MOURAD ELLOUMI is a Full Professor in Computer Science at the University of Tunis-El Manar, Tunisia. He is the author/coauthor of more than fifty publications in international journals and conference proceedings and the coeditor, along with Albert Zomaya, of Algorithms in Computational Molecular Biology: Techniques, Approaches and Applications (Wiley).

ALBERT Y. ZOMAYA is the Chair Professor of High Performance Computing & Networking at The University of Sydney's School of Information Technologies. He is the author/coauthor of seven books, more than 450 publications in technical journals and conference proceedings, and the editor of fourteen books and nineteen conference volumes. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and IET (UK).