Research Conference Proposal: Chemical Process Control IV

这是关于当代过程控制的一系列国际会议的第四次会议。会议将要求来自大学和工业界的工程师和科学家提供一个论坛，以评估过程控制领域的现状和未来需求和挑战。前三次CPC会议非常成功地在控制理论家和工业实践者之间建立了这种建设性的对话。本次会议的主题是：过程控制的未来需求和挑战。CPC IV的具体目标如下：(1)了解每个过程工业的过程控制实践状态，并从工业中获得研究界未来需求和挑战的清单。(2)以非专业人员和工业从业人员能够理解的方式，概述过程控制理论和实践的每个重要领域的最新技术状况。(3)为大学研究人员和行业从业者就该领域的实际挑战以及当前研究方向在多大程度上满足感知需求提供深入讨论的论坛。(4)让行业从业者更好地理解研究界提供的新工具，以便在这些工具有用的地方模拟更广泛的实施。(5)模拟研究界通过(a)更好地理解过程工业的感知需求和挑战以及(b)对过程控制研究其他领域的新知识概念的教程介绍来调整研究方向。

This is the fourth in a continuing series of international conferences on contemporary process control. The conference will enjoin engineers and scientists from universities and industry to provide a forum for assessing both the current status and future needs and challenges in the field of process control. The first three CPC conferences were very successful in establishing such a constructive dialogue between control theoreticians and industrial practitioners. The theme of the proposed conference is: Future Needs and Challenges in Process Control. The specific goals of CPC IV are as follows: (1) To gain an appreciation of the state of process control practice in each of the process industries and to obtain from industry a list of future needs and challenges for the research community. (2) To present an overview of the state of the art in each of the important areas of process control theory and practice, in a way which is understandable to the non-specialist and industrial practioner. (3) To provide a forum for in-depth discussion between university researchers and industrial practitioners on the practical challenges in this field and the extent to which current research directions are satisfying perceived needs. (4) To allow the industrial practitioner a better understanding of the new tools available from the research community in order to simulate wider implementation where these are useful. (5) To simulate the research community to adjust research directions through (a) a better understanding of perceived needs and challenges from the process industry and (b) a tutorial introduction to new intellectual concepts in other areas of process control research.