Pavel A. Alvarez holds a Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of Occident, Mexico. He has achieved a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Applied informatics from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Mexico. Dr. Alvarez is a Professor at the Autonomous University of Occident, Mexico. Alvarez’s research interests include Multi-Criteria Decision Aids, metaheuristics, and decision support systems. Alvarez performed a Postdoctoral at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. He performed as Academic Staff of EurekaSD from Erasmus Mundus at Ulster University. Relevant publications are: Multiple-criteria decision-making sorting methods: A Survey and the Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Sorting Methods: Applications to Real-World Problems book. He has been a guest editor of the Special Issue of the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems.