DINESH K. SHARMA is a Professor of Quantitative Methods and Computer Applications in the Department of Business, Management and Accounting at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, USA. He earned his MS in Mathematics, MS in Computer Science, PhD in Operations Research, and a second PhD in Management. Professor Sharma has over twenty-eight years of teaching experience and served in several committees to supervise Ph.D. students, and also acts as an external Ph.D. thesis examiner for several universities in India. Dr. Sharma's research interests include mathematical programming, artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques, supply chain management, healthcare management, and portfolio management. He has published over 225 refereed journal articles and conference proceedings and has also won fourteen best paper awards. Professor Sharma has collaborated on a number of funded research grants. Professor Sharma is Editor of the Journal of Global Information Technology and Review of Business and Technology Research and is on the editorial board of several journals and a paper reviewer for a number of additional journals and conferences. Additionally, he is a member of Decision Sciences (USA), a life member of the Operational Research Society of India, and served as a program chair and coordinator of several international conferences in many countries.