Applications of computers in industrial environments

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The objectives of the proposed research are to investigate selected theoretical and experimental topics related to the application of computers in an industrial milieu. This is a continuation and a development on a new level of the applicant's on-going research works. This research area 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 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, virtualization and autonomic computing 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 provide supervision and control applications across the enterprise. Consequently, for the present phase of our research, we propose to investigate new distributed computing models disrupting the traditional way of offering services and applications at the enterprise level. The research will be focused on 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.By analogy with the communication equipment we call information fabric the blending of communication and computing resources in a web based service. We therefore investigate subjects related to the architecture and its components, in which the control of the information fabric is central. We consider the fabric being formed by on-the-cloud clusters controlled by autonomic computing servers endowed with special self-organizing algorithms. These subjects will be the objectives of this proposal. A part of our research efforts will be dedicated to the investigation of reconfigurable architectures as applied to the control of information fabric.