Burcu Adigüzel Mercangöz is an Associate Professor of Operations Research at the Faculty of Transportation and Logistics, Istanbul University (Turkey). Her research interests include Quantitative Methods, Multicriteria Decision Analysis, Optimization Techniques, Optimization (Mathematics), Supply Chain Management, Transportation, Logistics, Information Systems, Heuristics, and Meta-Heuristics (Tabu Search, Genetic Algorithms, Simulated Annealing, Ant-Colony, Particle Swarm Optimization).