Dr. William P. Fox is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School. Currently, he is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the College of William and Mary. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Clemson University. He has taught at the United States Military Academy, Francis Marion University, and Naval Postgraduate School. He has many publications and scholarly activities including over twenty books, twenty-four chapters of books & technical reports, one hundred and fifty journal articles, and over one hundred and fifty conference presentations and mathematical modeling workshops.

Richard D. West is a Professor Emeritus of Francis Marion University and a retired Colonel of the United States Army. He received an MS in Applied Mathematics from the University of Colorado in Boulder, which launched his teaching interest in Numerical Analysis. and earned his PhD in college mathematics education from New York University. After a 30-yeaer career in the Army he taught at Francis Marion University in Florence, where he served as Professor of Mathematics.