Pengarang: Way Kuo

Professor Way Kuo, City University of Hong Kong Professor Kuo is President and Distinguished Professor of City University of Hong Kong. He served as Distinguished Professor and Dean of Engineering at the University of Tennessee between 2003 and 2008, and between 2000 and 2003 he held the Wisenbaker Chair of Engineering in Innovation and was the Executive Associate Dean of Engineering at Texas A&M University. Professor Kuo is recipient of the IEEE Reliability Society Lifetime Achievement Award, and now serves as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Reliability. He has co-authored six textbooks and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, Academia Sinica (Taiwan), ad International Academy for Quality. He is a fellow of ASQ, ASA, IEEE, INFORMS and IIE. Professor Xiaoyan Zhu, University of Tennessee, USA Professor Zhu is an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Information Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in mathematical programming and operations research, for example Operations Research I (Linear Programming), Inventory Control, Production Planning, and Advanced Nonlinear Programming. Professor Zhu has published several papers related to importance measures, and she is a member of INFORMS, IIE, and IEEE.