Hitoshi Yano received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in systems engineering at Kobe University in 1980 and 1982, respectively, and his D.E. degree from Osaka University in 1988. From 1983 to 1989, he was a Research Associate in the Faculty of Economics at Kagawa University. From 1989 to 1996, he was an Associate Professor at Nagoya Municipal Women's College. From 1996 to 2004, he was an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nagoya City University. He is currently a Professor in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nagoya City University. He won Best Paper Awards from the IAENG International Conference on Operations Research in 2011, 2013, and 2014.