Biographical note

Yucheng Dong received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics from Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, in 2002 and 2004, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in management from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 2008. He is currently a Professor with the Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. He has authored or coauthored more than 200 international journal papers in some refereed journals. He won the 2021 Clemen-Kleinmuntz Decision Analysis Best Paper Award (INFORMS) and 2022 IEEE

TFS Outstanding Paper Award (IEEE CIS). His current research interests include decision analysis and human dynamics. Prof. Dong is an Area Editor/Associate Editor of Computers and Industrial Engineering, Group Decision and Negotiation, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, and Information Fusion. He has been identified by Clarivate as a Highly Cited Researcher in the two fields of computer science and engineering.

Zhaogang Ding is currently an Associate professor at the School of Public Management (Emergency Management), Northwest University, China. He received his Ph.D. degree in

Management Science from Sichuan University in 2017. His research interests include opinion dynamics and social network analysis. He has published several international journal papers in IEEE Transactions on Big Data, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, Information Sciences, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, among others.

Gang Kou is a Distinguished Professor of Chang Jiang Scholars Program in Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, managing editor of International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, and managing editor-in-chief of Financial Innovation. He is also editors for the following journals: Decision Support Systems, European Journal of Operational Research, Technological and Economic Development of Economy. Previously, he was a professor of School of Management and Economics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, and a research scientist in Thomson Co., R&D. He received his Ph.D. in Information Technology from the College of Information Science & Technology, Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha; Master degree i n Dept of Computer Science, Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha; and B.S. degree in Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, China. He has published more than 100 papers in various peer-reviewed journals