**About the Editors**

## **Humberto Rocha**

Humberto Rocha is an Associate Professor at University of Coimbra and Researcher at CeBER and Inesc-Coimbra Research Centers. He received both his bachelor and master degrees in Applied Mathematics from the University of Coimbra in 1998 and 2001, respectively. In 2005, he completed a PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics at Old Dominion University (ODU). His research centers on applications in physics, inverse engineering, aeronautics, medicine, and economics. This multidisciplinary approach lead to publications in a variety of journals of different areas, including Journal of Aircraft, Medical Physics, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Physica Medica, Physica A. Most of his publications are in top journals of his area (Applied Mathematics/Operations Research), including SIAM Journal on Optimization, European Journal of Operational Research, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Global Optimization, Computational Optimization and Applications, Applied Mathematical Modeling, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, International Transactions of Operations Research.

## **Ana Maria A. C. Rocha**

Ana Maria A. C. Rocha is an Associate Professor in the Department of Production and Systems at the University of Minho. She completed her PhD in Production and Systems Engineering in 2005, a Master's in Informatics Engineering in 1997 and a Degree in Systems and Informatics Engineering in 1993 from the University of Minho. She is a researcher at the ALGORITMI Research Centre, School of Engineering at the University of Minho and coordinator of the research group "Systems Engineering and Operational Research". Her scientific activity includes the publication of more than 100 scientific articles, with peer review, published in journals of recognized international merit and international conferences. She is a co-Editor of more than 20 Proceedings books. She has organized 2 international events as general chair. She received 2 awards from APDIO (Portuguese Association for Operational Research) for the quality of published articles. Her research interests are: Global Optimization; Non-Linear Optimization; Integer-mixed programming. Her main teaching interests are in the areas of Nonlinear Optimization, Numerical Methods and Statistics.
