Shih-Wei Lin received his bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Management from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, in 1996, 1998, and 2000, respectively. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Information Management, Chang Gung University, Taiwan. He is also affiliated with the Department of Emergency Medicine, Keelung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kee-lung City, Taiwan, and with the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ming Chi University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. His current research interests include meta-heuristics and data mining. His papers have appeared in Computers & Operations Research, the European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, the European Journal of Industrial Engineering, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Knowledge and Information Systems, Applied Soft Computing, Applied Intelligence, Expert Systems with Applications, and IEEE Access, etc.