Mubarak S. Al-Mutairi received the B.Sc. degree in systems engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in 1997, the M.A.Sc. degree in industrial and systems engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA, in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree in systems design engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, in 2007. From 1997 to 2000, he was an industrial engineer with the Saudi Arabia Oil Company (Aramco). He is currently an assistant professor in the computer science and engineering department and the assistant dean of Hafr Albatin Community College, Hafr Albatin, Saudi Arabia. His research interests include decision analysis, expert systems, information security, fuzzy logic, trust, and e-commerce. He is a member of the IEEE and the recipient of the distinguished teaching award of the University of Waterloo for the year 2007.
Lawan A. Mohammed is currently an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering Technology Department at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (HBCC Campus), Saudi Arabia. His main research interests are in the design of Authentication Protocols for both wired and wireless networks, Wireless Mobility, Group Oriented Cryptography, Smartcard Security, and Mathematical Programming.