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formation of expert groups, peering and estimation of their reports, and preparing general Interim and final annual reports (1996-2000); Global Environmental Facility, Government of Uzbekistan (Joint Project UZB/98/G42/A/1G/99), an expert at the premises (2000-2001 UNDP). He is a reviewer for several international journals, including Solar Energy, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Renewable Energy, member of the editorial boards of several international journals, including the International Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering (IJEOE) and the Journal of Cases on Information Technology (JCIT), and an honorary professor of the Institute of Hydropower and Renewable Energy of the National Research University.




Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Ph.D., is a Professor with the Faculty of Engineering Management at Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland. His research is on mathematics, statistics, operational research, data science, machine learning, finance, economics, optimization, optimal control, management, neuro-, bio-, and earth sciences, medicine, logistics, development, cosmology, and generalized space-time research. He is involved in the organization of scientific life internationally. He received a Diploma and Doctorate in Mathematics and Economics/ Business Administration at RWTH Aachen and Habilitation at TU Darmstadt. He replaced Professorships at the University of Cologne, and TU Chemnitz, Germany. He was a Professor in Financial Mathematics and Scientific Computing and Assistant to the Director at the Institute of Applied Mathematics, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. He has been a member of five other graduate schools, institutes, and departments at METU. Dr. Weber also has affiliations at the University of Siegen (Germany), Federation University (Ballarat, Australia), University of Aveiro (Portugal), University of North Sumatra (Medan, Indonesia), MalaysiaUniversity of Technology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, KTO Karatay University (Konya, Turkey), Vidyasagar University (Midnapore, India), Mazandaran University of Science and Technology (Babol, Iran), Istinye University (Istanbul, Turkey), and Georgian International Academy of Sciences. He is an Advisor to EURO Conferences for the Association of European OR Societies and the International Federation of OR Societies (IFORS). Professor Weber is an IFORS Fellow, a member of many national OR societies, an honorary chair of some EURO working groups, a subeditor of the IFORS Newsletter, a member of the IFORS Developing Countries Committee and Pacific Optimization Research Activity Group. He has supervised many MSc and Ph.D. students, authored and edited numerous books and articles, and given presentations on diverse areas in theory, methods, and practice. He has been a member of many international journal editorial, special issue, and award boards, participated in numerous research projects, and received various recognitions from students, universities, conferences, and scientific organizations.

Pandian Vasant is a Research Associate at MERLIN Research Centre, TDTU, HCMC, Vietnam, and Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering (IJEOE). He holds a Ph.D. in Computational Intelligence from UNEM, Costa Rica, an MSc in Engineering Mathematics from the University Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia, and a BSc (Hons, Second Class Upper) in Mathematics from the University of Malaya, Malaysia. His research interests include soft computing, hybrid optimization, innovative computing, and applications. He has co-authored research articles in journals, conference proceedings, presentations, special issues, and chapters and was the General Chair of the EAI International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering in Penang, Malaysia (2016) and Bangkok, Thailand (2018). In the years 2009 and 2015, he was awarded top reviewer and outstanding reviewer for the journal Applied Soft Computing. He has 32 years of university working experience (teaching, research, and editorial). He is currently the General Chair of the International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Optimization and a member of the AMS (USA), NAVY Research Group (TUO, Czech Republic), and MERLIN Research Centre (TDTU, Vietnam).