Yun-Chia Liang, Ph.D.
Yun-Chia Liang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering & Management
Yuan Ze University
135 Yuan-Tung Rd.,
Chung-Li, Taoyuan,
Taiwan 320
Phone: 886-3-4638800 ext.2521
Fax: +886-03-463-8907
E-mail: ycliang@saturn.yzu.edu.tw
Lab:Global Logistics Lab
Personal Website:http://logistics.iem.yzu.edu.tw/teachers/Ycliang/Ycliang.htm
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Industrial & Systems Engineering, Auburn University 2001
M.S. in Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh 1999
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University 1996
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Tatung Institute of Technology 1992
Experience
2002-Present   Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management, Yuan Ze University
1999-2001       T.A. & R.A., Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Auburn University
1997-1999       T.A. & R.A., Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
1994-1995       Teaching Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tatung University
FIELDS
Combinatorial Optimization
Meta-Heuristic
Neural Network
Production Scheduling
Reliability Analysis
PUBLICATIONS

A. Journal Papers

1.      Yun-Chia Liang and Alice E. Smith, "An Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for the Redundancy Allocation Problem (RAP)," IEEE Transactions on Reliability, vol. 53, no. 3, 2004, pp. 417-423. (SCI)

2.      Shu-Kai S. Fan, Yun-Chia Liang, and Erwie Zahara, "A Hybrid Simplex Search and Particle Swarm Optimization for the Global Optimization of Multimodal Functions," Engineering Optimization, vol. 36, no. 4, 2004, pp. 401-418. (SCI)

3.      M. Fatih Tasgetiren and Yun-Chia Liang, “A Binary Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Lot Sizing Problem,” Journal of Economic and Social Research, vol. 5, no. 2, 2003, pp. 1-20.

     Under Revision or Reviewing

1.      Alice E. Smith, David W. Coit, and Yun-Chia Liang, "A Neural Network Approach to Condition Based Maintenance: Case Study of Airport Ground Transportation Vehicles," (Rutgers University IE Working Paper 03-117, and also submitted to IMA Journal of Management Mathematics on Maintenance, Replacement and Reliability, April 2003).

2.      Yun-Chia Liang and Alice E. Smith, “An Ant Colony Approach to the Orienteering Problem,” (submitted to Journal of the Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers, December 2003).

3.      Alice E. Smith, David W. Coit, and Yun-Chia Liang, "Mining of Door Closure Data to Minimize Failures of Airport Ground Transportation Vehicles," (submitted to IIE Transactions, March  2004).

4.      M. Fatih Tasgetiren, Yun-Chia Liang, Mehmet Sevkli, and Gunes Gencyilmaz, “Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Makespan and Total Flowtime Minimization in Permutation Flowshop Sequencing Problem,” (submitted to European Journal of Operational Research Feature Issue on “Evolutionary and Meta-Heuristic Scheduling,” April 2004)

5.      Shu-Kai S. Fan, Yun-Chia Liang, and Erwie Zahara, "Hybrid Algorithms for Surface Response Optimization," (submitted to Computers & Industrial Engineering, May 2004, under revision).

B. Conference Proceedings & Presentations

1.      Yun-Chia Liang, Shu-Kai S. Fan, and Chia-Chuan Wu, "A Variable Neighborhood Descent Heuristic for Redundancy Allocation Problems," (accepted to the 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management System (APIEMS 2004)).

2.      Yun-Chia Liang, Angela H.L. Chen, Wen-Ching Kao, and Chiuh-Cheng Chyu, "An Ant Colony Approach to Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problems," (accepted to the 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management System (APIEMS 2004)).

3.      M. Fatih Tasgetiren, Yun-Chia Liang, Mehmet Sevkli, and Gunes Gencyilmaz, “Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Makespan and Maximum Lateness Minimization in Permutation Flowshop Sequencing Problem,” Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS 2004), September 6-8, Sakarya, Turkey, pp. 431-441.

4.      M. Fatih Tasgetiren, Yun-Chia Liang, Mehmet Sevkli, and Gunes Gencyilmaz, “Differential Evolution Algorithm for Permutation Flowshop Sequencing Problem with Makespan Criterion,” Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS 2004), September 6-8, Sakarya, Turkey, pp. 442-452.

