optimising Supply Chain Performance: Information Sharing and Coordinated Management” by Palgrave Macmillan (ISBN 9781137501134); "Container Logistics and Maritime Transport" by Routledge (ISBN 9780367336509); and "Dual-Channel Supply Chain Decisions with Risk-Averse Behaviour" by World Scientific Publishing (ISBN 9781800610392).He has had papers published in international journals including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Transportation Research Part B/E/D, European Journal of Operational Research, and Naval Research Logistics. Dr Jing-Xin Dong is a professor of Operations Management and Supply Chain Management at Newcastle University Business School, UK. His research interests include operations research, port and shipping management, intelligent logistics and transport, and GPS/GIS. He is an associate editor for IET Intelligent Transport System and a member of Editorial Board for European Management Journal. He has co-authored a chapter “Empty Container Repositioning” in the book "Handbook of Ocean Container Transport Logistics" published by Springer (ISBN 9783319118901). He has published papers in Transportation Research Part B/E/D, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Annals of Operations Research, etc.
