Prof. Dr. Ramazan Yaman is a professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Istanbul Atlas University. He holds extensive academic and administrative experience, having served as Dean, Department Head, and Board Member at several Turkish universities. His research focuses on production planning, facility layout, and system optimization, and he has taught a wide range of courses from manufacturing processes to decision-making. Prof. Yaman has also engaged in various industry consulting projects with engineering firms, bridging academia and practice. He previously held academic positions at Balikesir University, McMaster University (Canada), and Eastern Mediterranean University.

Dr. Fırat Evirgen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Balıkesir University, Turkey. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 2009, with research focused on dynamic system approaches to optimization problems. His areas of expertise include nonlinear programming, fractional differential equations, optimal control, numerical optimization, and mathematical modeling in biological systems. Dr. Evirgen has authored numerous journal articles and conference papers, particularly on fractional calculus-based methods for constrained optimization. His research integrates advanced analytical techniques with real-world applications in systems stability and control.

Dr. Ibrahim Kucukkoc is a Professor in the Industrial Engineering department at Balikesir University (Turkey) where he has been a faculty member since December 2009. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Exeter (UK) in 2015 upon completing his thesis on modelling and optimisation of complex assembly lines (funded by a 4-year scholarship from Turkish Council of Higher Education).

His research interests lie in the area of modelling and optimisation of modern manufacturing systems (assembly line balancing in particular), production planning of additive manufacturing machines and application of modern algorithms on sophisticated combinatorial optimisation problems. He has collaborated actively with researchers in several other disciplines, such as computer science and mechanical engineering. His publications appeared in various esteemed journals including European Journal of Operational Research, Computers & Operations Research, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, Computers & Industrial Engineering and Production Planning & Control. His research has been cited more than 900 times (based on Scopus metrics) by national and international scholars.

He has served as an Area Editor for An International Journal of Optimization and Control: Theories & Applications (IJOCTA) since 2016 and carried out peer-reviewing works for many reputed academic journals including IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Information Sciences (Elsevier), Computers & Operations Research (Elsevier), European Journal of Operational Research (Elsevier), Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier), International Journal of Production Economics (Elsevier), International Journal of Production Research (Taylor & Francis), Assembly Automation (Emerald), Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal (Springer), Neural Computing and Applications (Springer) and Journal of Facilities Management (Emerald).

He involved in the program and organisation committees of well-recognised conferences, such as ICAME'21 - The 2nd International Conference on Applied Mathematics in Engineering (Balikesir/Turkey), IMSS'21 - 11th International Symposium on Intelligent Manufacturing and Service Systems (Sakarya/Turkey), CIE48 - The 48th International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering (Wellington/New Zealand), META'18 - The 7th International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing (Marrakech/Morocco), AICA215 - International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Control Automation (Phuket Island/Thailand), OR55 - The OR Society Annual Conference (Exeter/UK), YOR18 - The OR Society Biennial Conference (Exeter/UK) among others.

Prof. Necati Özdemir received the bachelor’s degree from Marmara University, in 1992, the M.Sc. degree from the University of Warwick, in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Exeter, in 2000. From 2011 to 2013, he was the Head of the Ivrindi Health Services Vocational School. He is currently a Professor with the Mathematics Department, Balikesir University, where he has been a Faculty Member, since 2001. He is also the Director of the Graduate School of Natural Sciences. His research interests include control theory and applications, optimization theory, fractional calculus and applications, financial mathematics, biological model, and numerical methods, ranging from theory to design to implementation. He has collaborated actively with researchers in several other disciplines. He has served on several conference and workshop program committees and served as the Co-Chair for the ICAME 2018. He also served as a Guest Editor for reputed international journals and publishers, including Springer and the International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation. He also serves on the Editorial Board of IJOCTA.

Dr. Dumitru Baleanu is a professor of mathematics in the Computer Science and Mathematics Department.

Dr. Baleanu is a pioneer of the fractional variational principles and their applications in control theory. Besides, he is one of the co-authors of the seminal paper entitled “Anomalous diffusion expressed through fractional order differential operators in the Bloch-Torrey equation”, published by the Journal of Magnetic Resonance in 2008, which plays a fundamental role in diffusion-weighted MRI.

Dr. Baleanu is a co-author of more than 25 books published by Springer, Elsevier and World Scientific. His H index is 99. He is also a fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Baleanu has supervised to successful completion of three PhD and 13 Master’s students at the University of Guelma, Algeria, University of Mazandaran, Iran and Çankaya University, Turkey.