<p><b>Farouk Yalaoui</b> is Full Professor at UTT, France. He specializes in optimization and industrial engineering, and is a founding member of the Algerian Academy of Sciences and Technologies.</p> <p><b>Nhan-Quy Nguyen</b> is a researcher at UTT, France. He specializes in optimizing complex systems, with applications in logistics, healthcare and energy management.</p> <p><b>Yassine Ouazene</b> is Associate Professor at UTT, France. He specializes in combinatorial optimization and operations research, and his research focuses on production systems, manufacturing design and smart pricing.</p> <p><b>Maria Zemzami</b> is Professor at Université Mohammed V, Morocco. She specializes in software engineering, cloud computing and network security, and her research focuses on information system interoperability and optimization algorithms.</p> <p><b>Leïla Merghem-Boulahia</b> is Full Professor at UTT, France, and the head of the ISIFT. Her main research interests include multi-agent systems, quality of service, smart grids, the IoT and the IIoT.</p>