Ismail Burhan Türkşen received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Systems Management and Operations Research from the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He became Full Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1983 and appointed Head of the Department of Industrial Engineering at TOBB University of Economics and Technology In December 2005. He is an active editorial board member of various journals, such as Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Approximate Reasoning, Decision Support Systems, Information Sciences, Expert Systems and its Applications, Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence, Transactions on Operational Research, and Applied Soft Computing. His H-index is 20. He was Editor of 2 NATO-ASI. He is a Fellow of IFSA and IEEE, and a member of IIE, CSIE, CORS, IFSA, NAFIPS, APEO, APET, TORS, and ACM, etc.