Rafael Henrique Palma Lima is an Associate Professor in the Department of Production Engineering at the Federal University of Technology–Paraná (UTFPR), Londrina, Brazil. He received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the State University of Londrina (UEL) and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Production Engineering from the University of São Paulo (USP). Since 2006, he has been conducting research and teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Operations Research, Production Planning and Control, Logistics, and Statistical Quality Control. His research interests include mathematical modeling of real-world problems, heuristic and metaheuristic optimization algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and their applications to decision-making and production systems.