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C. M. Rocco, ) and Ph.D. degree from The Robert Gordon University He is a Full Professor at Universidad Central de Venezuela, currently at Operation Research post-graduate courses. His main areas of research interest are Statistics, Reliability, Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization and Machine Learning techniques. He has published more than 170 refereed manuscripts related to these areas in technical journals, conference proceedings and industry reports, 1980.