Journal Contents: International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems (IJORIS)

Mouna Gargouri Mnif (ENSI, University of Manouba COSMOS Laboratory, Manouba, Tunisia), Sadok Bouamama (Higher College of Technology DMC, Dubai, Tunisia)

Jean Louis Kedieng Ebongue Fendji (University of Ngaoundéré, Yaounde, Cameroon), Chris Thron (Texas A&M University-Central Texas, USA)

Michael Sony (Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia), Mariappan Veerachamy Chettiar (Agnel Institute of Technology and Design, Bardez, India)

Gautam Choudhury (Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology, Guwahati, India), Lotfi Tadj (Department of Industrial Engineering, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)

P. Vijaya Laxmi (Department of Applied Mathematics, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India), Rajesh P. (Department of Mathematics, Vignan's Institute of Information Technology, Visakhapatnam, India)

Xin Wang (Saint Peter's University, USA), Xi Chen (Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China), Peng Zhao (Intelligentrabbit, LLC., USA)

Mohammad Ataullah (Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh), Mohammad Ekramol Islam (Department of Business Administration, Northern University Bangladesh), Md. Sharif Uddin (Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh)

Rex K Kincaid (College of William & Mary, USA), Robin M. Givens (Randolph Macon College, USA)

Stavros Ioannis Valsamidis (Department of Accounting and Finance, International Hellenic University, Kavala, Greece)

Akansha Gautam (Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi, Delhi, India), Indranath Chatterjee (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, J.K. Lakshmipat University, Jaipur, India & Department of Computer Engineering, Tongmyong University, Busan, South Korea)

Luong Dinh Le (Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), Dieu Ngoc Vo (Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, VNU-HCM, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), Sy T. Huynh (Southern Power Project Management Board, EVN-SPC, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), Tuan Minh Nguyen-Hoang (Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, VNU-HCM, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), Pandian Vasant (University of Technology Petronas, Malaysia)

Roohollah Younes Sinaki (Ohio University, USA), Azadeh Sadeghi (Ohio University, USA), Dustin S. Lynch (Ohio University, USA), William A. Young II (Ohio University, USA), Gary R. Weckman (Ohio University, USA)

Zhuoyi Zhao (Iowa State University, USA), K. Jo Min (Iowa State University, USA)

Omar Alharbi (Jazan University, Jizan, Saudi Arabia)

Mustafa Canbolat (SUNY Brockport, Brockport, USA), Kyongsei Sohn (SUNY Brockport, Brockport, USA), John T. Gardner (SUNY Brockport, Brockport, USA)

Leema N. (Anna University, Chennai, India), Khanna H. Nehemiah (Anna University, Chennai, India), Elgin Christo V. R. (Anna University, Chennai, India), Kannan A. (Anna University, Chennai, India)

Zhaoqiong Qin (University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, USA)

Berk Ayvaz (Istanbul Commerce University, Istanbul, Turkey), Ali Osman Kuşakcı (Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, Turkey)

Michael Sony (Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia), V. Mariappan (Agnel Institute of Technology and Design, Goa, India)

Zeynep Gergin (Istanbul Kultur University, Istanbul, Turkey), Nükhet Tunçbilek (Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey), Şakir Esnaf (Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey)

Jay Prakash (School of Computer and Systems Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India), T.V. Vijay Kumar (School of Computer and Systems Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India)

P. Senthil Kumar (Department of Humanities and Sciences, Navodaya Institute of Technology, Raichur, India)

Min Shi (Department of Management, California State University, Los Angeles, USA)

Sandhya (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Maharishi Markandeswar Deemed to be University Mullana, Ambala, India), Rajiv Goel (Department of Computer Science, Government College, Naraingarh, Ambala, India)

Ferhan Çebi (İstanbul Technical University, İstanbul, Turkey), Bersam Bolat (İstanbul Technical University, İstanbul, Turkey), Dilay Çelebi (İstanbul Technical University, İstanbul, Turkey)

Tarik Kucukdeniz (Department of Industrial Engineering, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey), Sakir Esnaf (Department of Industrial Engineering, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey), Engin Bayturk (American College of the Middle East, Eqaila, Kuwait)

Merve Cengiz Toklu (Sakarya University, Serdivan / Sakarya, Turkey), Harun Taşkın (Sakarya University, Serdivan / Sakarya, Turkey)

