Book Chapters

  1. Caudill, R., Zhou, M. C., Hu, J. J., Tang, Y., and Limaye, K., "Demanufacturing System Simulation and Modeling," in Lifecycle Engineering: A Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Chapter 17, pp. 405-428, 2001.
  2. Tang, Y., and Zhou, M. C., “Human-in-the-Loop Disassembly Modeling and Planning,” Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing, S. M. Gupta and A. J. D. Lambert (Eds.), Taylor and Francis Group, 2008, pp.363-386.


Journals Articles (Peer Reviewed)

  1. Tang, Y., "Learning-based disassembly process planner for uncertainty management," IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics, Part A, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 134-143, 2009.
  2. Grochowski, D. and Tang, Y., "A Machine Learning Approach for Optimal Disassembly Planning," International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Volume 22, Issue 4 April 2009 , pages 374 - 383.
  3. Qiu, R., Tang, Y., and Joshi, S. B., "A process-driven computing model for reconfigurable semiconductor manufacturing," Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Vol. 24, pp. 709-721, 2008.
  4. Zhang, H. and Tang, Y., "Design and Modeling of an Interactive Mobile Aqua Probe and Surveillance (IMAPS) System," International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 256-264, 2007.
  5. Tang, Y. and Turowski, M., "Adaptive Fuzzy System for Disassembly Process Planning with Uncertainty," Journal of Chinese Institute of Industry Engineers, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 20-29, 2007.
  6. Tang, Y., and Zhou, M. C., "A Systematic Approach to Design and Operation of Disassembly Lines," IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 324-329, 2006.
  7. Tang, Y., Zhou, M. C., and Gao, M., "Fuzzy-Petri-Net Based Disassembly Planning Considering Human Factors," IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Part A, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 718-726, 2006.
  8. Zhang, H., Tang, Y., Courtney, R., and Mosto, P., "INTERACTIVE MOBILE AQUA PROBE & SURVEILLANCE (IMAPS) - A MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN PROJECT," World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp425-428, 2006.
  9. Qiu, R. Tang, Y. and Xu, Q., "Integration Design of Material Flow Management in an e-Business Manufacturing Environment," Journal of Decision Support Systems, Vol. 42, pp. 1104-1115, 2006.
  10. Jahan, K., Tang, G. and W. Riddell, "Hands on an Aquarium," World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education, Vol. 4, No.2, 2005, pp. 177.
  11. Tang, Y. and Qiu, R., "An Integrated Design Approach for Virtual-Production-Line-Based Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems," International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 42, No. 18, 2004, pp. 3803-3822. (SCI: 858EX, EI: 04438414994)
  12. Gao, M., Zhou, M. C., and Tang, Y., "Intelligent Decision Making in Disassembly Process Based on Fuzzy Reasoning Petri Nets," IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Part B, Vol. 34, No. 5, 2004, pp. 2029-2034. (SCI: 854XO, EI: 04428413777)
  13. Tang, Y. and Zhou, M. C., "Adaptive Reconfiguration of Semiconductor Manufacturing Systems with Maintenance and Failure Consideration," Accepted by International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, 2004. (EI)
  14. Tang, Y., Zhou, M. C and Qiu, R., "Virtual Production Line Design for Back-end Semiconductor Manufacturing System," IEEE Trans. on Semiconductor Manufacturing, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2003, pp.543-550. (SCI: 710TA, EI: 03367624217)
  15. Tang, Y., Zhou, M. C., Zussman, E. and Caudill, R., "Disassembly modeling, planning, and application", Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 21, No. 3., 2002, pp.200-217. (SCI: 645UR, EI: 04057992303)
  16. Tang, Y., Zhou, M. C. and Caudill, R., "An Integrated Approach to Disassembly Planning and Demanufacturing Operation," IEEE Trans. on Rob. & Aut., 17(6), December 2001, pp. 773-784. (SCI: 512RP, EI: 02076863941)


