Author: Olli-Pekka Hilmola

Venus Y.H. Lun is Director of Shipping Research Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. Her research papers have appeared in various journals such as Expert Systems with Applications, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal Production Research, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Transport Reviews, and others. She has co-authored several books published by Mc Graw-Hill, VDM, and Springer. Olli-Pekka Hilmola is working as a Professor in Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), in Kouvola, Finland. He is affiliated with numerous international journals through editorial boards, including Baltic Journal of Management, Industrial Management and Data Systems, Decision Support Systems, and International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics. He has published more than 100 refereed journal manuscripts. Alexandros Goulielmos has been Professor of Marine Economics in the Department of Maritime Studies, University of Piraeus, Greece, since 1998. He pioneered the application of chaos and complexity theory to maritime economics and shipping company management. He is the author of 14 books and over 40 papers. In 1993 to 1995, he was appointed General Secretary of the Greek Shipping Ministry. He obtained his Ph D in the economics of second hand prices from Brunel University, where he was a reader and an associate professor between 1992 and 1998. Kee-hung Lai is Associate Professor with a research interest in logistics management in the Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. He has co-authored three books and his research papers have appeared in various journals such as California Management Review, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Business Logistics, and others. T.C. Edwin Cheng is Dean of the Faculty of Business and Chair Professor of Management in the Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. His research interests are in operations management and operations research. He has published over 520 papers in such journals as Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Operations Research, Organization Science, and others. He has co-authored ten books published by Chapman and Hall, Mc Graw-Hill, and Springer.