Yi Yang received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering Department from Fudan University in 1989, and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Information Science School of Northeastern University in 1999 and 2002 respectively. She is currently an associate professor in the Information School & Technology of Sun Yat-sen University. Her current research interests include complex system modeling and optimization, scheduling, intelligent algorithms and Artificial Life Computing meth- ods. She is a senior member of CCCF, and has published more than 50 papers in the fields of computer intelligence based decision and support. E-mail: issyy@mail.sysu.edu.cn