**About the Editors**

#### **Marek Laciak**

Marek Laciak is a Professor at the Institute of Control and Informatization of Production Processes, Faculty BERG at the Technical University of Kosice. In 2022, he defended his inaugural thesis and received a professorship in automation. He is the author and co-author of three scientific monographs and 150 papers published in reputed journals and conferences. He has 307 citations with an h-index of 10, according to WoS (https://publons.com/wos-op/researcher/2694333/ marek-laciak/). He has participated in 21 national and international research projects, in 3 of which he was the principal investigator. He has been the supervisor for 63 bachelor's and diploma theses and 2 doctoral theses. He is a member of the program committee of the International Carpathian Control Conference, the committee of the Slovak Association of Applied Cybernetics and Informatics (SSAKI), and the committee of the Czech & Slovak Society for Simulation (CSSS). His research interests include: modeling, monitoring, and controlling technological processes; indirect measurement systems; the optimization of processes; and underground coal gasification.

#### **J ´an Kaˇcur**

Jan Ka ´ cur is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Control and Informatization of ˇ Production Processes, Faculty BERG at the Technical University of Kosice. From a professional point of view, he is dedicated to automation and the design of control systems. He is also devoted to mathematical modeling based on machine learning. His research interests focus on underground coal gasification and steelmaking. He is the author and co-author of 61 publications indexed by WoS (see https://publons.com/wos-op/researcher/2678181/jan-kacur/) and 1 monograph. He has 305 citations with an h-index of 10, according to WoS. He has participated in 18 national and international research projects. He is a member of the program committee of the International Carpathian Control Conference and a member of the Slovak Association of Applied Cybernetics and Informatics (SSAKI).

#### **Milan Durd ´an**

Milan Durdan is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Control and Informatization of ´ Production Processes, Faculty BERG at the Technical University of Kosice. He completed his habilitation thesis on earth resources extracting and processing in 2018 at the Technical University in Kosice. He is the author of a monograph entitled Annealing process control of steel coils, which ˇ focuses on the proposal of models for calculating the temperature inside an annealed coil. He is also the author of three teaching texts focused on modeling and optimizing the processes of the extraction and processing of raw materials. He has 56 publications and 299 citations with an h-index of 10, according to WoS (https://publons.com/researcher/2678237/milan-durdan/). He has participated in 16 national and international research projects, in 1 of which he was the principal investigator. He has been the supervisor for 9 bachelor's and 16 diploma theses in the field of mathematical and computer modeling, and the monitoring extraction and processing of raw material processes. In his professional life, he is focused on mathematical modeling and optimization of raw material extraction and processing processes. The applications of his research activity are primarily focused on modeling, optimization, and monitoring systems and their use in the field of technological process control. He has been a member of the Slovak Association of Applied Cybernetics and Informatics (SSAKI) since 2005.
