Toly Chen

Toly Chen received the B. S. degree, the M S. degree and the Ph. D. degree in industrial engineering from National Tsin Hua University. He is now a Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Systems Management of Feng Chia University, an IEEE member and an IIE senior member. Dr. Chen received IEA/AIE Best Paper Award from Internation Society of Applied Intelligence in 2009. He has more than one hundred publications in journals such as Computers and Industrial Engineering, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Neurocomputing, Intelligent Data Analysis, International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control and Applied Soft Computing. He is also on the editorial boards of several journals.

Publications

Contemporary Theory and Pragmatic Approaches in Fuzzy Computing Utilization
Contemporary Theory and Pragmatic Approaches in Fuzzy Computing Utilization
Toly Chen. © 2013. 327 pages.
Real world problems are complex and full of uncertainty. Fuzzy computing technologies embedded into data analysis methodologies and decision-making processes help to address the...
Applying a Fuzzy and Neural Approach for Forecasting the Foreign Exchange Rate
Applying a Fuzzy and Neural Approach for Forecasting the Foreign Exchange Rate
Toly Chen. © 2013. 14 pages.
Accurately forecasting the foreign exchange rate is important for export-oriented enterprises. For this purpose, a fuzzy and neural approach is applied in this study. In the...
Modelling the Long-Term Cost Competitiveness of a Semiconductor Product with a Fuzzy Approach
Modelling the Long-Term Cost Competitiveness of a Semiconductor Product with a Fuzzy Approach
Toly Chen. © 2013. 11 pages.
Unit cost is undoubtedly the most critical factor for the competitiveness of a product. Therefore, evaluating the competitiveness of a product according to its unit cost is a...
A Dynamically Optimized Fluctuation Smoothing Rule for Scheduling Jobs in a Wafer Fabrication Factory
A Dynamically Optimized Fluctuation Smoothing Rule for Scheduling Jobs in a Wafer Fabrication Factory
Toly Chen. © 2013. 20 pages.
This paper presents a dynamically optimized fluctuation smoothing rule to improve the performance of scheduling jobs in a wafer fabrication factory. The rule has been modified...
Applying a Fuzzy and Neural Approach for Forecasting the Foreign Exchange Rate
Applying a Fuzzy and Neural Approach for Forecasting the Foreign Exchange Rate
Toly Chen. © 2012. 14 pages.
Accurately forecasting the foreign exchange rate is important for export-oriented enterprises. For this purpose, a fuzzy and neural approach is applied in this study. In the...
A Fuzzy-Neural Approach with Collaboration Mechanisms for Semiconductor Yield Forecasting
A Fuzzy-Neural Approach with Collaboration Mechanisms for Semiconductor Yield Forecasting
Toly Chen. © 2012. 18 pages.
Yield forecasting is critical to a semiconductor manufacturing factory. To further enhance the effectiveness of semiconductor yield forecasting, a fuzzy-neural approach with...
A PCA-FBPN Approach for Job Cycle Time Estimation in a Wafer Fabrication Factory
A PCA-FBPN Approach for Job Cycle Time Estimation in a Wafer Fabrication Factory
Toly Chen. © 2012. 18 pages.
Variable replacement is a well-known technique to improve the forecasting performance, but has not been applied to the job cycle time forecasting, which is a critical task to a...
An Integrated Project Management System for Facilitating Knowledge Learning
An Integrated Project Management System for Facilitating Knowledge Learning
Toly Chen, Yu-Cheng Wang. © 2012. 22 pages.
Numerous difficulties and problems are associated with learning in a project. To tackle these problems, in this paper, an integrated project management model is constructed for...
Applying a Fuzzy and Neural Approach for Forecasting the Foreign Exchange Rate
Applying a Fuzzy and Neural Approach for Forecasting the Foreign Exchange Rate
Toly Chen. © 2011. 13 pages.
Accurately forecasting the foreign exchange rate is important for export-oriented enterprises. For this purpose, a fuzzy and neural approach is applied in this study. In the...
Modelling the Long-Term Cost Competitiveness of a Semiconductor Product with a Fuzzy Approach
Modelling the Long-Term Cost Competitiveness of a Semiconductor Product with a Fuzzy Approach
Toly Chen. © 2011. 11 pages.
Unit cost is undoubtedly the most critical factor for the competitiveness of a product. Therefore, evaluating the competitiveness of a product according to its unit cost is a...
A Dynamically Optimized Fluctuation Smoothing Rule for Scheduling Jobs in a Wafer Fabrication Factory
A Dynamically Optimized Fluctuation Smoothing Rule for Scheduling Jobs in a Wafer Fabrication Factory
Toly Chen. © 2011. 18 pages.
This paper presents a dynamically optimized fluctuation smoothing rule to improve the performance of scheduling jobs in a wafer fabrication factory. The rule has been modified...
Developing a Software Agent for Establishing a Convenient Customer-Driven Group-Buying Mechanism
Developing a Software Agent for Establishing a Convenient Customer-Driven Group-Buying Mechanism
Toly Chen, Yi-Chi Wang, Horng-Ren Tsai, Yu-Cheng Lin. © 2009. 12 pages.
Group-buying (or volume discount) is a promising field in electronic commerce for applying software agent technologies. In a traditional group-buying mechanism, either a customer...