Iskender Peker (Department of Business Administration, Gumushane University, Gumushane, Turkey), Selcuk Korucuk (Department of Transportation Services, Gumushane University, Gumushane, Turkey), Birdogan Baki (Department of Business Administration, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey)

Gökhan Seçme (Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University, Nevşehir, Turkey), Lale Özbakır (Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey)

Fan Yina (Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, China), Lang Zixi (South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China), Ren Yuan (School of Electronics and Information, Shanghai Dianji University, Shanghai, China), Dong Ruiwen (Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, China)

Jing Yang (SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, USA), Rathindra Sarathy (Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA), Tao Wu (SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, USA)

Åse Jevinger (Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden), Paul Davidsson (Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden)

Daniel Osezua Aikhuele (Bells University of Technology, Ota, Nigeria)

Isik Guzelgoz (Department of Industrial Engineering, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Turkey), Sakir Esnaf (Department of Industrial Engineering, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Turkey), Tarik Kucukdeniz (Department of Industrial Engineering, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Turkey)

Mohammed Shurrab (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan), Ghaleb Y. Abbasi (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan), Osama Eljamal (Department of Earth System Science and Technology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan), Jalal T. Tanatrah (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan)

Thomas Y.S. Lee (Department of Information and Decision Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, US)

Satyendra Sharma (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Pilani, India), Srikanta Routroy (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Pilani, India), Rohan Desai (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Pilani, India)

Nayem Rahman (Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA)

Ahmed Haroun Sabry (OSIL Team LRI, National High School for Electricity and Mechanics (ENSEM), Casablanca, Morocco), Jamal Benhra (OSIL Team LRI, National High School for Electricity and Mechanics (ENSEM), Casablanca, Morocco), Abdelkabir Bacha (OSIL Team LRI, National High School for Electricity and Mechanics (ENSEM), Casablanca, Morocco)

Pavlos Delias (Department of Accounting and Finance, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology, Kavala, Greece), Kleanthi Lakiotaki (Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Heraklion, Greece)

N. Leema (College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, India), H. Khanna Nehemiah (College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, India), A. Kannan (College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, India)

Sérgio Guerreiro (Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal / INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal)

P. Senthil Kumar (PG and Research Department of Mathematics, Jamal Mohamed College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli, India)

Masoud Rabbani (School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran), Sina Keyhanian (Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran), Mojtaba Aryaee (École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers (ENSAM), Paris Tech University, Paris, France), Esmat Sangari (Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA)

Luis E. Castro (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA), Nazrul I. Shaikh (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA)

K.K. Aggarwal (Department of Operational Research, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delhi, Delhi, India), Arun Kumar Tyagi (Department of Operational Research, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delhi, Delhi, India)

Kaveh Sheibani (ORLab Analytics, Vancouver, Canada)

P. Senthil Kumar (PG and Research Department of Mathematics, Jamal Mohamed College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli, India)

Gulay Samatli-Pac (Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA), Wenjing Shen (Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA), Xinxin Hu (University of Houston – Downtown, Houston, USA)

Dalila Tayachi (Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia), Marwa Khemiri (Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia)

Jean C. Essila (Northern Michigan University, Marquette, USA)

Ebrahim Asadi-Gangraj (Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran), Sina Nayeri (Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran)

Barry R. Cobb (Department of Marketing, College of Business, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, USA)

Hadj Ahmed Bouarara (Department of Computer Science Tahar Moulay University of Saida Algeria, Saida Algeria, Algeria), Yasmin Bouarara (Department of Computer Science, Tahar Moulay University of Saida Algeria, Saida Algeria, Algeria)

Jun Sun (Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian, China), Ruben Xing (Department of Information Management and Business Analytics, School of Business, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, NJ, USA)

Yissam Lakhdar (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University Moulay Ismail, Meknes, Morocco), El Hassan Sbai (Ecole Supérieure de Technologie, University Moulay Ismail, Meknes, Morocco)

Jibran Hafeez (Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, NED University of Engineering & Technology Karachi, Pakistan), Rameez Khalid (Department of Management, IBA Karachi, Pakistan), Shahid Mir (Department of Management, IBA Karachi, Pakistan)

Georgios K.D. Saharidis (Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece & Kathikas Institute of Research & Technology, Kathikas, Cyprus), Michalis Golias (Department of Civil Engineering, Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute, University of Memphis, TN, USA)

