**About the Special Issue Editors**

**Ana Jes ´us L ´opez Men ´endez** works as a full professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Oviedo. Her research activities are related to the regional modeling and forecasting, the measurement of economic inequality, and the socioeconomic impact of ICT. She has supervised several Ph.D. candidates and research projects. She has published in high-impact international journals, including *Economics Letters*, *Regional Studies*, *Applied Economics Letters*, *TEST*, *Journal of Forecasting*, *Social Indicators Research*, *Empirical Economics*, *Information & Management*, and *Entropy*. She has been a visiting fellow at universities in the UK, Hungary, Cuba, and Portugal, and she has worked as an expert evaluator for Spanish National Agencies such as OAPEE, SEPIE, ANECA, and CNEAI.

**Rigoberto P ´erez Su ´arez** works as a full professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Oviedo. He has published several books and articles in high-impact journals, such as *Kybernetes*, *Metrika*, *Empirical Economics*, *Regional Studies*, *Technological Forecasting and Social Change*, *IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems*, and *Entropy*. He has been involved in a wide variety of research projects related to information measures, econometric modeling and forecasting, and ICT impacts, mainly e-learning. He has been Head of the Department of Applied Economics and Director of the University of Oviedo Innovation Center and the G9 Shared Virtual Campus, including nine Spanish universities.
