Center for Materials Processing and Manufacturing



Publications

Selected Peer-Reviewed

Yang, Q, Zhang, N., and Hong, Y., “Statistical Reliability Analysis of Repairable Systems with Dependent Component Failures under Partially Perfect Repair Assumption,” IEEE Transactions on Reliability, in press.
pdf Yang, Q., Hong, Y., Chen, Y., and Shi, J., “Failure Profile Analysis of Complex Repairable Systems with Multiple Failure Modes,” IEEE Transactions on Reliability, vol. 61, pp 180-192, 2012.
pdf Yang, Q., and Jin, J., “Estimation of Individual Source Signals from Mixed Sensor Measurements,” IIE Transactions on Quality and Reliability Engineering, vol. 44, pp 780-792, 2012.
pdf Yang, Q., and Chen, Y., “Evaluation of Linear Sensor System Reliability Using Monte Carlo Methods,” IEEE Transactions on Reliability,Vol 60, pp 305-314, 2011.
pdf Yang, Q., and Chen, Y., “Reliability of Coordinate Sensor Systems under the Risk of increasing Measurement Variance,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol.7, pp 291-302, 2010.
pdf Yang, Q. and Jin, J., and Chang, T.S. “Automatic feature extraction and classification of surface defects for continuous casting processes,” Transactions of NAMRI/SME, vol.38, pp 563-570, 2010.
pdf Yang, Q., and Chen, Y., “Sensor System Reliability Modeling and Analysis for Fault Diagnosis in Multistage Manufacturing Processes,” IIE Transactions on Quality and Reliability Engineering, vol.41, pp 819-830, 2009.(IIE Trans. Best Paper Award, 2011)
pdf Yang, Q., Li, Q., Jin, J., and Chang, T.S., “On-line Classification of Surface Defects in Hot Rolling Processes," Transactions of NAMRI/SME, vol.37, pp 371-378, 2009.
pdf Chen, Y., and Yang, Q., “Reliability of Two-Stage Weighted-k-out-of-n Systems with Components in Common,” IEEE Transactions on Reliability, vol.54, pp 431-440, 2005.
pdf Yang, Q., and Wang, Z., “Moving Point Target Detection and Tracking under the Condition of Complex Background,” Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, vol.40, pp 256-260, 2004.(in Chinese)

Conference Proceedings

pdf Yang, Q., and Jin, J., “Separation of Individual Source Signals from Mixed Sensor Measurements,” Proceedings of the 2009 Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Miami, FL, pp 2253-2258, 2009. (IERC Best Paper Award)

Conference Organizer

1. Organizer/Chair of the session "Multivariate Data Analysis for Quality and Reliability Improvement," Annual INFORMS Conference, to be held, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Oct 6-9, 2013.
2. Organizer/Chair of the session "Fault Management for Complex Engineering Systems," Industrial Engineering Research Conference, to be held, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 18-22, 2013.
3. Organizer/Chair of the session "Advanced Multivariate Data Analysis," Annual INFORMS Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, Oct 14-17, 2012.
4. Organizer/Chair of the session "Mining data for quality and reliability improvement," INFORMS International Conference, Beijing, China, June 22-26, 2012.
5. Organizer/Chair of the session "Multivariate Statistical Methods for System Improvement," Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Orlando, Florida, May. 19-23, 2012.
6. Organizer/Chair of the session "Morning Diagnosis and Evaluation of Complex Systems," Annual INFORMS Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, Nov. 12-16, 2011.
7. Organizer/Chair of the session "Health Management of Complex Systems," Annual INFORMS Conference, Austin, TX, Nov. 7-10, 2010.
8. Organizer/Chair of the session "Advanced Multivariate Data Analysis," Annual INFORMS Conference, San Diego, CA, Oct. 11-14, 2009.