Alexandros Diamantidis (Department of Economics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki, Greece), Stylianos Koukoumialos (Department of Business Administration, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece), Michael Vidalis (Department of Business Administration, University of the Aegean, Chios, Greece)

Nils-Hassan Quttineh (Department of Mathematics, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden), Helene Lidestam (Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden), Mårten Ahlstedt (Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden), Sven Olsson (Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden)

Christoforos Salagaras (Department of Financial and Management Engineering, University of the Aegean, Chios, Greece), Vasilis P. Koutras (Department of Financial and Management Engineering, University of the Aegean, Chios, Greece), Nikos S. Thomaidis (School of Economics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece), Vassilios Vassiliadis (Management and Decision Engineering Lab, Department of Financial and Management Engineering, University of the Aegean, Chios, Greece), Agapios N. Platis (Department of Financial and Management Engineering, University of the Aegean, Chios, Greece), Georgios Dounias (Management and Decision Engineering Lab, Department of Financial and Management Engineering, University of the Aegean, Chios, Greece), Constantine Kyriazis (CPS Athens S.A, Athens, Greece)

Athanasios Ballis (Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece), Fillipos Karapetis (TRAINOSE, Athens, Greece), Theocharis Ballis (National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece)

Pan-Hong Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China, School of Management, Hefei, China), Gong-Bing Bi (University of Science and Technology of China, School of Management, Hefei, China)

Anu G. Aggarwal (University of Delhi, Department of Operational Research, New Delhi, India), Chandra K. Jaggi (University of Delhi, Department of Operational Research, New Delhi, India), Nidhi Nijhawan (University of Delhi, Department of Operational Research, New Delhi, India)

Athanasios Ballis (National Technical University of Athens, Transportation Planning and Engineering, Athens, Greece), Fillipos Karapetis (TRAINOSE, Strategic Planning, Athens, Greece), Theocharis Ballis (Transport Systems Catapult, United Kingdom)

Animesh Biswas (University of Kalyani, Department of Mathematics, Kalyani, India), Nilkanta Modak (University of Kalyani, Department of Mathematics, Kalyani, India)

Gurupada Maity (Vidyasagar University, Department of Applied Mathematics with Oceanology and Computer Programming, Midnapore, India), Sankar Kumar Roy (Vidyasagar University, Department of Applied Mathematics with Oceanology and Computer Programming, Midnapore, India)

Jiayi Hu (Online Management Programmes, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom), Abubaker Haddud (Online Management Programmes, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom)

Ashish K. Sharma (Manoharbhai Patel Institute of Engineering and Technology, Department of Computer Technology, Gondia, India), Sunanda Khandait (KDK College of Engineering, Department of Information Technology, Nagpur, India)

Rajeev Kumar (Department of Business Administration, College of Business, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA, USA)

H.S. Shukla (DDU Gorakhpur University, Department of Mathematics, Gorakhpur, India), R.P. Tripathi (Graphic Era University, Department of Mathematics, Dehradun, India), Neha Sang (DDU Gorakhpur University, Department of Mathematics, Gorakhpur, India)

Mayank Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Guwahati, India), Anirban Kundu (Indian Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Delhi, India), Vipul Gupta (Haub School of Business, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Adam S. Maiga (Turner College of Business, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA, USA)

Alea M. Fairchild (Faculty of Economics and Business, KU Leuven Campus Brussels, Brussels, Belgium)

Iyad Alazzam (Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan), Mohammed Akour (Department of Computer Information Systems, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan), Shadi Banitaan (University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI, USA), Feras Hanandeh (Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan)

Mohammad Amin Zare (Management and Accountancy School, Allame Tabataba'ee University, Tehran, Iran), Mohammad Taghi Taghavi Fard (Management and Accountancy School, Allame Tabataba'ee University, Tehran, Iran), Payam Hanafizadeh (Management and Accountancy School, Allame Tabataba'ee University, Tehran, Iran)

L. O. E. Nwauwa (Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria), K. O. Adenegan (Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria), M. A. Y. Rahji (Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria), Oluwafemi Zaccheaus Olaniyi (Department of Agricultural Economics, Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology Igboora, Oyo State, Nigeria)

Nari Sivanandam Arunraj (Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Deggendorf, Germany), Diane Ahrens (Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Deggendorf, Germany), Michael Fernandes (Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Deggendorf, Germany)