5.      M. Fatih Tasgetiren, Mehmet Sevkli, Yun-Chia Liang, and Gunes Gencyilmaz, “Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Permutation Flowshop Sequencing Problem,” Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2004), LNCS 3172, September 5-8, Brussels, Belgium, pp. 382-390.

6.      M. Fatih Tasgetiren, Mehmet Sevkli, Yun-Chia Liang, and Gunes Gencyilmaz, “Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Single Machine Total Weighted Tardiness Problem,” Proceedings of the 2004 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC’04), June 20-23, Portland, Oregon, pp. 1412-1419.

7.      陳香伶、梁韵嘉、劉永裕、林昆霖，“餐飲服務作業系統的模擬與分析:以麥當勞速食連鎖企業為例”，2004管理思潮理論暨實務研討會論文集，中華民國九十三年四月八日，中壢市，南亞技術學院，pp. 87-108。

8.      羅敏華、梁韵嘉，“蟻群最佳化演算法於載重與距離限制之車輛途程問題的研究”，中國工業工程協會九十二年度年會暨學術研討會學生專題論文競賽研究所組佳作，中華民國九十二年十二月六日，彰化市，建國技術學院。

9.      Yun-Chia Liang, Min-Hua Lo, and Angela H.L. Chen, "An Ant Colony Approach for the Vehicle Routing Problem under Distance and Capacity Constraints," Proceedings of the 8th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering - Theory, Applications and Practice (IJIE2003), November 10-12, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 600-605.

10.  梁韵嘉、高秀梅，“蟻群演算法於硬性時窗車輛途程問題之探討”，第一屆流通與全球運籌論文研討會論文集，中華民國九十二年十月卅一日，台中技術學院，pp. 349-354(E11)。

11.  Yu-Chen Huang, Zen-Shan Her, and Yun-Chia Liang, "Redundancy Allocation Using Meta-Heuristics," Proceedings of the 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management System (APIEMS 2002), December 18-20, 2002, Taipei, pp. 1758-1761.

12.  Yun-Chia Liang, Sadan Kulturel-Konak, and Alice E. Smith, "Meta Heuristics for the Orienteering Problem," Proceedings of the 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'02), May 12-17, 2002, Honolulu, Hawaii, pp. 384-389.

13.  Yun-Chia Liang and Alice E. Smith, "Ant Colony Optimization for Constrained Combinatorial Problems," Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering - Theory, Applications and Practice, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2000, ID 296. (won the best student paper award)

14.  Yun-Chia Liang and Alice E. Smith, "Ant Systems and Redundancy Allocation," Proceedings of the 9th Annual Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC'00), May 21-23, 2000, Cleveland, Ohio.

15.  Yun-Chia Liang and Alice E. Smith, "An Ant System Approach to Redundancy Allocation Problem," INFORMS Fall 1999 Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

16.  Yun-Chia Liang and Alice E. Smith, "An Ant System Approach to Redundancy Allocation," Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Washington D.C., IEEE, pp. 1478-1484.

C. Books & Others

1.      Yun-Chia Liang, "Ant Colony Optimization Approach to Combinatorial Problems," Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Auburn University, December 2001.

D. Technical Reports

1.      Alice E. Smith, David W. Coit, and Yun-Chia Liang, "A Neural Network Approach to Condition Based Maintenance: Case Study of Airport Ground Transportation Vehicles," Rutgers University IE Working Paper 03-117, 2003.

E. NSC Projects & Others

1.      印刷電路板生產規劃決策支援系統之開發 – 子計畫六 : 印刷電路板生產排程決策系統之開發(1/3) (NSC 92-2213-E-155-059)(92/8-93/7)

2.       印刷電路板生產規劃決策支援系統之開發 – 子計畫六 : 印刷電路板生產排程決策系統之開發(2/3) (NSC 93-2213-E-155-021)(93/8-94/7)

3.       教育部顧問室「製商整合科技教育改進」計畫 : 電子化供應鏈產學合作教育計劃-以印刷電路板業為例(92/3-92/12)

4.       教育部顧問室「製商整合科技教育改進」計畫 : 電子化供應鏈產學合作教育計劃-以印刷電路板業為例(93/1-93/12)

F. Reviewer of Journals and Conferences

1.      IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

2.      Applied Soft Computing

3.      Journal of the Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers

4.      2000 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC’00)

5.      2004 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC’04)

6.      The 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management System (APIEMS 2004)