Cesar Rego is Associate Professor of Management Information Systems and Operations Management at the School of Business of the University of Mississippi. He received a degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the Portucalense University in Portugal, a MSc in Operations Research and Systems Engineering from the School of Technology (IST) of the University of Lisbon, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Versailles and INRIA, France. Professor Rego's publications have appeared in books and in leading journals on optimization such as the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), the Journal of the Operational Research Society (JORS), Parallel Computing, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, Computers & OR, Annals of Operations Research, OR Spectrum, IEEE Intelligent Systems, and Management Science. Dr. Rego is Associate Editor of four research journals in the field of Operations Research and Management Science. He has served on several scientific committees such as a review panel for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and examiner of several doctoral dissertations in Europe, USA and Canada. Dr. Rego has organized and chaired numerous sessions and clusters in international conferences and has served as invited speaker in a number of tutorials and plenary sessions.