Michael Racer (Marketing & Supply Chain Management Department, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA), Robin Lovgren (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, USA)

P. Senthil Kumar (PG & Research Department of Mathematics, Jamal Mohamed College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India), R. Jahir Hussain (PG & Research Department of Mathematics, Jamal Mohamed College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India)

L.O.E. Nwauwa (Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria), K.O. Adenegan (Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria), M.A.Y. Rahji (Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria), T.T. Awoyemi (Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria)

Prashant Jindal (Department of Applied Mathematics, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, India), Anjana Solanki (Department of Applied Mathematics, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, India)

Masoud Rabbani (School of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran), Mahsa Ghanbarpour Mamaghani (School of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran), Amir Farshbaf-Geranmayeh (School of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran), Mahsa Mirzayi (School of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran)

Zhaoqiong Qin (Department of Management, School of Business, Langston University, Langston, OK, USA), Charles Mambula (Department of Management, School of Business, Langston University, Langston, OK, USA), I-Lin Huang (Department of Management, School of Business, Langston University, Langston, OK, USA)

Mangey Ram (Department of Mathematics, Graphic Era University, Dehradun, India), Monika Manglik (Department of Mathematics, Graphic Era University, Dehradun, India)

Sidahmed Mokeddem (Laboratoire d'Informatique d'Oran (LIO), University of Oran 1 Ahmed Ben Bella, Oran, Algeria), Baghdad Atmani (Laboratoire d'Informatique d'Oran (LIO), University of Oran 1 Ahmed Ben Bella, Oran, Algeria)

Hector Chimeremeze Okere (Computer and Information Sciences Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Tronoh, Malaysia), Suziah Sulaiman (Computer and Information Sciences Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Tronoh, Malaysia), Dayang Rohaya Awang Rambli (Computer and Information Sciences Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Tronoh, Malaysia), Oi-Mean Foong (Computer and Information Sciences Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Tronoh, Malaysia)

Wayne M. Gilleo (Boeing, Chicago, IL, USA & Trident University, Cypress, CA, USA), Mary Lind (Trident University, Cypress, CA, USA)

Rasim M. Alguliyev (Institute of Information Technology, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan), Ramiz M. Aliguliyev (Institute of Information Technology, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan), Rasmiyya S. Mahmudova (Institute of Information Technology, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan)

H. K. Das (Department of Mathematics, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh)

Surinder Kumar (Department of Mechanical Engineering, SRCEM, Palwal, India), Tilak Raj (Department of Mechanical Engineering, YMCAUST, Faridabad, India)

Murat Erkoc (Industrial Engineering Department, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA), Salvador Romo-Fragoso (Industrial Engineering Department, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA)

Abey Kuruvilla (Department of Business, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI, USA), Giuseppe Paletta (Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica, Università della Calabria, Cosenza, Italy)

Eungcheol Kim (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Incheon National University, Incheon, South Korea), Manoj K. Jha (Department of Civil Engineering, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, USA), Min-Wook Kang (Department of Civil Engineering, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, USA)

Ning Yang (Parsons Corporation, New York, NY, USA), Shiaaulir Wang (Clarksville, MD, USA), Paul Schonfeld (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA)

Mohammed A. Hajeeh (Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Techno-Economics Division, Kuwait City, Kuwait)

Abdesslem Layeb (Department of Information and Applications, University of Constantine II, Constantine, Algeria)

Sara Sabba (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Constantine University 2, Constantine, Algeria), Salim Chikhi (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Constantine University 2, Constantine, Algeria)

Bernhard Lienland (University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany), Li Zeng (University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany)

K. Jeganathan (University of Madras, Chennai, India), N. Anbazhagan (Department of Mathematics, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India), B. Vigneshwaran (Department of Mathematics, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, India)

Soumendra Kumar Patra (Department of Management Studies, Regional College of Management (Autonomous), Bhubaneswar, India), Tapan Kumar Lenka (Rajdhani College of Engineering and Management, Odisha, India), Er. Purna Chandra Ratha (Department of Business Administration, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India)

Alex J. Ruiz-Torres (Facultad de Administración de Empresas, Universidad de Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras, San Juan, PR, USA), Giuseppe Paletta (Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica, Universita` della Calabria, Cosenza, Italy), Eduardo Perez-Roman (Ingram School of Engineering, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA)

