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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsEugene LevnerEugene Levner obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Central Economic Mathematical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Moscow). He is the author of 3 books and more than 60 papers in refereed journals. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Holon Academic Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel. His research interests are scheduling theory with applications to robotics, design and analysis of computer algorithms, and modeling of manufacturing and communication systems. His papers have appeared in Discrete Applied Mathematics, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Operations Research Letters, Annals of Operations Research, Information Processing Letters, Computers and Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Information Systems and Operations Research, International Transactions on Operational Research, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan, Automation and Remote Control, among others. Dr. Levner was an organizer and chairman of international conferences on Intelligent Scheduling of Robots and Distributed Computer Communication Networks held in Tel-Aviv, Israel, in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1999. He is an Associate Editor of INFOR.Hiroshi KiseHiroshi Kise is a professor of Department of Mechanical and System Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan. Dr. Kise is mainly interested in the theory of scheduling and its applications, and modeling, analysis, optimization and simulation for production and distribution. He has published many papers in Journal of Operations Research Society of America, Management Science, AIIE Transactions, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Operations Research Society of Japan and others. He is currently the President of Scheduling Society of Japan.