Ernesto León-Castro Associate Professor at Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepcion (Chile). PhD in Administrative Sciences from Universidad de Occidente (Mexico). Member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico (Level 2). His research areas include aggregation operators, decision-making, innovation, finance, fuzzy logic, and other related topics. He has more than 100 publications in journals indexed in the Web of Science/Scopus and has participated in international conferences. He is part of the Ibero-American Network for Competitiveness, Innovation and Development (REDCID) and is a member of the Business Studies in Uncertain Environments research group. He has served as thesis director/co-director at various universities in Mexico, Colombia, and Chile. In addition, he has served as a guest editor for several special editions of journals indexed in the Web of Science/Scopus and for books published by prestigious publishers.
Fabio Blanco-Mesa received International Doctor in Business from the Department of Economics and Business Organization of the University of Barcelona. He has experience in research activities in the international field, management of research and teaching groups. He has published several scientific articles in international journals, book chapters and conference proceedings, such as: Knowledge Based Systems, Journal Computational Optimization in Economics and Finance, Innovation in Service Firms: Perspective From Innovative Behavior, Soft Computing in Management and Business Economics, Technological and Economic Development of Economy, Advance in Intelligence Systems and Computing, Soft Computing in Management and Business Economics, Journal of Intelligent in Fuzzy Systems, Kybernetes. Also, development of revision, control and verification tasks for different international journals. His research interest includes decision making, competitiveness, interest groups, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, regional development, strategic analysis, diffuse systems and aggregation operators applied to management, uncertainty, and bibliometrics.
Victor Alfaro-Garcia holds International Doctor of Business with specialization in models for the treatment of uncertainty in decision making. He is Author of refereed journals, books and book chapters, as well as leading speaker at national and international conferences. He is Deputy Coordinator of the IberoAmerican Network for Competitiveness Innovation and Development REDCID, a program attached to the Ibero-American Program of Science and Technology for Development CYTED. He has national and international professional experience such as Financial Consultant (Management Solutions - Mexico and Peru), Project Coordinator (Prosegur, Spain), Technology and Development Consultant (TTR – Group, Germany).
Ana Maria Gil-Lafuente is a Full Professor in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Barcelona (Spain). She has an MSc and a PhD in Business Administration from the University of Barcelona. She has published more than 400 papers in journals, books and conference proceedings including journals such as Information Sciences, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Applied Soft Computing, International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems and Expert Systems with Applications. She has published more than 20 books including 10 with Springer and 2 with World Scientific. She is Editor-in-Chief of Nova Sciences Collection Computational Intelligence in Engineering, Economics, and Management and Co-Editor-in-Chief of 8 journals published by the Association for Modeling and Simulation in Enterprises (AMSE). She is on the Editorial Board of several journals and scientific committees. She has also served as a Reviewer for many journals. She is currently interested in decision making, aggregation operators, fuzzy systems, and uncertainty and finance.
Janusz Kacprzyk is Professor of Computer Science at the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, WIT – Warsaw School of Information Technology, AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, and PIAP – Industrial Institute of Automation and Measurements, Warsaw, and Honorary Professor at Yli Normal University, Xinjiang, China, and Olar Yurdu University in Baku, Azerbaijan. He is Full Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Member of Academia Europaea, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, European Academy of Sciences, International Academy of Systems and Cybernetics, International Academy of Information Technology and Quantitative Management, National Academy of Artificial Intelligence, Foreign Member of: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Spanish Royal Academy of Economic and Financial Sciences (RACEF), Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, Flemish Royal Academy of Belgium of Sciences and the Arts (KVAB), Russian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Accademia Nazionale di Scienze, Lettere e Arti (Italy), African Academy of Sciences. He received 8 honorary doctorates, many top awards by IEEE, IFSA, and Fellowships of IEEE (Life), IET, IFSA, EurAI, IFIP, AAIA, AIIA, I2CICC, CORE, SMIA. His research includes computation and artificial intelligence, notably fuzzy logic, used in systems, decisions, optimization, control, data analytics, mobile robotics, systems modeling, ICT