Thomas Yew Sing Lee (Department of Information and Decision Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA)

Hayden Beauchamp (Energy Solutions, Richland, WA, USA), Clara Novoa (Ingram School of Engineering, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA), Farhad Ameri (Department of Engineering Technology, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA)

Yonit Barron (Department of Statistics, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel)

Ljiljana Kašćelan (Faculty of Economics, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro), Vladimir Kašćelan (Faculty of Economics, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro)

Abdelhak Mezghiche (Département de Recherche Opérationnelle, Université des Sciences et de la Technologie Houari Boumediène, Algiers, Algeria), Mustapha Moulaï (Département de Recherche Opérationnelle, Université des Sciences et de la Technologie Houari Boumediène, Algiers, Algeria), Lotfi Tadj (Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Vancouver, BC, Canada)

Sunil Pratap Singh (Department of Physics and Computer Science, Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University), Agra, India), Manoj Kumar Chauhan (Faculty of Management and Computer Applications, R. B. S. Management Technical Campus, Agra, India), Preetvanti Singh (Department of Physics and Computer Science, Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University), Agra, India)

Dang Thi Thu Hien (Faculty of Information Technology, University of Transport and Communications, Hanoi, Vietnam), Hoang Xuan Huan (Faculty of Information Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam), Le Xuan Minh Hoang (Faculty of Information Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam)

Monalisha Pattnaik (Department of Business Administration, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India)

Wen-Yao Lu (Department of Interior Design, China University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan), Ming-Che Lin (Department of Interior Design, China University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan), Ting-Xu Chen (Department of Interior Design, China University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan)

Emmanouil Stiakakis (Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece), Garyfallos Arampatzis (Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, Democritus University of Thrace, Orestiada, Greece)

Panagiotis Adamidis (Department of Information Technology, Alexander Τechnological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece), Georgios Kynigopoulos (Department of Information Technology, Alexander Τechnological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece)

Odysseas Moschidis (Department of Business Administration, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece), Jason Papathanasiou (Department of Business Administration, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece)

Georgios N. Aretoulis (Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece), Christoforos H. Triantafyllidis (Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece)

Elias Pimenidis (School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering, University of East London, London, UK), Christos K. Georgiadis (Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece)

Rajwinder Singh (School of Management Studies, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India), H. S. Sandhu (Department of Commerce and Business Management, Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU), Amritsar, Punjab, India), B. A. Metri (Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, Haryana, India), R. S. Ghera (Sai Institute of Technology, Amritsar, Punjab, India)

Chialin Chen (Queen's School of Business, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada), Samson X. Zhao (Oliver Wyman Financial Services, Toronto, Canada)

Georgios K. D. Saharidis (Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece & Kathikas Institute of Research and Technology, Kathikas, Cyprus), Maria Boile (Center for Research and Technology Hellas, Hellenic Institute of Transport, Thessaloniki, Greece), Georgios Giannopoulos (Center for Research and Technology Hellas, Hellenic Institute of Transport, Thessaloniki, Greece & Transport Engineering Laboratory, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece), Georgios Kolomvos (European Dynamics S. A., Marousi, Greece)

Athena Tsirimpa (University of the Aegean, Lesvos, Greece), Amalia Polydoropoulou (University of the Aegean, Lesvos, Greece)

Athanasios Galanis (University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece), Anestis Papanikolaou (Hellenic Institute of Transport, Thessaloniki, Greece), Nikolaos Eliou (University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece)

Eleonora Papadimitriou (National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece), George Yannis (National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece), John Golias (National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece)

Loukas Dimitriou (National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece), Antonios Kaltsounis (National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece), Antony Stathopoulos (National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece)

Jarrett Chapman (North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, USA), Lauren B. Davis (North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, USA), Funda Samanlioglu (Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey), Xiuli Qu (North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, USA)

Angel A. Juan (Department of Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunication, Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain), Javier Faulin (Department of Statistics & Operations Research, Public University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain), Tolga Bektas (University of Southampton, Southampton, UK), Carlos A. Méndez (Institute of Technological Development for the Chemical Industry, National University of Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina)

Rui Zhang (Department of Decision, Operations and Information Technologies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA), Rex Kincaid (Department of Mathematics, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA)

John Robinson (P, PG & Research Department of Mathematics, Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli, India), Henry Amirtharaj (E.C., PG & Research Department of Mathematics, Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli, India)