Peer Reviewed Conference Proceedings

  1. Ying Tang, Linda M. Head, Ravi P. Ramachandran, and Lawrence M. Chatman, "INTEGRATING SYSTEMS-ON-CHIP IN AN UNDERGRADUATE ECE CURRICULUM," To be appear in ASEE annual conference, June 14-17, 2009, Austin, TX.
  2. Ying Tang, Linda M. Head, Ravi P. Ramachandran, and Lawrence M. Chatman, "Vertical Integration of System-on-Chip Concepts in the Digital Design Curriculum," Proceedings of 2009 International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education, July 25-17, 2009, San Francisco, CA, pp.85-88.
  3. Kauser, J., Everett, J. W., Tang, Y., Farrell, S., Zhang, H., Wenger, A., and Noori, M., "A living system for teaching engineering principles," ASEE Mid-Atlantic Conference, April 24-25, 2009, Baltimore, MD.
  4. Tang, Y. and Zhang, H., "An Interactive Mobile Amphibious Probing and Surveillance System," Proc. of International Conference on Information and Automation, June 20-23, 2008, China, pp. 441-445.
  5. Tang, Y., "Unified Colored Timed Petri Net Models for the Adaptive Control of Disassembly Systems," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Washington D.C., Aug. 23-26, pp. 638-643.
  6. Tang, Y., and Grochowski, D., "An integrated design for human-in-the-loop disassembly," Proc. of the IEEE International Conf. on Networking, Sensing and Control, Sanya, China, April 6-8, 2008, pp. 774-779.
  7. Tang, Y., "An Analytical Model for Optimal Disassembly," Proc. of the Northeast Decision Sciences Institute Conference, March 28-30, 2008, New York, NY, pp.546-550.
  8. Grochowski, D. and Tang, Y., "Parameter Estimation for Optimal Disassembly Planning," Proc. of the IEEE International Conf. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Oct. 7-10, 2007, pp.2490-2495.
  9. Grochowski, D. and Tang, Y., "A learning strategy for disassembly process planning," Proc. of the IEEE International Conf. on Networking, Sensing and Control, London, United Kingdom, April 15-17, 2007, pp. 489-495.
  10. Grochowski, D. and Tang, Y., "A case study of optimal disassembly planning," Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing, June 18-20, Philadelphia, PA, 2007, pp. 531-538.
  11. Kauser Jahan, Mariano Savelski, Joseph Orlins, Yusuf Mehta, William Riddell, Stephanie Farrell, Brian LeFebvre, Y. Tang, Anthony Marchese, Paris von Lockette, Courtney Richmond, Catherine Yang, Beena Sukumaran, Patricia Mosto and Demond Miller (2007) "Sustainability Education for Undergraduates" Session 1526-NSF Grantees Poster Session, Annual ASEE Conference 2007, Honolulu, HI.
  12. Jahan, K., Tang, Y., and Riddell, W., "The aquarium project: teaching engineering principles and sustainability," the Annual ASEE Conference 2007, Honolulu, HI.
  13. Zhang, H., Tang, Y., Courtney, R., and Mosto, P., "IMAPS - A Multidisciplinary Aquatic Robot Project," the Annual ASEE Conference, Honolulu, HI, 2007.
  14. Tang, Y. and Renner, P., "An on-line probabilistic paradigm for optimal disassembly planning," Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, June 21-23, 2006, Shanghai, China, pp. 770-774.
  15. Tang, Y and Zhou, M. C., "Learning-Embedded Disassembly Petri Net for Process Planning," IEEE International Conf. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Oct. 8-11, 2006, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 80-85.
  16. Karnick, M., McBride, J., McGinnis, S., Tang, Y. and Ramachandran, R., "A Quantitative Analysis of Java Obfuscation," Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA 2006), Dallas, TX, Nov. 13-15, 2006, pp.166-171.
  17. Tang, Y., "A Memory Fuzzy Learning for Uncertainty Management in Disassembly," accepted by IEEE International Conf. on Networking, Sensing and Control, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A. April 23-25, 2006. (EI)
  18. Zhang, H., Tang, Y., Courtney, R., and Mosto, P., "Building an Interactive Mobile Aqua Probe System," Accepted by the Annual ASEE Conference, Chicago, IL, June 18-21, 2006. (EI)
  19. Zhang, H., Tang, Y., Courtney, R., and Mosto, P., "Robotic Aqua Sensor - An Multidisciplinary Project," Accepted by the Annual ASEE Conference, Chicago, IL. June 18-21, 2006. (EI)
