Conference on Optimization in Industry; Palm Coast, FL; March 23-27, 1997

*9614041 Belegundu Mistree这笔赠款提供部分支持，用于举办一次关于在工业中使用最优化的研讨会，特别是在与工程设计有关的应用中。研讨会将汇集工程师、数学家、运筹学专家和学术界的研究人员，讨论当前优化应用的局限性，并提供有助于扩大当前应用的研究议程。讨论还将研究在工业中扩大使用优化的其他障碍，并提出克服这些障碍的解决方案。将邀请来自航空航天、汽车、土木、化学和机械工程学科的代表。制成品的竞争力往往取决于设计上的微妙之处，而这些细微之处有待优化。优化可以使产品在使用中性能更好，制造成本更低，并具有更高的可靠性和更低的环境影响。然而，到目前为止，研究新的优化技术的学术界与可能使用这些技术的行业之间存在着脱节。其结果是，优化技术在工业中的应用大大落后于新方法的发展。这次研讨会旨在弥合这一差距，并设法使当前该领域的研究更适用于工业，并将工业纳入研究议程设定过程，以便未来的进展更符合工业的需要。***

*** 9614041 Belegundu Mistree This grant provides partial support to conduct a workshop on the use of optimization in industry, particularly in applications relating to engineering design. The workshop will bring together engineers, mathematicians, operations research specialists, and researchers from academe to discuss current limitations on the applications of optimization and to provide a research agenda that could help to broaden current applications. The discussion will also examine other roadblocks to the expanded use of optimization in industry and propose solutions to overcoming these roadblocks. Representatives from the aerospace, automotive, civil, chemical, and mechanical disciplines of engineering will be invited. Competitiveness of manufactured products often depends on design subtleties that are subject to optimization. Optimization can enable products to perform better in use, be manufactured at lower cost, and have improved reliability and lower environmental impact. To date, however, there has been a disconnect between the academic communities researching new optimization techniques and the industries that potentially would use them. The result has been that the applications of optimization techniques in industry has substantially lagged the development of new methods. This workshop seeks to bridge this gap and find ways to make current research in the field more applicable to industry, and to bring industry into the research agenda-setting process so that future advances are more relevant to the need of industry. ***