Courses

• BUSAD 525
• OPMGT 510

 

Research Interests

• Network efficiency, network performance measurement
• Network reliability and robustness under uncertainty and their environmental impacts
• Network vulnerability with applications to supply chains, transportation networks, financial networks, electric power supply chains

Citations

Articles in Scholarly Journals

Qiang, Q. Supply Chain Network Design for Critical Needs with Outsourcing (with A. Nagurney and M. Yu). Papers in Regional Science, Accepted.
Qiang, Q. Fragile Networks: Identifying Vulnerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain Age (with A. Nagurney). International Transactions in Operational Research, Accepted.
Qiang, Q.  Environmental Impact Assessment of Transportation Networks with Degradable Links in an Era of Climate Change (with A. Nagurney), International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 4: (2009),154-171.
Qiang, Q.  Multiproduct Supply Chain Horizontal Network Integration: Models, Theory, and Computational Results (with A. Nagurney and T. Woolley), International Transactions in Operational Research, 17 (2010), 333-349.
Qiang, Q.  An Efficiency Measure for Dynamic Networks with Application to the Internet and Vulnerability Analysis (with A. Nagurney), Netnomics 9: (2008), 1-20.
Qiang, Q.  A Relative Total Cost Index for the Evaluation of Transportation Network Robustness in the Presence of Degradable Links and Alternative Travel Behavior (with A. Nagurney), International Transactions in Operational Research 16: (2009), 46-67.
Qiang, Q.  A Unified Network Performance Measure with Importance Identification and the Ranking of Network Components (with A. Nagurney), Optimization Letters 2: (2008) 127-142.
Qiang, Q.  A Network Efficiency Measure with Application to Critical Infrastructure Networks (with A. Nagurney), Journal of Global Optimization 40: (2008) 261-275.
Qiang, Q.  A Network Efficiency Measure for Congested Networks (with A. Nagurney), Europhysics Letters 79: (2007) 38005.
Qiang, Q.  Robustness of Transportation Networks Subject to Degradable Links (with A. Nagurney), Europhysics Letters 80: (2007) 68001.

Books

Qiang, Q.  Fragile Networks: Identifying Vulnerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain World (with A. Nagurney). John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, 2009. 
 
Conference Proceedings

A Knowledge Collaboration Network Model Across Disciplines (with A. Nagurney), Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, & Prediction, Lecture Notes on Computer Science, S.-K. Chai, J. Salerno, and P. L. Mabry, Editors, Springer.
System-Optimized Transportation Network with Disruption Hedging Investment, Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Management Science, Chengdu, China, July 9-11, 2010.
Qiang, Q.  A Transportation Network Efficiency Measure that Captures Flows, Behavior, and Costs with Applications to Network Component Importance Identification and Vulnerability (with A. Nagurney), Proceedings of the POMS 18th Annual Conference, Dallas, Texas, May 4 - 7, 2007.
Qiang, Q.  Chinese Perceptions on Web site Design Quality (with Y.H. Lee), Proceedings of AMCIS 2003, Tampa, Florida, August 4 – 6, 2003.