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Timothy Ganesan is affiliated with the School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Australia. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering (Hons.) and a Master of Science in Computational Fluid Dynamics. Completing a doctorate in Process Optimization his work focuses on multi-objective optimization, process systems engineering and computational intelligence.Pandian Vasant is a senior lecturer at the Department of Fundamental and Applied Sciences, Faculty of Science and Information Technology, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS in Malaysia. He holds a PhD in computational intelligence, an MSc in engineering mathematics, and a BSc (Hons) in mathematics. His research interests include soft computing, hybrid optimization, holistic optimization, innovative computing and applications. He has authored or coauthored research papers and articles in national and international journals and conference proceedings and papers. He has served as lead guest editor for three special issues of journals, edited books and conference proceedings, written book chapters and conference abstracts, and he gave the keynote lecture for the 2nd EAI International Conference on Nature of Computation and Communication, March 17–18, 2016, Rach Gia, Vietnam. The journal, Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier), recognized Dr. Vasant as its top reviewer in 2009 and as an outstanding reviewer in 2015. He has 25 years of working experience at various universities from 1989–2016. Currently he is editor-in-chief of International Journal of Computing & Optimization, Industrial Engineering & Management, International Journal of Swarm Intelligence and Evolutionary Computation, International Journal of Energy Optimization & Engineering, and managing editor of the Global Journal of Technology and Optimization. Irraivan Elamvazuthi obtained his PhD from Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK in 2002. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia. His research interests include Control, Robotics, Mechatronics, Power Systems and Bio-medical Applications.