Welcome to JIAN YANG's Research Page

Research Interests:

· Combinatorial Optimization; Production Planning; Stochastic Inventory Control; Supply Chain Management; Logistics; Game-theoretic Applications

Ongoing Projects

Yang, J. and Y. Xia. 2008. A Nonatomic-game Approach to Dynamic Pricing Under Competition. Working Paper
Yang, J. 2008. A Connection between Finite- and Infinite-player Games. Working Paper
Yang, J. and X. Qi. 2007. On the Design of Coordinating Contracts. Working Paper
Yang, J., X. Qi, and Y. Xia. 2007. Nonatomic-game Models for Timing Clearance Sales Under Competition. Working Paper
Yang, J. and X. Qi. 2007. Lattice Theory, Stochastic Dominance, and Games with Strategic Complementarities. Working Paper
Yang, J. and Y.F. Chen. 2005. On Information Quality Ranking and Its Managerial Implications. Working Paper
Yang, J. and X. Qi. 2004. Managing Partially Controllable Raw Material Acquisition and Outsourcing in Production Planning. Working Paper

Journal Papers

Yang, J. and X. Zhang. 2009. Coordinated Dynamic Control of Marketing and Production. Naval Research Logistics, 56, pp. 348-365
Yang, J. and Y. Xia. 2009. Acquisition Management under Fluctuating Raw Material Prices. Production and Operations Management, 18, pp. 212-225
Yang, J. and Z. Qin. 2007. Capacitated Production Control with Virtual Lateral Transshipments. Operations Research, 55, pp. 1104-1119
Yang, J., X. Hu, and H. Zhang. 2007. Effects of a Reputation Feedback System on an Online C2C Auction Market. Decision Support Systems, 44, pp. 93-105
Yang, S., J. Yang, and L. Abdel-Malek. 2007. Sourcing with Stochastic Demand and Random Yields: A Newsvendor Approach. Computers and Operations Research, 34, pp. 3682-3690
Yang, J. and S. Yang. 2007. The Use of Premium Payment in a Supply Chain Involving Acquirable Capacity. European Journal of Operational Research, 181, pp. 207-223
Yang, J., X. Qi, Y. Xia, and G. Yu. 2006. Inventory Control with Markovian Capacity and the Option of Order Rejection. European Journal of Operational Research, 174, pp. 622-645
Yang, J., B. Golany, and G. Yu. 2005. A Concave-cost Production Planning Problem with Remanufacturing Options. Naval Research Logistics, 52, pp. 443-458
Yang, J., X. Qi, and G. Yu. 2005. Disruption Management in Production Planning. Naval Research Logistics, 52, pp. 420-442
Yang, J., X. Qi, and Y. Xia. 2005. A Production-inventory System with Markovian Capacity and Outsourcing Options. Operations Research, 53, pp. 328-349
Yang, J. and J. Y-T. Leung. 2005. A Generalization of the Weighted Set Covering Problem. Naval Research Logistics, 52, pp. 142-149
Yang, J., P. Jaillet, and H. Mahmassani. 2004. Real-time Multi-vehicle Truckload Pick-up and Delivery Problems. Transportation Science, 38, pp. 135-148
Yang, J. 2004. Production Control in the Face of Random Supply, Storable Raw Material, and an Outside Market. Operations Research, 52, pp. 293-311
Yang, J. and J. Y-T. Leung. 2003. The Ordered Open-end Bin Packing Problem. Operations Research, 51, pp. 759-770
Golany, B., Y. Xia, J. Yang, and G. Yu. 2002. An Interactive Goal Programming Procedure for Operational Recovery Problems. Optimization and Engineering, 3, pp. 109-127
Yang, J. and G. Yu. 2002. Some New Dynamic Economic Lot Sizing Models. Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems, Series B: Applications & Algorithms, 9, pp. 403-419
Yang, J. and G. Yu. 2002. On the Robust Single Machine Scheduling Problem. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 6, pp. 18-33
Golany, B., J. Yang, and G. Yu. 2001. Economic Lot-sizing with Remanufacturing Options. IIE Transactions, 33, pp. 995-1003
Yang, J., P. Jaillet, and H. Mahmassani. 1999. On-line Algorithms for Truck Fleet Assignment and Scheduling under Real-time Information. Transportation Research Record, 1667, pp. 107-113
Yu, G. and J. Yang. 1998. On the Robust Shortest Path Problem. Computers and Operations Research, 25, pp. 457-468

