Yang Zhonghua
Associate Professor of School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Division of ICIS

Phone: (65) 6790 4450, Fax: (65) 6792 2971
Office: S2.1-B2-10
Email: ezhyang@ntu.edu.sg
Personal Website: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/eee/icis/cv/ezhyang.htm

Biography

Prior to the current appointment, Dr Yang had an extensive university and industry career which includes at Griffith University (Australia), University of Alberta (Canada), and Imperial College (London, UK), Distributed Systems Technology Center (DSTC), University of Queensland, Australia, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech). Dr. Yang spent a significant part of his professional life with the Ministry of Aerospace of China, serving in various senior positions.

Research Interest

Dr. YANG, Zhonghua has research interests in various aspects of Service-oriented and Grid Computing, Semantic Web Services, Autonomic (self-managed) service systems, and Multi Agent System. (More …)

Selected Research Projects

  • Automating Integration of Manufacturing and Service Systems for trusted Collaborative Virtual Enterprises; (A*STAR SERC TSRP GRANT, 2006-2009)
  • Integrative Serviceability Management and Supervisory Control of Networked Manufacturing Systems for Virtual Enterprises; (A*STAR SERC TSRP GRANT, 2006-2009)
  • Operational Transparent Virtual Grid Community Over Service-Oriented Grid. (A*STAR SERC GRANT ADMINISTERED THROUGH NGO, 2005-2007)

Selected Publications

  • Gang Chen, Zhonghua Yang, and Chor Ping Low. Coordinating Agents in Shop Floor Environments from a Dynamic Systems Perspective. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2006. (To appear).
  • Gang Chen, Zhonghua Yang, Hao He, and Kiah Mok Goh. Coordinating Multiple Agents via Reinforcement Learning. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 10(273-328), 2005. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  • Gang Chen, Zhonghua Yang, Hao He, and Kiah Mok Goh. Maintaining System State Information in a Multiagent Environment for effective Learning. The IEICE Transactions on Information & Systems, E88-D(127-134), 2005.
  • Zhonghua Yang, Jing-Bing Zhang, Robert Gay, and Liqun Zhuang. Building a Semantic rich Service-Oriented Manufacturing Environment. To appear in special issue, Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ). Also in M. Kitsuregawa et al., editor, The 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (Wise 2005), pages 623–632, New York, Nov 20-22 2005. LNCS 3806, Spring-verlag.
  • Zhonghua Yang, Jing Bing Zhang, Jiao Tao, and Robert Gay. Characterizing Services Composeability and OWL-S based Services Composition. In H. Zhuge and G.C. Fox, editors, The 4th International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2005), pages 244–249, Beijing, China, November 30-December 3 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences (LNCS 3795), Springer-Verlag.