Biographical note

Dr. Manoj Sahni is working as an Associate Professor and Head at the Department of Mathematics, School of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. He has more than eighteen years of teaching and research experience. He holds an M.Sc. degree in Mathematics from Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University), Agra, M.Phil. from I.I.T. Roorkee, and a Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (Deemed University), Noida, India. He has published more than 80 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and chapters with reputed publishers like Springer, Elsevier, etc. He has published five research books with reputed publishers like Springer, Taylor & Francis and others. He also serves as Reviewer for many international journals of repute. He is also an editorial board member of many reputed journals. He has conducted the first, second, and third International Conferences on Mathematical Modeling, Computational Techniques, and Renewable Energy in 2020, 2021, and 2022, respectively. He has contributed to the scientific committee of several conferences and associations. He has delivered many expert talks at the national and international levels. He has organized many seminars, workshops, and short-term training programs at PDEU and various other universities. He has also organized a special Symposium at an International Conference (AMACS2018) on Fuzzy Set Theory: New Developments and Applications to Real-Life Problems held in London, UK, in 2018. He is a Member of many international professional societies, including the American Mathematical Society, SIAM, MAA, IEEE, Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics, Indian Mathematical Society, IAENG, and many more.

Dr. José M. Merigó (Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science) is Full Professor at the School of Systems, Management, and Leadership at the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Technology Sydney and Part-Time Full Professor at the Department of Management Control and Information Systems at the School of Economics and Business at the University of Chile. Previously, he was Senior Research Fellow at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester (UK), and Assistant Professor at the Department of Business Administration at the University of Barcelona (Spain). He holds a Master's and a Ph.D. degrees in Business Administration from the University of Barcelona. He also holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Lund University (Sweden). He has published more than 400 articles in journals, books, and conference proceedings, including journals such as Information Sciences, European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Expert Systems with Applications, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Applied Soft Computing, Computers & Industrial Engineering, and Knowledge-Based Systems. He has also publishedseveral books with Springer and with World Scientific. He is on the editorial board of several journals including Applied Soft Computing, Technological and Economic Development of Economy, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, Kybernetes and Economic Computation, and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research. He has also been Guest Editor for several international journals, Member of the scientific committee of several conferences, and Reviewer in a wide range of international journals. Recently, Thomson & Reuters (Clarivate Analytics) has distinguished him as Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science (2015-2017). He is currently interested in decision making, aggregation operators, computational intelligence, and bibliometrics and applications in business and economics.

Dr. Walayat Hussain is the Head of the Discipline of Information Technology at Peter Faber Business School, Australian Catholic University, Australia. He has an academic and industry experience of more than 18 years. Before joining the ACU, he was a Lecturer at Victoria University Melbourne, Lecturer and a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney for seven years. He worked as an Assistant Professor and postgraduate program coordinator at the department of Computer Science at BUITEMS University for many years. He holds a PhD, Master, Postgraduate Diploma, and Bachelor's (Hons.) degrees in Computing and Information Systems. Walayat's research areas are Service Computing, Business Intelligence, AI, Information Systems, Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Decision Support Systems. He has contributed to theory and application and developed a new approach for making an optimal informed decision in complex systems. He has published more than 80 high-quality research document in various top-ranked ERA-A*, A, ABDC- A, JCR/SJR Q1 journals. He is currently an Associate Editors for the IET- Communications and Forecasting, international journals, and has been guest editors for more than 25 international journals.  He has served as the General Chair. Co-General Chair in multiple international conferences. He is a fellow of European Alliance for Innovation.  He has won multiple national and international research awards and recognitions. He is the recipient of the prestigious National Research Award by the Government of Oman 2021, the VUBS Award for Excellence in Research 2022, the Best Paper Award at IoTaaS Australia 2021, the Best Paper Awards at 3PGCIC 2015, 2016 Poland, South Korea, and FEIT HDR Publication Award by the UTS Australia, 2016.