Conference Proceedings

Yang, J., L. Lei, and C. Fan. 2005. Effects of Errors in Production-Inventory Systems—The Advantage of RFID. Annual Meeting of the Northeast Region of the Decision Sciences Institute. Philadelphia, PA
Yang, S., J. Yang, and L. Abdel-Malek. 2004. Multi-supplier Sourcing with Random Yields: A Newsvendor Approach. The 13^th International Working Seminar on Production Econimics. Igls/Innsbruck, Austria

Book Chapters

· Qi, X., J. Yang, and G. Yu. 2004. Scheduling Problems in the Airline Industry. In Handbook of Scheduling: Algorithms, Models, and Performance Analysis, Joseph Y-T. Leung (Ed.), Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Ratan, FL, pp. 50:1-50:21

· Yu, G. and J. Yang. 1998. Optimization Applications in the Airline Industry. In Handbook of Combinatorial Optimization, D.-Z. Du and P.M. Pardalos (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell , MA, pp. 635-726

Unpublished Manuscripts

· Yang, J. 2006. Using Integer Programming to Identify Languages in NP/P. Working Paper, New Jersey Institute of Technology

· Yang, J. 2002. On Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems. Working Paper, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Research Funding

PI, Collaborative Research: The Nonatomic-game Approach to Revenue Management under Competition, National Science Foundation Grant CMMI-0854803, $249,592, September 2009—August 2012
PI (co-PI: Y. Xia), Inventory Management under Fluctuating Raw Material Prices, National Science Foundation Grant CMMI-0652942, $326,932, June 2007—May 2010
Investigator (PI: S. Chien; co-PI: L. Spasovic), Route Design Model for Project SWIFT—Phase I, Greyhound Lines, Inc., $35,410, January 2005—June 2005

PI (co-PI: J. Daniel; Investigator: A. Bladikas), Study of Optimal Travel Speed Limits for Shared Traffic, New Jersey Department of Transportation, $136,688 (and NJIT matching of $35,953), January 1, 2003—December 31, 2003
PI, Production Planning under Uncertain Supply, NJIT Separately Budgeted Research Grant, $20,000, July 20001—June 2002
PI, Policies for Real-time Vehicle Routing, NJIT Separately Budgeted Research Grant, $19,150 (and NCTIP matching of $19,150), July 2000--June 2001

Invited Talks

Rational Expectations Models in Revenue Management. September 2007, Center for Supply Chain Management, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
Coordinated Dynamic Control of Marketing and Production. January 2007, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
Managing Partially Controllable Raw Material Acquisition and Outsourcing in Production Planning. November 2005, Center for Supply Chain Management, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
Flexible Resource and Quality of Information. April 2005, Center for Supply Chain Management, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
Production Constraints and Remedial Options. February 2005, Departments of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Supply Chain Management & and Information, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Production Constraints and Remedial Options. October 2004, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Inventory Control under Capacity Limitations. July 2004, Center for Supply Chain Management, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
Inventory Control under Capacity Limitations. June 2004, Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Inventory Control involving Capacity. June 2004, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
The Effects of a Feedback System on an Electronic Market. February 2004, DuPree College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Results on Two Combinatorial Optimization Problems. October 2001, Rutgers Center for Operations Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Conference Presentations

INFORMS, October 2008, Washington, D.C.
OCSAMSE, July 2008, Shanghai, P.R. China
INFORMS, November 2007, Seattle, WA
INFORMS, November 2006, Pittsburgh, PA

· INFORMS International, June 2006, Hong Kong

INFORMS, November 2005, San Francisco, CA
INFORMS, October 2004, Denver, CO
INFORMS, October 2003, Atlanta, GA
INFORMS, November 2002, San Jose, CA
INFORMS, November 2001, Miami Beach, FL
INFORMS International, June 2001, Maui, HI
INFORMS, November 2000, San Antonio, TX
INFORMS, November 1999, Philadelphia, PA
INFORMS, October 1998, Seattle, WA
TRISTAN, June 1997, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Ph.D. Students

· Yifeng Liu: Joint Pricing-production Control under Fluctuating Raw Material Prices, targeting graduation in August 2012

· Mojisola Otegbeye: Addressing the Procurement and Inventory Decision in a Volatile Commodity Price Environment, targeting graduation in May 2010

· Godson Tetteh: Optimal Allocation of Blood Products, graduated in May 2008

· Yongqiang Yang (co-advising with Dr. J. Daniel): Optimal Speed Limit for Shared Traffic, graduated in August 2005

Zhaoqiong Qin: Topics on Supply Chain Management, graduated in May 2005

Other Experiences

Visiting Scholar. Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, December 2004-January 2005, June-July 2006
Visiting Scholar. Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, May-June 2004, June-July 2007, May-June 2008

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