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Masood Fathi received his PhD degree in industrial engineering from the University of Navarra, Spain. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in production engineering with the University of Skövde, Sweden. His main research interests include the applications of operations research and optimization techniques in production and logistics. He has been involved as a Leader or/and a Researcher in several national and international research projects in collaboration with industry. He has authored several research papers in reputed international journals.

Amir Nourmohammadi received his PhD degree in industrial and systems engineering from Tarbiat Modares University, Iran. He is currently a Researcher at the Production and Automation Engineering Department, University of Skövde. His main research interests include the applications of operations research and soft computing techniques in production and logistics.

Amos H.C. NG is a professor at the University of Skövde and a guest professor at Uppsala University, Sweden. He holds a BE degree and an M.Phil. degree, both in Manufacturing Engineering from the City University of Hong Kong and a PhD degree in Computing Sciences and Engineering from De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He is a member of the IET and a Chartered Engineer in the UK. His research interests include modeling, simulation and multi-objective optimization for production systems design and analysis.

Anna Syberfeldt received the MSc degree in computer science from the University of Skövde, Sweden, in 2004, and the PhD degree from the De Montfort University, U.K., in 2009. She is currently a Professor at the University of Skövde. Her research interests include virtual engineering, operator support systems, and advanced ICT solutions with applications in manufacturing and logistics. She has published over 70 scientific articles and is the Leader of the Production and Automation Engineering Research Group, University of Skövde. This research group includes 45 researchers involved within the area of virtual engineering. The group’s research is to a large extent applied and carried out in close cooperation with industrial partners, mainly within the manufacturing industry.

Hamidreza Eskandari is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Director of Advanced Simulation Lab at the Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. He received his PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida (2006). His research interests include simulation modeling and analysis, simulation optimization and evolutionary multi-objective optimization.