Chunfeng Liu
School of Management, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China; Tourism College of Zhejiang, Hangzhou, China
China

Chunfeng Liu was born in 1977. He received his B.S. degree from School of Mechanical Engineering of Nanjing University of chemical industry in 1999, and M.S. degree from School of Management of Zhejiang University in 2004.

He serves as an associate professor at Tourism College of Zhejiang China. In addition, he is currently a doctoral student at School of Management of Hefei University of Technology. His major research interests are production planning and scheduling of discrete manufacturing systems.

Shanlin Yang
School of Management, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China
China

Shanlin Yang was born in 1948. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from School of Computer and Information Engineering of Hefei University of Technology in 1982 and 1985, respectively.

He has been a professor and Ph.D. advisor at Hefei University of Technology since 1997, where he has served successively as a dean of School of Management, vice president, director of Institution of Computer Network Systems since 1994. He conducted cooperating research at the University of Melbourne, Australia, from 1986 to 1987. His research interests include information management, decision support systems, scheduling, supply chain management and so on. He has chaired more than 30 projects from National Natural Science Foundation of China, National High Technology Research and Development Program 863 of China and so on. Moreover, he has won the second prize of China National Prize for Progress in Science and Technology.