About the Author

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Shuai Ding is currently Professor with the School of Management, Hefei University of Technology. He received the Ph.D. degree in management information systems from Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China, in 2011. He is currently Professor with the School of Management, Hefei University of Technology. He has been Visiting Scholar with the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. His primary research interests include medical data mining, artificial intelligence, and automatic diagnosis system. He has authored/coauthored more than 40 scientific articles at various top venues, including IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, and IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. Prof. Ding has served as a reviewer for various journals and conferences.Desheng Wu is a Distinguished Professor with theEconomics and Management School, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Dean for B&R College, UCAS. He has published over 180 ISI-indexed papers in refereed journals, such as Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Risk Analysis, and the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, and seven books at Springer. His current research interests include mathematical modeling of systems containing uncertain and risky situations, with special interests in the finance-economics operations interface, maximizing operational and financial goals using the methodologies for game theory, and large-scale optimization., Prof. Wu was a recipient of the ten big impact articles in the Journal of the Operational Research Society, the Elsevier Most Cited Researcher, the Top 25 Hottest Article in Elsevier Journals, and the Best Paper Award Most Cited Articles in Human and Ecological Risk Assessment. He has served as an Associate Editor and a Guest Editor for several journals, such as Risk Analysis, the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Annals of Operations Research, Computers and Operations Research, International Journal of Production Economics, and Omega. He serves as the Book Series Editor on Computational Risk Management (Springer). He has been invited to give plenary lectures and keynote talks in various international conferences more than 30 times. He is an Elected Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe), the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences.