Seyed Mohammad Ashrafi received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering-Water Resources Engineering from Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. His research interests include Integrated Water Resources Planning and Management, Simulation/Optimization modelling, Multi-objective Optimization in Decision Making Problems, Hydroinformatics, Heuristic and Evolutionary Optimization Algorithms, Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources Management. He is currently Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran