About the Editors

Kenneth D. Lawrence is a Professor of Management Science and Business Analytics in the School of Management at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Professor Lawrence’s research is in the areas of applied management science, data mining, forecasting, and multi-criteria decision-making. His current research works include multi-criteria mathematical programming models for productivity analysis, discriminant analysis, portfolio modeling, quantitative finance, and forecasting/data mining. He is a full member of the Graduate Doctoral Faculty of Management at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the Department of Management Science and Information Systems and a Research Fellow in the Center for Supply Chain Management in the Rutgers Business School. His research work has been cited over 1,500 times in over 225 journals, including: Computers and Operations Research, International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Marketing, Sloan Management Review, Management Science, and Technometrics. He has 301 publications in 28 journals including: European Journal of Operational Research, Computers and Operations Research, Operational Research Quarterly, International Journal of Forecasting and Technometrics. Professor Lawrence is Associated Editor of the International Journal of Strategic Decision Making (IGI Publishing). He is, also, Associated Editor of the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (Springer Verlag), as well as Associate Editor of the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (Taylor and Francis). He is Editor of Advances in Business and Management Forecasting (Emerald Press), Editor of Applications of Management Science (Emerald Press), and Editor of Advances in Mathematical Programming and Financial Planning (Emerald Press.)