Mahdi Khemakhem has got his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Valenciennes UVHC (France) conjunctly with the University of Sfax (Tunisia) in 2008. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Business Intelligence at ENET’COM, University of Sfax and he is on a temporary mission in the department of Computer Science, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University (KSA). His research interests are mainly in artificial intelligence including complex systems modeling, heuristics, meta-heuristics, and exact algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems in transportation and networks, resources management, cloud computing, IoT, etc.