**About the Editors**

**Marcela Quiroz-Castellanos** is a full-time researcher with the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute at the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa City, Mexico. Her research interests include: Combinatorial Optimization, Metaheuristics, Experimental Algorithms, Characterization and Data Mining. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Instituto Tecnologico de Tijuana, ´ Mexico. She studied engineering in computer systems and received the master's degree in Computer Science at the Instituto Tecnologico de Ciudad Madero, Mexico. She is a member of the Mexican ´ National Researchers System (SNI), and also a member of the directive committees of the Mexican Computing Academy (AMexComp) and the Mexican Robotics Federation (FMR).

**Juan Gabriel Ruiz Ruiz** is a Research Professor at the University of the Sierra Juarez (UNSIJ), Oaxaca, Mexico. His areas of interest are related to Evolutionary Computing, Human Factor, People-Centered Design, Semiotics, and Usability in Interactive Systems. In 2020, he served as General Chair of the 8th International Workshop on Numerical and Evolutionary Optimization (NEO). In 2017, he was General Chair of the 2nd Congress of Informatics and Technological Innovation (CIIT-2017) and Guest Editor for the special issue of the IPN Research in Computing Science magazine: Advances in Social Informatics and its Applications.

**Luis Gerardo de la Fraga** received the BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the Veracruz Institute of Technology (Veracruz, Mexico), in 1992, the MSc degree from the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics (INAOE), Puebla, Mexico, in 1994, and the PhD degree from the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, in 1998. He has developed his predoctoral work in the National Center of Biotechnology (CNB) in Madrid, Spain. Since 2000, he has been with the Computer Science Department at the Center of Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav) in Mexico City, Mexico. His research areas include Computer Vision, application of Evolutionary Algorithms, Applied Mathematics, and Network Security. He is very enthusiastic about open software and GNU/Linux systems. Dr. de la Fraga has published more than 35 articles in international journals, 6 book chapters, 2 books, and more than 55 articles in international conferences. He has graduated 28 MSc and 4 PhD students. He is member of the ACM and IEEE societies since 2005.

**Oliver Sch ¨utze** is Full Professor at the Cinvestav—IPN in Mexico City, Mexico. His main research interests are in numerical and evolutionary optimization. He is co-author of more than 160 publications including two monographs, five school textbooks, and 12 edited books. Two of his papers have received the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award (in 2010 and 2012). He is founder of the Numerical and Evolutionary Optimization (NEO) workshop series. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Mathematical and Computational Applications, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the journals *Engineering Optimization*, *Computational Optimization and Applications*, and *Mathematical Problems in Engineering*.
