ABDULRAHMAN AL-AHMARI received the Ph.D. degree in manufacturing systems engineering from the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K., in 1998. He is currently the Dean of the Advanced Manufacturing Institute and a Professor of industrial engineering with King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He led a number of funded projects from different organizations in Saudi Arabia. He has published papers in leading Journal of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. His current research interests include advanced manufacturing technologies, Petri nets, analysis and design of manufacturing systems, computer integrated manufacturing, optimization of manufacturing operations, flexible manufacturing systems and cellular manufacturing systems, and applications of decision support systems in manufacturing.