Rodolfo G. Dondo (National University of Litoral, Institute of Technological Development for the Chemical Industry, Santa Fe, Argentina), Carlos A. Mendez (Instituto National University of Litoral, Institute of Technological Development for the Chemical Industry, Santa Fe, Argentina)

K. Chandrasekaran (Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India), Sishaj P. Simon (Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India)

Gregory Gurevich (Industrial Engineering and Management Department, Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer-Sheva, Israel), Yuval Cohen (Afeka Tel-Aviv College of Engineering, Tel-Aviv, Israel), Baruch Keren (Industrial Engineering and Management Department, Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer-Sheva, Israel)

Ambarish M. Acharya (Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, USA), Daniela S. Gonzales (Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, USA), Sandra D. Eksioglu (Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, USA), Sumesh Arora (Mississippi Technology Alliances, Ridgeland, MS, USA)

Joseph Hubert Wilck IV (Department of Engineering, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA), Tom M. Cavalier (The Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA)

Sumana Das (SQC and Operations Research Division, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India), Sujit Kumar Majumdar (SQC and Operations Research Division, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India)

Mohammed A. Hajeeh (Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Safat, Kuwait)

Rolf Färe (Department of Economics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA), Hirofumi Fukuyama (Faculty of Commerce, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan), Shawna Grosskopf (Department of Economics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA), William L. Weber (Department of Economics and Finance, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO, USA)

Mohamad K. Hasan (Department of Quantitative Methods and Information Systems, College of Business Administration, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait), Xuegang Ban (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA)

Bin Zhou (College of Business, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TX, USA), Zhongxian Wang (School of Business, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ, USA)

Mohd. Nishat Faisal (Department of Management and Marketing, College of Business & Economics, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar)

Kufre Bassey (Statistics Department, Central Bank of Nigeria, Corporate Head Office, Abuja, Nigeria), Polycarp Chigbu (School of Postgraduate Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria)

Yoo-Taek Lee (Operations and Technology Management Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA), Sung-Yong Ryu (Department of Business Administration, Soon Chun Hyang University, Ansan, Republic of Korea), Kathleen E. McKone-Sweet (Technology, Operations, and Information Management Division, Babson College, Babson Park, MA, USA)

Enzo Sauma (Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile)

Yiannis G. Smirlis (IT & Infrastructure Division, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece), Dimitris K. Despotis (Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece)

Julian Scott Yeomans (Department of Operations Management & Information Systems, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada), Yavuz Gunalay (Department of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey)

S.A. Oke (Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria), O.E. Charles-Owaba (Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria), A.E. Oluleye (Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria)

William P. Fox (Department of Defense Analysis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA)

William P. Fox (Department of Defense Analysis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA), John Binstock (Department of Information Systems (C4I), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA), Mike Minutas (Department of Information Systems (C4I), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA)

Michael Jaye (Department of Defense Analysis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA), Robert Burks (Operations Research Department, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA)

Chris Arney (Department of Mathematics,United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, USA), Zachary Silvis (United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, USA), Matthew Thielen (United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, USA), Jeff Yao (United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, USA)

Donald P. Gaver (Operations Research Department, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA), Patricia A. Jacobs (Operations Research Department, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA)

Sotiris Papadopoulos (MOVES Institute, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA), Francisco Baez (MOVES Institute, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA & U.S. Army TRADOC Analysis Center, Monterey, CA, USA), Jonathan Alt (U.S. Army TRADOC Analysis Center, Monterey, CA, USA & MOVES Institute, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA), Christian Darken (MOVES Institute, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA)

Vasileios Zeimpekis (Department of Financial & Management Engineering, University of the Aegean, Chios, Greece), Ioannis Minis (Department of Financial & Management Engineering, University of the Aegean, Chios, Greece), George M. Giaglis (Department of Management Science & Technology, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece), Kostis Mamassis (Department of Financial & Management Engineering, University of the Aegean, Chios, Greece)

Tsuwei Tan (Department of Applied Mathematics, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA), Hong Zhou (Department of Applied Mathematics, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA)

Patrick J. Driscoll (Department of Systems Engineering, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY, USA), Harry Newton (Innovative Decisions, Inc., Vienna, VA, USA), Russell Mosier (Innovative Decisions, Inc., Vienna, VA, USA)