  20. Ramachandran, R., Jansson, P., Tang, Y., Schmalzel, J. L., Mandayam, S. A., Krchnavek, R. R., Head, L. M., Polikar, R. and Ord??ez, R., "THE ROLE OF THE ENGINEERING CLINIC IN PROMOTING AN AGILE ECE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT," Accepted by the Annual ASEE Conference, Chicago, IL. June 18-21, 2006.(EI)
  21. MacBride, J., Mascioli, C., Marks, S., Tang, Y., Head, M. L., Ramachandran, R. P., "A comparative study of Java obfuscators," Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA 2005), Phoenix, AZ, Nov. 14-16, 2005, pp.82-86.
  22. Turowski, M., Morgan, M., and Tang, Y., "Disassembly Line Design with Uncertainty," Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics, Oct. 10-12, 2005, Big Island, Hawaii, pp. 954-959. (EI: 05489514901)
  23. Tang, Y. and Rosentrater, K., "A Case Study of Modeling Organic Waste Stream Reprocessing," Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics, Oct. 10-12, 2005, Big Island, Hawaii, pp. 948-953. (EI: 05489514900)
  24. Rosentrater, K., and Tang, Y., "Developing a framework for applying disassembly planning and demanufacturing modeling to organic processing waste streams," Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing IV, Oct 23-26, 2005, Boston, MA. (EI)
  25. Tang, Y. and Rosentrater, K., "A Framework for Modeling Organic Waste Stream Reprocessing," Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, Aug. 10-12, 2005, Beijing, China.
  26. Tang, Y., Head, M. L., Mandayam, S., and Jahan, K., "Attracting women into electrical and computer engineering," Proc. of ASEE Annual Conference, Session 3592, Portland, OR, June 12-15, 2005. (EI: 05319270368)
  27. Turowski, M., Tang, Y., and Morgan, M., "Analysis of an adaptive fuzzy system for disassembly process planning," Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment, May 16-19, 2005, New Orleans, LA, pp. 249-254. (EI: 05509547415)
  28. Turowski, M. and Tang, Y., "Adaptive fuzzy system for disassembly process planning," Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Networking, Sensing and Control, March 19-22, 2005, Tucson, AZ, pp141-146.
  29. Tang, Y. and Zhou, M. C., "Fuzzy-Petri-Net Based Disassembly Planning Considering Human Factors," Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on System, Man & Cybernetics, October 10-13, 2004, The Hague, The Netherlands, pp. 4195-4200. (EI: 051490283450)
  30. Tang, Y. and Turowski, M., "Human cognitive analysis of disassembly planning using fuzzy Petri nets," Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, v 5583, Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing IV, Oct 25-28, 2004, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 23-30. (EI: 05179056102)
  31. Tang, Y., Ludivig J. U., Tobi M., and Tosh K., "Simulation of a disassembly-to-order system," Proc. of ASEE Annual Conference, Session 157, Salt Lake City, UT, June 20-23, 2004, pp. 12633-12640. (EI: 04448428162)
  32. Tan, J. D. and Tang, Y., "Intelligent Cooperative Control of Wireless Networked Mobile Robotic Systems," Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Flexible Automation & Intelligent Manufacturing, pp. 424-432, July 12-14, 2004, Toronto, Canada.
  33. Jahan, K., Savelski, M., Orlins, J. Mehta, Y. Riddell, W. Farrell, S. Tang, Y., Marchese, A. Lockette, P., Richmond, C. Yang, C. Sukumaran, B., Mosto, P. and Miller, D., "Undergraduate research in pollution prevention and sustainability," Proc. of ASEE Annual Conference, June 7-10, 2005, Portland, OR, pp. 14663-14666. (EI: 05319271507)
  34. Jahan, K., Savelski, M., Orlins, J. Mehta, Y. Riddell, W. Farrell, S. Tang, Y., Marchese, A. Lockette, P., Richmond, C. Yang, C. Sukumaran, B., Mosto, P. and Miller, D., "Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Pollution Prevention and Sustainability," Proc. of ASEE Annual Conference, June 7-10, 2005, Portland, OR.
  35. Jahan, K., Savelski, M., Orlins, J. Mehta, Y. Riddell, W. Farrell, S. Tang, Y., Marchese, A. Lockette, P., Richmond, C. Yang, C. Sukumaran, B., Mosto, P. and Miller, D, "Pollution Prevention and Sustainability Initiatives for Undergraduates," the Engineering Sustainability 2005 Conference, Pittsburg, PA.
  36. Jahan, K., Savelski, M., Orlins, J. Mehta, Y. Riddell, W. Farrell, S. Tang, Y., Marchese, A. Lockette, P., Richmond, C. Yang, C. Sukumaran, B., Mosto, P. and Miller, D, "Environmental Education in Pollution Prevention and Sustainability Development," the Annual AWMA Conference, Minneapolis, MN.
