**About the Editors**

#### **Marcela Quiroz-Castellanos**

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 a 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).

#### **Luis Gerardo de la Fraga**

Luis Gerardo de la Fraga received his 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 a Ph.D. 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.

#### **Adriana Lara**

Adriana Lara is a Full-Time Professor at the Physics and Mathematics School (ESFM) at the IPN in Mexico City. Her research interests include Numerical Optimization and Mathematical ´ Programming, Multi-criteria Decision Making, Bio-inspired heuristics, Memetic and Hybrid techniques, and Data Analysis. Her research work has received the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award (twice) in 2010 and 2012. She also received the 2010 Engineering Award granted by Mexico City's Science and Technology Institute (ICyTDF) and the Ph.D. Dissertation Award both by SMIA and ANIEI.

#### **Leonardo Trujillo**

Leonardo Trujillo is Professor at the Tecnologico Nacional de M ´ exico/Instituto Tecnol ´ ogico ´ de Tijuana (ITT), working in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and the Engineering Sciences Graduate Program. Dr. Trujillo received an Electronic Engineering degree and a Master's in Computer Science degree from ITT, as well as a doctorate in Computer Science from CICESE research center in Ensenada, Mexico. He is involved in interdisciplinary research in the fields of evolutionary computation, machine learning and pattern recognition. His research focuses on Genetic Programming (GP) and developing new learning and search strategies based on this paradigm. Dr. Trujillo has been the PI of several national and international research grants, receiving several distinctions from the Mexican science council (CONACYT). His work has been published in over 70 journal papers, 60 conference papers, 18 book chapters, and he has edited 6 books on EC and GP. He is on the Editorial Board of the journals GPEM (Springer) and MCA (MDPI), and associate editor of AI Communications, has been a Special Issue Guest Editor on 5 occasions, and regularly serves as a reviewer for highly respected journals in AI, EC and ML, is series co-chair of the NEO Workshop series, and has organized, been track chair or served as PC member of various prestigious conferences, including GECCO, GPTP, EuroGP, PPSN, CEC, CVPR and ECCV.

#### **Oliver Sch ¨utze**

Oliver Schutze is a Full Professor at the Cinvestav—IPN in Mexico City, Mexico. His main ¨ research interests are numerical and evolutionary optimization. He is the co-author of more than 150 publications, including 2 monographs, 5 school textbooks, and 10 edited books. Two of his papers have received the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award (in 2010 and 2012). He is the 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*, *IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation*, *Research in Control and Optimization*, and *Applied Soft Computing*. He is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the National System of Researchers (SNI III).