Durai Sundaramoorthi (Olin Business School, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO, USA)

Diwakar Shukla (Department of Mathematics & Statistics, H. S. Gour Central University, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India), Uttam Kumar Khedlekar (Department of Mathematics & Statistics, H. S. Gour Central University, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India), Raghovendra Pratap Singh Chandel (Department of Mathematics & Computer Sciences, Government Model Science College, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India)

Majid Azadi (Department of Industrial Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran), Reza Farzipoor Saen (Department of Industrial Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran)

Marcel Büther (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany), Dirk Briskorn (Universität zu Köln, Germany)

Sutapa Samanta (Maryland State Highway Administration, USA), Manoj K. Jha (Morgan State University, USA)

Wenjing Shen (Drexel University, USA)

Michael J. Hirsch (Raytheon Company, USA), Héctor J. Ortiz-Peña (CUBRC, USA), Chris Eck (Raytheon Company, USA)

R. P. Tripathi (Uttarakhand Technical University and Dehradun Institute of Technology, India), S. S. Misra (Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), India)

Hirofumi Fukuyama (Fukuoka University, Japan), William L. Weber (Southeast Missouri State University, USA)

Deniz Mungan (Cyprus Mobile Telecommunication Ltd, Cyprus), Junfang Yu (Southern Methodist University, USA), Bhaba R. Sarker (Louisiana State University, USA), Mohammad Anwar Rahman (University of Southern Mississippi, USA)

Rafael Diaz (Old Dominion University, USA), Barry Charles Ezell (Old Dominion University, USA)

Luiz Felipe Scavarda (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Monica Barros (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Annibal José Scavarda (American University of Sharjah, UAE, and Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil), Pedro M. Reyes (Baylor University, USA), Patrick Jaska (University of Mary Hardin Baylor, USA)

Xiang Li (East China Normal University, China), Christophe Claramunt (Naval Academy Research Institute, France), Xihui Zhang (University of North Alabama, USA), Yingping Huang (University of North Alabama, USA)

Ragip Ufuk Bilsel (The Boston Consulting Group, Turkey), A. Ravi Ravindran (Penn State University, USA)

Min Shi (California State University, Los Angeles, USA), Wei Yu (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA)

Rafael Diaz (Old Dominion University, USA), Barry Charles Ezell (Old Dominion University, USA)

Durai Sundaramoorthi (Washington University in St. Louis, USA), Andrew Coult (Missouri Western State University, USA), Dung Hai Nguyen (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)

Sarbjit Singh (Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur, India)

Hengameh Tahmasebi (Boeing, Seattle, WA, USA), Junfang Yu (Department of Engineering Management, Information & Systems, Lyle School of Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA), Bhaba R. Sarker (Department of Industrial Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA)

Madjid Tavana (School of Business, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA, USA), Narges Yousefpoor (Department of Commercial Management, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran)

Yuval Cohen (Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv Afeka College of Engineering, Open University of Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel), Arik Sadeh (Technology Management Department, Holon Academic Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel), Ofer Zwikael (Research School of Management, Marketing and International Business, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia)

Yingping Huang (Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, College of Business, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, USA), Xihui Zhang (Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, College of Business, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, USA), Paulette S. Alexander (Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, College of Business, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, USA)

Zhaoqiong Qin (Department of Applied Engineering Technology, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, USA)

Ibrahim S. Kurtulus (School of Business, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA)

Ibrahim Almojel (Stanford University, USA), Jim Matheson (SmartOrg, USA), Pelin Canbolat (Stanford University, USA)

Payam Hanafizadeh (Allameh Tabataba’i University, Iran), Abolfazl Ghaemi (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran), Madjid Tavana (La Salle University, USA)

Yefim H. Michlin (Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Israel), Dov Ingman (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel), Yoram Dayan (ELTA Systems Ltd., Israel)

Heping Liu (North Dakota State University, USA), Yanli Chen (Auburn University, USA)

Ali Ebrahimnejad (Islamic Azad University, Qaemshahr Branch, Iran), Seyed Hadi Nasseri (Mazandaran University, Iran), Sayyed Mehdi Mansourzadeh (Islamic Azad University, Jouybar Branch, Iran)

Huachun Xiong (Tsinghua University, China), Jinxing Xie (Tsinghua University, China), Bo Niu (China Railway Express Co., China)

