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Paraskevi Th. Zacharia is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial Design and Production Engineering at the University of West Attica. She holds a Dipl.-Ing. degree in Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics (2002), a Ph.D. from the Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics Department (2009) and a Ph.D. from the Business Administration Department (2016) (University of Patras, Greece). Her research interests lie in the field of Production Planning and Control and its interface with Robotics, Automation Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Heuristics. Her work focuses on planning and scheduling of manufacturing and production systems where robots or human workers are employed aiming at the optimization of multi-criteria.

Andreas C. Nearchou is Professor of Operations Management at the Department of Business Administration, University of Patras, Greece. He received his Dipl-Ing in Computer Engineering and Informatics and Dr-Ing in Mechanical Engineering both from University of Patras. Before joining academia in 2006, he has held various industrial appointments, reaching the position of Information Systems Director at Patras University. His research interests are in the areas of production planning and scheduling. He mainly works on the design of efficient algorithms for scheduling, assembly line balancing and logistics management. His papers have appeared in IJPE, IJPR, COR, JAMT, JIM, EAAI among others.