Peng-Yeng Yin

Peng-Yeng Yin received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. From 1993 to 1994, he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, and the Department of Radiology, Georgetown University, Washington D.C. In 2000, he was a visiting Professor in the Visualization and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (VISLab) at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Riverside (UCR). From 2006 to 2007, he was a visiting Professor at Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado. And in 2015, he was a visiting Professor at Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of the Department of Information Management, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan, and he was the department head during 2004 and 2006, and the Dean of the office of R&D for the university from 2008 to 2012. Dr. Yin received the Overseas Research Fellowship from Ministry of Education in 1993, Overseas Research Fellowships from National Science Council in 2000 and 2015. He is a member of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society and listed in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, and Who’s Who in Asia. Dr. Yin has published more than 140 academic articles in reputable journals and conferences including European Journal of Operational Research, Decision Support Systems, Annals of Operations Research, IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Trans. on Education, etc. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Applied Metaheuristic Computing and has been on the Editorial Board of Journal of Computer Information Systems, Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, and served as a program committee member in many international conferences. He has also edited four books in pattern recognition and metaheuristic computing. His current research interests include artificial intelligence, evolutionary computation, educational informatics, metaheuristics, pattern recognition, image processing, machine learning, software engineering, computational intelligence, and operations research.

Publications

Trends in Developing Metaheuristics, Algorithms, and Optimization Approaches
Peng-Yeng Yin. © 2013. 375 pages.
Developments in metaheuristics continue to advance computation beyond its traditional methods. With groundwork built on multidisciplinary research findings; metaheuristics...
A Complementary Cyber Swarm Algorithm
Peng-Yeng Yin, Fred Glover, Manuel Laguna, Jia-Xian Zhu. © 2013. 20 pages.
A recent study (Yin et al., 2010) showed that combining particle swarm optimization (PSO) with the strategies of scatter search (SS) and path relinking (PR) produces a Cyber...
Modeling, Analysis, and Applications in Metaheuristic Computing: Advancements and Trends
Peng-Yeng Yin. © 2012. 445 pages.
The engineering and business problems the world faces today have become more impenetrable and unstructured, making the design of a satisfactory problem-specific algorithm...
Reinforcement Learning for Improving Gene Identification Accuracy by Combination of Gene-Finding Programs
Peng-Yeng Yin, Shyong Jian Shyu, Shih-Ren Yang, Yu-Chung Chang. © 2012. 14 pages.
Due to the explosive and growing size of the genome database, the discovery of gene has become one of the most computationally intensive tasks in bioinformatics. Many such...
A Complementary Cyber Swarm Algorithm
Peng-Yeng Yin, Fred Glover, Manuel Laguna, Jia-Xian Zhu. © 2011. 20 pages.
A recent study (Yin et al., 2010) showed that combining particle swarm optimization (PSO) with the strategies of scatter search (SS) and path relinking (PR) produces a Cyber...
International Journal of Applied Metaheuristic Computing (IJAMC)
Peng-Yeng Yin. Est. 2010.
The International Journal of Applied Metaheuristic Computing (IJAMC) is a rigorous refereed journal that publishes high quality, innovative research on the latest developments...
International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI)
Nilanjan Dey. Est. 2009.
In an ambient intelligence world, devices work in concert to support people in carrying out everyday life activities and tasks in a natural way using information and intelligence...