Seyed Hadi Nasseri (University of Mazandaran, Iran), Ali Ebrahimnejad (Islamic Azad University, Qaemshahr Branch, Iran)

Sutapa Samanta (Maryland State Highway Administration, USA), Manoj K. Jha (Morgan State University, Baltimore, USA)

Satadal Ghosh (Indian Institute of Science, India), Sujit Kumar Majumdar (Indian Statistical Institute, India)

Mohammed Hajeeh (Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait)

Li Pan (The University of Hong Kong, China), Sydney C. K. Chu (The University of Hong Kong, China), Guangyue Han (The University of Hong Kong, China), Joshua Zhexue Huang (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, China)

Gary H. Chao (Kutztown University, USA), Maxwell K. Hsu (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA), Carol Scovotti (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA)

Adel Hatami-Marbini (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Saber Saati (Islamic Azad University, Iran), Madjid Tavana (La Salle University, USA)

S. R. Singh (D. N. College, India), Diksha Bhatia (D. N. College, India)

Mohammadreza Alirezaee (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran), Mohsen Afsharian (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran)

R. P. Tripathi (Uttarkhand Technical University (DIT), India)

Subhro Mitra (University of North Texas at Dallas, USA), Joseph Szmerekovsky (North Dakota State University, USA), Nikita Barabanov (North Dakota State University, USA)

Avijit Maji (Maryland State Highway Administration, USA), Manoj K. Jha (Morgan State University, USA)

Ue-Pyng Wen (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan), Yun-Chu Chen (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan), Kam-Hong Cheung (MGM Macau, China)

Amit Kumar (Thapar University, India), Amarpreet Kaur (Thapar University, India)

Hyoung-Gon Lee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), Edmund W. Schuster (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), Stuart J. Allen (Marysville, USA), Pinaki Kar (New York, USA)

William P. Fox (Naval Postgraduate School, USA)

Ue-Pyng Wen (National Tsing Hua University, ROC), Yi Chen (VisEra Technologies Company, ROC)

Michael Ferris (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), Henry X. Liu (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Xugang Ye (Johns Hopkins University, USA), Shih-Ping Han (Johns Hopkins University, USA), Anhua Lin (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)

Lizhi Wang (Iowa State University, USA), Nan Kong (Purdue University, USA)

Mark Frost (Fiserv, USA), Jeff Kennington (Southern Methodist University, USA), Anusha Madhavan (Southern Methodist University, USA)

Yew Sing (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)

Mohammed Hajeeh (Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait)

Nurcin Celik (The University of Arizona, USA), Esfandyar Mazhari (The University of Arizona, USA), John Canby (Schlumberger, Indonesia), Omid Kazemi (The University of Arizona, USA), Parag Sarfare (NetApp Inc., USA), Majed S. Al-Otaibi (The University of Arizona, USA), Young-Jun Son (The University of Arizona, USA)

Ying Zhou (Iowa State University, USA), Lizhi Wang (Iowa State University, USA)

Xugang Ye (Johns Hopkins University, USA), Carey E. Priebe (Johns Hopkins University, USA)

Ching-Ter Chang (Chang Gung University, Taiwan), Cheng-Yuan Ku (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan), Hui-Ping Ho (National Chung Cheng University and Chienkuo Technology University, Taiwan)

Dimitrios M. Emiris (University of Piraeus, Greece), Charis A. Marentakis (University of Piraeus, Greece)

Lijian Chen (University of Louisville, USA), Dustin J. Banet (University of Louisville, USA)

Alan W. Johnson (Air Force Institute of Technology, USA), Theodore Heiman (388th Fighter Wing, USA), Martha Cooper (The Ohio State University, USA), Raymond R. Hill (Air Force Institute of Technology, USA)

Saurav Datta (National Institute of Technology - Rourkela, India), Goutam Nandi (Jadavpur University, India), Asish Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University, India), Pradip Kumar Pal (Jadavpur University, India)

Jairo R. Montoya-Torres (Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia), Libardo S. Gómez-Vizcaíno (Fundación Centro de Investigación en Modelación Empresarial del Caribe, Colombia), Elyn L. Solano-Charris (Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia), Carlos D. Paternina-Arboleda (Universidad del Norte, Colombia)

Charis A. Marentakis (University of Piraeus, Greece), Dimitrios M. Emiris (University of Piraeus, Greece)