Evangelos Grigoroudis is an Associate
Professor of Management of Quality Processes at the School of Production
Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, Greece. He pursued
his postgraduate studies at the Technical University of Crete, where he
received his Ph.D. degree in 1999. He has received distinctions from the
Hellenic Operational Research Society, the Academy of Business and
Administrative Sciences, the World Automation Congress, the Foundation of Ioannis
and Vasileia Karayianni, the Technical University of Crete, and the State
Scholarships Foundation of Greece. He has served as a reviewer for more than 50
scientific journals, and he is an associate editor of Operational Research: An
International Journal; the International Journal of Decision Support Systems; Journal
of Knowledge Economy; International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable
Development; Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship; and Journal of
Technology, Innovation and Education. Further, he is a member of the Editorial
Board of the following journals: the International Journal of Information and
Decision Sciences; International Journal of Information Systems in the Service
Sector; and the International Journal of Multicriteria Decision Making. He is the
author/editor of 10 books on the measurement of service quality; the business
strategy and management, and the multicriteria decision aid approaches; as well
as a significant number of research reports and papers in scientific journals
and conference proceedings.
Michael Doumpos is an Associate Professor of Operations Research at the
School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete,
Greece. His research interests include multicriteria decision making, decision
support systems, business intelligence, and financial risk management. He has
published over 60 research papers in premier journals in operations research,
management science, and finance. He has also authored and editedseveral books
on intelligent decision support, multicriteria analysis, and financial decision
making, and he has guest-edited more than 10 special issues in these areas for
leading international journals. He has been involved in a number of research
projects funded by public organizations and the private sector, regarding the
implementation of decision support systems and data analysis techniques in
several areas such as finance, banking, and shipping.