  37. Jahan, K., Savelski, M., Orlins, J. Mehta, Y. Riddell, W. Farrell, S. Tang, Y., Marchese, A. Lockette, P., Richmond, C. Yang, C. Sukumaran, B., Mosto, P. and Miller, D (2004) "Research Experiences in Pollution Prevention and Sustainability for Undergraduates," Proc. of the ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Meeting, Washington D.C.
  38. Jahan, K., Savelski, M., Orlins, J. Mehta, Y. Riddell, W. Farrell, S. Tang, Y., Marchese, A. Lockette, P., Richmond, C. Yang, C. Sukumaran, B., Mosto, P. and Miller, D., "Undergraduate Research Experiences in Pollution Prevention and Sustainability," Proceedings of 36th Annual Mid-Atlantic Industrial and Hazardous Waste Conference, Oct. 2-10, 2004, Storrs, CT.
  39. Jahan, K., Savelski, M., Orlins, J. Mehta, Y. Riddell, W. Farrell, S. Tang, Y., Marchese, A. Lockette, P., Richmond, C. Yang, C. Sukumaran, B., Mosto, P. and Miller, D., "Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Pollution Prevention and Sustainability," Proceedings of the 3rd ASEE International Colloquium on Engineering Education, September 7-10, 2004, Beijing, China.
  40. Jahan, K., Tang, Y., Gatling, S., and Freeman, K., "Undergraduate Research Experience in Pollution Prevention," Proceedings of the Fall 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Middle Atlantic Section Conference, Section 1234, Baltimore, MD, Oct. 24-25, 2003.
  41. Tang, Y. and Gatling, S., "Modeling and Planning Disassembly Processes of Electronic Products" Proceedings of 35th Annual Mid-Atlantic Industrial and Hazardous Waste Conference, Brooklyn, NY, Aug. 27-28, 2003.
  42. Tang, Y. and Qiu, R. G., "Modeling and Analysis of Failure Prone Machines in Virtual-Production-Line-Based Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems," Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Control and Automation, Montreal, Canada, June 9-12, 2003, pp. 73-77. (EI: 05379356498)
  43. Qiu, R. G. and Tang, Y., "Integration Design of Material Flow Management in an e-Business Manufacturing Environment," Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Production Research, Aug. 3-7, 2003, Blacksburg, VA.
  44. Qiu, R. G. and Tang, Y., "Real Life Examples for a Class of Professionals," Proceedings of 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, June 20-25, 2003, Nashville, Tennessee, pp. 1891-1900. (EI: 04498697296)
  45. Wei, W. and Tang, Y., "A Generic Neural Network Approach for Filling Missing Data in Data Mining," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, Washington D.C., Oct. 5-8, 2003, pp. 862-867. (EI: 03487750847)
  46. Tang, Y., "An Integrated Approach to Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems Design," Proc. of the 6th World Multi-conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Information, July 14-18, 2002, Orlando, FL, pp. 289-294.
  47. Tang, Y. and Zhou, M. C., "Design of Reconfigurable Semiconductor Manufacturing Systems with Maintenance and Failure," Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Rob. & Aut., Seoul, Korea, May 21-26, 2001, pp.559-563. (EI: 01416683766)
  48. Tang, Y., Zhou, M. C. and Caudill, R., "A systematic approach to disassembly line design," Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Electrical & Environment, Denver, CO, May 7-9, 2001, pp. 173-178. (EI: 01446710846)
  49. Tang, Y., Zhou, M. C., Zussman, E. and Caudill, R., "Disassembly modeling, planning, and application: a review," Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Rob. & Aut., San Francisco, CA, April 22-28, 2000, pp. 2197-2202. (EI: 00085275746)
  50. Tang, Y., Zhou, M. C. and Caudill, R., "An Integrated Approach to Disassembly Planning and Demanufacturing Operation," Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Electronics & the Environment, San Francisco, CA, May 8-10, 2000, pp. 354-359. (EI: 01246536366)
  51. Tang, Y., Zhou, M. C. and Qiu, R., "Design of Virtual Production Lines in Back-end Semiconductor Manufacturing Systems," Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on System, Man & Cybernetics, Nashville, Tennessee, Oct. 8-11, 2000, pp. 1733-1738. (EI: 001254575580)


