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

摘要：Marianthi Ierapetritou机构：罗格斯大学提案编号：0638947标题：FOCAPO 2008：企业范围内运营的研发、制造和优化的多尺度集成这项旅行赠款是对将于2008年夏天举行的第五届计算机辅助过程操作基础(FOCAPO)会议的支持。会议的地点很可能是新英格兰。2008年FOCAPO将由CACHE和CAST赞助，并可能得到INFORMS和APICS的额外赞助。会议的目标将是建立一个论坛，在这里讨论流程建模和优化领域的主要贡献，并确定剩余的挑战。目标是将流程操作的边界扩展到包括更小和更大的规模，并探索当建模同时考虑更小规模时出现的问题，向下延伸到分子水平，以及整个供应链。这次会议汇聚了学术界和产业界的与会者，将是一个独特的环境，可以讨论过去、现在和未来的成功以及错失的机会和失败。这将导致确定障碍和克服这些困难的有效方法，从而使未来的工业过程运作遵循学术机构取得的进展。因此，重要的是包括这两个行业的参与者以及将成为这一领域未来研究和实践者的学生。FOCAPO 2008计划至少有20名研究生参加。将包括受邀和来稿的论文会议，总共有50多篇论文。FOCAPO 2008计划吸引大约150名与会者，学术界和产业界的参与度几乎相等。由于这一专题的性质和全球化的日益影响，国际参与将是实质性的。知识价值：FOCAPO会议旨在促进思想的交流和对过程操作问题的新模型、方法学、解决程序和创新优化方法的讨论。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，以确定工业界的实际新问题并宣传过去的学术进展。广泛影响：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。他们还确定了制药、化工、食品和农业行业实现最佳生产率的现有瓶颈。这应该会让美国的工业和美国经济受益。

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.