Mehdi Toloo , B.Sc. (Pure Mathematics), M.Sc. (Applied Mathematics), Ph.D. (Operations Research), Full Professor at Department of Systems Engineering, Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Ostrava in the Czech Republic, Full Professor at Department of Operations Management & Business Statistics, College of Economics and Political Science, Sultan Qaboos University in Oman, and visiting professor at Department of Management, School of Management and Economics, University of Torino in Italy. Areas of interest include Operations Research, Decision Analysis, Performance Evaluation, Multi-Objective Programming, and Mathematical Modelling. He has contributed to numerous international conferences as a chair, keynote speaker, presenter, track/session chair, workshop organizer, and member of the scientific committee. Mehdi has lots of experience in leading and collaboration in many successful research projects. He acts as an area editor for Computers & Industrial Engineering at ELSEVIER and an associate editor for RAIRO-Operations Reserach . He has written fourteen books and his research has been published in top-tier journals including OMEGA , Energy , European Journal of Operational Research , Computers & Industrial Engineering , Computers & Operations Research , Journal of the Operational Research Society , Annals of Operations Research , Applied Mathematics and Computers , Applied Mathematical Modelling , Expert Systems with Applications , International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology , Computers and Mathematics with Applications , Measurement . Email: mehdi.toloo@vsb.cz; m_toloo@yahoo.com Postal Address: Sokolská třída 33, 702 00 Ostrava 1, Ostrava, Czech Republic. Tel (Office1): +420-59732 2009 (Office2): +420-59732 2104 (Mobile): +420-792 272 272 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6977-4608 23494212000 F-7575-2019