Autor: Ikou Kaku

Yong Yin has been Associate Professor at Yamagata University, Japan, since 2004. He was previously Assistant Professor at the same university from 2002 to 2004. His research areas are manufacturing strategy; product development; workforce agility; and supply chain management. Ikou Kaku is a professor at the Department of Management Science and Engineering, Akita Prefectural University, Japan. His research interests are in human factors related to manufacturing; mathematical modeling and meta heuristics; data mining techniques and their application in inventory management; and supply chain management. Jiafu Tang is a professor at Northeastern University, Shenyang, China. He works in the Institute of Systems Engineering”s Key Laboratory of Integrated Automation of Process Industry of MOE. Jian Ming Zhu is a professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China. He works in the School of Information.