Dr. Broderick Crawford is a Professor at the Computer Science Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso, Chile. He received his Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Federico Santa María Technical University, Chile, in 1988, his MBA from Universidad de Chile, Chile, in 2001, and his PhD in Computer Engineering from Federico Santa María Technical University, Chile, in 2011. Dr. Broderick Crawford's research interests include combinatorial optimization, metaheuristics, global optimization, and autonomous search. In this context, he has published more than 300 scientific papers in different international conferences and journals in computer science, operational research, and artificial intelligence. Most of these papers are based on the resolution of benchmark and real-world optimization problems.