Applications of computers in industrial environments

拟议研究的目标是调查选定的理论和实验课题有关的计算机在工业环境中的应用，作为申请人正在进行的研究工作的一个新的水平上的延续和发展。与计算机在工业环境中的应用有关的研究领域在过去几年中在硬件和软件方面都发生了巨大的变化和演变。CRM、ERP、BI等复杂的企业监控应用将计算机技术推向了新的边界。分布式计算模式的最新发展从根本上改变了企业监控体系结构的设计方式。政府部门和企业越来越多地采用基于云的服务，这需要新的架构模型，而用户移动性和协作等新维度已经将该领域的研究推向了极端。行业分析师（Gartner Quadrants）报告称，企业迫切需要融合、协作、统一和自我管理的产品或平台，能够无缝统一整个企业的计算机监控应用程序。因此，在我们的研究的现阶段，我们建议研究新的分布式计算模型，从根本上破坏了传统的方式提供服务和应用程序在企业级。在企业运营和管理过程中使用混合的移动的和固定计算设备需要新的通信和分布式计算原理、算法和协议。 因此，我们的目标是，在调查的基础和实验方面的自主计算，点对点，网络服务和云计算技术的新模型在企业监督和控制架构的设计。我们还将研究上述通用融合、统一和协作环境的设计。我们研究工作的一部分还将致力于研究应用于企业监督和控制的可重构架构，作为当前研究工作的延续。

The objectives of the proposed research are to investigate selected theoretical and experimental topics related to the application of computers in an industrial milieu as a continuation and a development on a new level of the applicant's on-going research works. The research area related to applications of computers in industrial environment witnessed dramatic changes and evolutions in the last few years on both the hardware and software sides. Complex applications for the enterprise supervision and control, such as CRM, ERP, BI, etc pushed and push the computer technologies towards new boundaries. Recent evolutions in the distributed computing paradigm fundamentally changed the way that enterprise supervision and control architectures were designed. Growing adoption of cloud based services by government departments and enterprises requires new architectural models, while new dimensions such as user mobility and collaboration have stretched the research in this field at its extremes. Industry analysts (Gartner Quadrants) report that there is a strong need for converged, collaborative, unified and self-managed products or platforms capable to seamlessly unify the computer supervision and control applications across the enterprise. Consequently, for the present phase of our research, we propose to investigate new distributed computing models, which fundamentally disrupt the traditional way of offering services and applications at the enterprise level. The usage of mixed mobile and fixed computing devices in enterprise operations and management processes requires new communications and distributed computing principles, algorithms, and protocols. We are aiming therefore, at investigating fundamental and experimental aspects of new models for autonomic computing, peer-to-peer, web-services and cloud computing technologies in the design of enterprise supervision and control architectures. We will also investigate the design of generic converged, unified, and collaborative environments for the above. A part of our research efforts will also be dedicated to the investigation of reconfigurable architectures as applied to the supervision and control of enterprises as a continuation of present research efforts.