Technical Reports

  1. Tang, Y., "A SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION TO DISCARDED ELECTRONICS," Lindback Foundation, 2009.
  2. Tang, Y., "Developing an Analytical Model for Electronics Disassembly to Make Electronics Recycling Safer and More Automated," Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation, 2008.
  3. Tang, Y., Ramachandran, R., McBride, J., Karnick, M., and McGinnis, S., "A Quantitative Analysis of Java Obfuscation," Lockheed Martin, 2006.
  4. Tang, Y. and Head, L. (2004) "Real Time Java vs. C++", Lockheed Martin.
  5. Tang, Y., Head, L., Ramachandran, R., Mascioli, C., McBride, J., Marks, S., "Analysis of Java Obfuscators," Lockheed Martin

Poster Presentations

  1. Ying Tang, Linda M. Head, Ravi P. Ramachandran, and Lawrence M. Chatman, "A Collaborative Proposal to Integrate System-on-Chip Concepts in Two Year Engineering Science and Four Year ECE Curricula", CCLI PI Conference, Washington D. C, Aug. 13-15, 2008.
  2. Kauser Jahan, Mariano Savelski, Joseph Orlins, Yusuf Mehta, William Riddell, Stephanie Farrell, Brian LeFebvre, Y. Tang, Anthony Marchese, Paris von Lockette, Courtney Richmond, Catherine Yang, Beena Sukumaran, Patricia Mosto and Demond Miller (2006) "RESEARCH EXPERIENCES IN POLLUTION PREVENTION AND SUSTAINABILITY," Proc. of the Annual ASEE Conference, Chicago, IL. June 18-21, 2006, Section 1526-NSF Grantees Poster Session.
  3. MacBride, J., Mascioli, C., Marks, S., Tang, Y., Head, M. L., Ramachandran, R. P., "Code Obfuscation," Annual STEM Symposium, Rowan University, April 2005.
  4. Turowski, M., Morgan, M., and Tang, Y., "Modeling Human Factors in Disassembly Process Planning and Line Balancing," Annual STEM Symposium, Rowan University, April 2005.
  5. Jahan, K., Savelski, M., Orlins, J. Mehta, Y. Riddell, W. Farrell, S. Tang, Y., Marchese, A. Lockette, P., Richmond, C. Yang, C. Sukumaran, B., Mosto, P., and Miller, D., "Research Experiences in Pollution Prevention and Sustainability," the 36th Annual Mid-Atlantic Industrial and Hazardous Waste Conference, Storrs, Connecticut, 2004.
  6. Jahan, K., Savelski, M., Orlins, J. Mehta, Y. Riddell, W. Farrell, S. Tang, Y., Marchese, A. Lockette, P., Richmond, C. Yang, C. Sukumaran, B., Mosto, P. and Miller, D., "Research Experiences in Pollution Prevention and Sustainability," the 3rd ASEE International Colloquium on Engineering Education, September 7-10, 2004, Beijing, China.
  7. Jahan, K., J.W. Everett, J. Orlins, R.P. Hesketh, S. Farrell, Y. Mehta, K. Hollar, Y. Tang, Y. Mehta and M. Savelski, "REU in Pollution Prevention at Rowan University", Poster Presentation, ASEE Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, June 20-23, 2004.
  8. Turowski, M, Mascioli, C. A., Berenbach, J., Johnson, A., Tang, Y., Head, L. M., and Cloutier, R., "Real Time Java vs. C++," Annual STEM Symposium, Rowan University, April 2004
  9. Kanach, C. and Tang, Y. "Intelligent Network Protocol Design," Annual STEM Symposium, Rowan University, April 2004.
  10. Jahan, K., J.W. Everett, J. Orlins, R.P. Hesketh, S. Farrell, Y. Mehta, K. Hollar, Y. Tang, Y. Mehta and M. Savelski, "REU Site in Pollution Prevention at Rowan University", Poster Presentation, 2003 Engineering & Education Computing Program Grantee Meeting, NSF, Washington D.C., September 2003.