Good morning! It’s my great pleasure to meet you all here in Canada. First of all, I would like to thank our host, Brock University, for the great work they did organizing this event. I would like to thank Prof. Syed Ejaz Ahmed in particular for his contributions to this conference. Also, I would like to give a big welcome to Prof. Cheryl Mccormick and Prof. Shyamal Kumar Bose, associate dean of the Math and Science Faculty. Many thanks to our distinguished guests for attending this conference!

Over the past twelve years, we successfully hold conferences in Asia, America, Europe and Australia in order to promote state-of-the-art research in the field of MSEM. More and more scholars from different countries are now attending the conference and sharing their compelling work in this field. Such an international communication platform provides us the opportunity to work together, learn all the ideas which contribute to the MSEM development.

We can see the emergence of new developments and challenges every year. For example, The “Big Data” research can always find new ways to optimize the better integration of statistics and analysis. “Data driven” provides ideas combing various methods and data. These changes supply us tremendous opportunities to explore new methodologies and technologies for addressing the new MSEM challenges And we can communicate and discuss it freely on this conference.

In the following two days, eight keynote speakers will share us interesting talks, including Prof. Benjamin Lev, Prof. Abdulkadir Hussein, Prof. Gheorghe Duca, Prof. Fang Lee Cooke, Prof. Anand Vidyashankar, Prof. Janusz Koziński, Prof. Mitsuo Gen, Prof. Syed Ejaz Ahmed. Welcome all of you, we all look forward to your great presentations. Also welcome our guests from Portugal, Japan, Spain, Azerbaijan, and elsewhere in the world. Thanks for your efforts and support that make our conference a success. We hope you enjoy great days in Canada, a country with beautiful natural areas, delicious food, and historical sites. It’s excited to visit the Niagara Falls and we hope Prof. Syed Ejaz Ahmed will guide us to try some local specialties.

We believe that this conference will be a feast of academic and cultural interactions in Canada. It will be an event of friendship and cooperation. We aim to foster more research collaboration in a relax atmosphere, and I do hope you will all enjoy it! Thank you again for joining us and making it such a success! Have a great experience!

Prof. Dr. Dr. Jiuping Xu

General Chair

President of the International Society of Management Science and Engineering Management

Academician of International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences

Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry

August 6, 2019