Travel Grant: FOCAPO 2008: Multi-Scale Integration of R&D, Manufacturing, and Optimization for Enterprise-Wide Operations

摘要：作者：Marianthi ierapetrititinstitution: Rutgers university提案号：0638947标题：FOCAPO 2008：研发、制造和企业范围内运营优化的多尺度集成这项旅行资助是对将于2008年夏季举行的第五届计算机辅助过程操作基础会议（FOCAPO）的支持。会议地点很可能在新英格兰。FOCAPO 2008将由CACHE和CAST赞助，INFORMS和APICS可能会提供额外的赞助。会议的目标是创建一个论坛，讨论流程建模和优化领域的主要贡献，并确定剩余的挑战。目标是扩展过程操作的边界，以包括更小和更大的尺度，并探索当建模同时考虑更小的尺度时出现的问题，低到分子水平，以及整个供应链。这次会议汇集了学术界和工业界的参与者，将为讨论过去、现在和潜在的未来成功，以及错过的机会和失败提供一个独特的环境。这应导致确定障碍和克服这些困难的有效方法，以便今后的工业过程操作遵循学术机构取得的进展。因此，重要的是要包括来自行业的参与者以及将成为该领域未来研究和实践者的学生。FOCAPO 2008计划至少有20名研究生参与。邀请和贡献论文的会议将包括在内，共计50多篇论文。FOCAPO 2008计划吸引大约150名参与者，学术和工业参与者几乎相等。由于这一主题的性质和全球化日益增加的影响，国际参与将是实质性的。知识价值：FOCAPO会议旨在促进思想交流，讨论过程操作问题的新模型、方法、解决程序和创新优化方法。学术界和工业界代表的互动特别重要，并应导致新的相关合作项目，以便确定工业中的实际新问题并宣传过去的学术进展。更广泛的影响：FOCAPO会议汇集了来自不同学科的人（学术界和工业界），特别是化学工程师、计算机科学家、运筹学、管理科学和工业工程，以解决过程操作领域紧迫的新问题。它们还确定了在制药、化工、食品和农业等行业实现最佳生产率的现有瓶颈。这将有利于美国工业和美国经济。

ABSTRACTPI: Marianthi IerapetritouInstitution: Rutgers UniversityProposal Number: 0638947Title: FOCAPO 2008: Multi-Scale Integration of R&D, Manufacturing, and Optimization for Enterprise-Wide OperationsThis travel grant is support for the fifth conference on Foundations of Computer Aided Process Operations (FOCAPO) that will take place during the summer of 2008. The location of the conference will be most likely New England. FOCAPO 2008 will be sponsored by CACHE and CAST with possible additional sponsorships from INFORMS and APICS. The objective of the conference will be to create a forum where the main contributions in the area of process modeling and optimization will be discussed and the remaining challenges identified. The goal to expand the boundaries of process operations to include both smaller and larger scales and probe the problems that arise when modeling simultaneously considers smaller scales, down to the molecular level, as well as the whole supply chain. Bringing together academic and industrial participants, the conference will be a unique environment for discussion of past, present and potential future successes, as well as missed opportunities and failures. This should lead to the identification of road blocks and efficient ways to overcome these difficulties so that the future industrial process operations follow the advances achieved at academic institutions. It is therefore important to include participants from both industry as well as students who will be the future researches and practitioners in this area.FOCAPO 2008 plans on participation by at least 20 graduate students. Invited and contributed papers' sessions will be included, for a total of more than 50 papers. FOCAPO 2008 plans to attract around 150 participants with almost equal academic and industrial participation. Due to the nature of the topic and the increasing effects of globalization, international participation will be substantial. Intellectual Merit:The FOCAPO conference aims at promoting the exchange of ideas and the discussion of novel models, methodologies, solution procedures and innovative optimization approaches for process operations problems. The interaction of academics and industrial representatives is of particular importance and should lead to new collaborative projects of relevance in order to identify practical new problems in industry and publicize past academic advances.Broader Impact:The FOCAPO conferences bring together people (academics and industrial) from different disciplines, in particular chemical engineers, computer scientists, operations research, management science and industrial engineering to address pressing new problems in the area of process operations. They also identify existing bottlenecks to optimal productivity in the pharmaceutical, chemical, food, and agricultural industries. This should benefit U.S. industry and the U.S. economy.