Biographical note

Shaharuddin Salleh is currently a professor of computational mathematics at the Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He obtained his PhD at the same university, his MS at Portland State University, and BS at California State University Chico. Prof. Salleh is the author of six books, including two for Wiley-Interscience, Hoboken, New Jersey, in 2005 and 2008; and one for Kluwer Academic Publishers (now Springer) in 1999. His research interests are numerical computing, parallel computing, applied graph theory, and wireless sensor networks. Prof. Salleh has published over 150 technical papers in journals and conferences.

Zuraida Abal Abas is currently a senior lecturer at the Department of Industrial Computing, Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka. She obtained her PhD in mathematics at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; her MSc in operational research at London School of Economics, United Kingdom; and her BSc in industrial mathematics at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Her research interests are operational research, applied graph theory, modeling, and simulation.