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A. Biographies-h-´-ector and . Cancela, He is currently Full Professor at the Operations Research Department of the Computer Science Institute at the Engineering School of the Universidad de la República (Uruguay), and former Dean at that school. He is also a Researcher at the National Program for the Development of Basic Sciences (PEDECIBA), Uruguay. His research interests are in Operations Research techniques, especially in Monte Carlo simulation and in metaheuristics-based optimization for solving network reliability evaluation and design problems, as well as other applications. He has published more than 80 full papers in international journals, indexed conference proceedings and book chapters. He is currently member of IFIP System Modeling and Optimization technical committee, TC7) and he has been President of ALIO, the Latin American Operations Research Association, 1990.

M. El, . Received, and . Ph, D. in Computer Science in 1992 from the University of Rennes 1, France. Since 1993 he is a Professor at the Logistics Management Department of Saint- Nazaire Institute of Technology. His research interests include sequential and parallel algorithms for telecommunication systems, and Monte Carlo techniques for rare event simulation
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