Feng-Cheng Yang Feng-Cheng Yang is currently an associate
professor in the Institute of Industrial Engineering at National Taiwan
University. He received the Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from
National Taiwan University, in 1980, and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical
Engineering from the University of Iowa, USA, in 1991. His present research
interests include various heuristics techniques for solving industrial
optimization problems. Recently, his focus is the newly developed Bandwidth
Restricted Transmission-Simulated Optimization Algorithm for various
optimization problems. He has developed several software systems covering
various heuristics: ant colony optimization algorithms, electromagnetism-like
mechanism, genetic algorithms, wrapped-round self-organizing maps, water
flow-like algorithm etc. These systems are developed to facilitate academic
research and teaching. Various benchmark problems frequently used for new
algorithm verification are included in these systems.