Advances in Decision Science and Management / Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Bd.1391 (PDF)

Inderscience Publishing House, England and also an editors-in-chief of Book Series on "Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology" published from Springer, Germany.



Dr. Andrew W. H. Ip received his Ph.D. from Loughborough University (UK), M.B.A. from Brunel University (UK), M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Cranfield University (UK), and LLB (Hons) from the University of Wolverhampton (UK). He was awarded in 2015 "Gold Medal with the Congratulations of Jury" and "Thailand Award for Best International Invention" in the 43rd International Exhibition of Geneva, and he was awarded the "Natural Science Award" in 2013 Ministry of Education Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards by the Ministry of Education of Mainland China. He is a visiting professor of Civil Aviation University of China, Sun Yat-Sen University, South China Normal University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, and Honorary Fellow of the University Warwick, Warwick Manufacturing Group. He is a principal research fellow and an associate director of IGDS, a postgraduate program joint with the Warwick University and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He was previously a laboratory-in-charge of the RFID laboratory and an associate professor of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is a chartered engineer, a senior member of IEEE, a member of Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, and a members of various professional bodies in mechanical and electrical engineering.



Dr. Madjid Tavana is a professor and Lindback Distinguished Chair of Business Analytics at La Salle University, where he serves as a chairman of the Business Systems and Analytics Department. He also holds an honorary professorship in Business Information Systems at the University of Paderborn in Germany. He is a distinguished research fellow at the Kennedy Space Center, the Johnson Space Center, the Naval Research Laboratory at Stennis Space Center, and the Air Force Research Laboratory. He was recently honored with the prestigious Space Act Award by NASA. He holds M.B.A., PMIS, and Ph.D. in Management Information Systems and received his Post-Doctoral Diploma in Strategic Information Systems from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published 11 books and over 200 research papers in international scholarly academic journals. He is the editor-in-chief of Decision Analytics, International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences, International Journal of Management and Decision Making, International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining, International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences, and International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems.