Dr. Bo Lu is an associate professor at Dalian University's School of Economics and Management. He holds a postdoctorate degree in Management from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and he holds a PhD in Economics from Tongmyong University, Korea. His research focuses on the areas of port efficiency, privatization, and incentive-mechanism design at terminal concessions in seaports. His research also includes the policy implications of the global banking crises, and deposit insurance. He has published more than 40 journal papers and conference papers and has also edited journals. His articles have appeared in journals such as Maritime Policy & Management, the International Journal of Navigation and Port Research, the Journal of Coastal Research, the Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing,  the Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, and the Journal of Mechanical Engineering. He has reviewed several papers for Maritime Policy & Management and the International Journal of Navigation and Port Research. He is also the Vice President of the Chinese Society of Optimization, Overall Planning and Economical Mathematics, the Marine Economic Commission, and an active member and special researcher at the China Logistics Association, and a member of the Academic Association in China.

Prof. Shouyang Wang is the "TEI@I" methodology creator, the President of the International Society for Knowledge and Systems Science, a fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences and the International Academy of Systems and Control Sciences, and is a council member of the Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Society, and executive council member of the International Society of Multiple Criteria Decision Making. He has published 7 books with the Springer-Verlag, and more than 200 SCI/SSCI academic papers.