Prof. Dr. Petr Ekel is a Full Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He is also at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He received his Ph.D. from the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, National Technical University of Ukraine, and the D.Sc. (Habilitation) degree from the Institute of Electrodynamics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Since 2004, Prof. Dr. Petr Ekel has been the President and a Principal Consultant with Advanced System Optimization Technologies. His main research activities are related to operational research, decision-making, and computational intelligence, and involve problems of modeling and optimization under different levels of uncertainty and multicriteria decision-making, including decision-making in a fuzzy environment, fuzzy identification and control, processing of heterogeneous information, and risk evaluation and management. In addition, Prof. Dr. Petr Ekel is a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Engineering Sciences and an Editorial Board Member for numerous international journals, including Information Sciences, Information Fusion, and Group Decision and Negotiation. He has been a member of numerous program and advisory committees of international conferences in the areas of system modeling, optimization, and control and decision-making.