About the Author: Adiel Teixeira de Almeida is Full Professor of management engineering at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco and founding coordinator of the CDSID (Center for Decision Systems and Information Development). Before his current position, he worked in business organizations as engineer and manager, including project manager and program manager of R&D projects. He holds a PhD in management engineering from The University of Birmingham, UK. He has a Grant for Productivity in Research from the Brazilian NRC (CNPq) and his interests are in decision-making related to multiple objectives and group decision problems, which includes methodological issues and applications. Also, he has been working as a consultant and with R&D projects for private and public organizations, where he has applied decision models in many contexts, such as: risk analysis, reliability and maintenance, project portfolio, project management, strategic modeling, outsourcing, information systems, supply chain and water management. He authored or co-author several scientific papers in reviewed journals related to a variety of topics such as: Operational Research, Group Decision, Decision Systems, MCDM/A (Multicriteria Decision Making and Aid), Risk, Reliability, Maintenance, Safety, Quality, and Water Resources. He serves on the editorial board of management and engineering scholarly journals, such as: Group Decision and Negotiation, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics and Journal of Quality and Reliability Engineering. He has been an active member of the main societies related to Operational Research, Group Decision, MCDM/A, Risk, Reliability and Maintenance topics.
Cristiano Alexandre Virgínio Cavalcante is Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), at the management engineering department. He obtained his PhD in 2005 from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco for work on Multicriteria Decision Models to Support Maintenance Problems. He has a Grant for Productivity in Research from the Brazilian NRC (CNPq). He has published more than 20 articles on multicriteria decision models, maintenance and Reliability modeling in Reliability Engineering and System Safety, European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, International Journal of Production Economics, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, International Journal, Advanced Manufacturing Technology and others. His research interests include maintenance policies, and Multi-Criteria Decision Support. He is the coordinator of the RANDOM (Research Group on Risk and Decision Analysis in Operations and Maintenance) and a researcher at CDSID.
Marcelo Hazin Alencar is Assistant Professor of the management engineering department, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. He received his BSc in Civil engineering from the Universidade de Pernambuco and the MSc and PhD degree in Management Engineering from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. He is a researcher at CDSID and RANDOM. He is involved in research in the areas of Risk Analysis, Risk Management, Maintenance Management, Reliability and MCDM/A modeling. He is author or co-author of dozen of scientific papers in reviewed journals and book chapters.
Rodrigo José Pires Ferreira is Assistant Professor of management engineering department, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). He received the BSc and MSc degrees in Management engineering from UFPE. He received the PhD in Management engineering from UFPE, in 2008. He is a researcher at the CDSID and RANDOM. His research interests includes multicriteria decision aiding, multiobjective optimization, maintenance optimization, condition monitoring and fault diagnosis, reliability modeling and manufacturing system modeling and planning. He has authored some scientific papers in journals, such as Reliability Engineering & Systems and IMA Journal of Management Mathematics.
Adiel Teixeira de Almeida-Filho is currently an Assistant Professor of management engineering at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Southampton. He is a researcher at the CDSID and RANDOM. Dr. de Almeida-Filho has published in journals such as Production and Operations Management, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 4OR and others. He has research projects funded by the Brazilian NRC (CNPq) and has a research Grant for Productivity in Research from the Brazilian NRC (CNPq).
Thalles Vitelli Garcez is currently an Assistant Professor in the management engineering at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. He received his PhD in Management Engineering from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, in 2013. He is a researcher at the CDSID and RANDOM. His research interests include safety engineering, management risk, reliability, maintenance and multicriteria decision analysis. He has published in journals such as Reliability Engineering & System Safety and IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery.
