Biographical note

Dr. Prasenjit Chatterjee is currently a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Dean (Research and Consultancy) at MCKV Institute of Engineering, West Bengal, India. He has over 5400 citations with an h-index of 38 and 120 research papers in various international journals and peer reviewed conferences. He has authored and edited more than 30 books on intelligent decision-making, fuzzy computing, supply chain management, optimization techniques, risk management and sustainability modelling. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Decision Analytics and Intelligent Computing. He has also been the Guest Editor of several special issues in different SCIE / Scopus / ESCI (Clarivate Analytics) indexed journals. Dr. Chatterjee is one of the developers of two multiple-criteria decision-making methods called Measurement of Alternatives and Ranking according to COmpromise Solution (MARCOS) and Ranking of Alternatives through Functional mapping of criterion sub-intervals into a Single Interval (RAFSI).
Dragan Pamucar is an Associate Professor at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Department of Operations Research and Statistics, Serbia. He received a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics with a specialization in multi-criteria modeling and soft computing techniques, from the University of Defence in Belgrade, Serbia, in 2013 and a M.Sc. degree from the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering in Belgrade in 2009. His research interest areas are computational intelligence, multi-criteria decision-making problems, neuro-fuzzy systems, fuzzy, rough, and intuitionistic fuzzy set theory, neutrosophic theory. He has authored/co-authored over 70 papers published in SCI-indexed international journals including experts’ systems with applications, computational intelligence, computers, and industrial engineering technical gazette, sustainability, symmetry, water, etc. Morteza Yazdani currently works at theUniversidad Internacional de Valencia, Madrid. Before, he worked as an Assistant Professor at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, ESIC University and Universidad Loyola Andalucia, Spain. He has also worked at the University of Toulouse and the European University of Madrid as a post-doctoral researcher. He participated in the editorial board of the International Journal of Production Management and Engineering and is Reviewer of several international journals such as Expert Systems with Applications, Journal of Cleaner Production, Soft Computing and Applied Soft Computing, etc. His main research areas are decision-making modeling and fuzzy decision system for humanitarian supply chain and energy systems. He has published over 50 research papers in high-impact journals and peer-reviewed conferences. Dilbagh Panchal is an Assistant Professor (Grade-I) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Haryana, India. He worksin reliability and maintenance engineering, fuzzy decision-making, supply chain management, and operation management. He obtained his Bachelor (Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India, in 2007 and Master’s in Manufacturing Technology in 2011 from Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, India. He has done his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, in 2016. He is presently supervising two Ph.D. scholars; five M. Tech dissertations have been guided by him, and two are in progress. He has published 25 research papers in SCI/Scopus-indexed journals. Five book chapters and one book have been also published by him under a reputed publisher. With this, six international conferences have been also attended by him. He also edited a book on advanced multi-criteria decision-making for addressing complex sustainability issues. He is currently a part of Associate Editors team of the International Journal of SystemAssurance and Engineering Management. He is currently serving as Active Reviewer of many reputed international journals.