The author Edward Tsang holds a first degree in Finance and a MSc and PhD degree in Computer Science. He is the Director of Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents (CCFEA), an interdisciplinary research centre which he co-founded in October 2002. He has international reputation in artificial intelligence. He is well known for his research in constraint satisfaction (a branch of combinatorial optimisation for decision support and scheduling) and computational finance and economics. His book on constraint satisfaction is the most cited literature on the subject. He founded the Technical Committee in Computation Finance and Economics in IEEE's Computational Intelligence Society in 2004. Edward Tsang's research is highly industry-relevant. He has given consultation to GEC Marconi, British Telecom, Honda Europe, Causeway, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Allianz RAS and other organizations.
Thom Fruehwirth is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Ulm, Germany. He is the designer of the declarative programming language Constraint Handling Rules (CHR) and the main author of two books on constraint logic programming and reasoning.