Conceptual Models For Explaining Process Behavior from Process Trends - Creativity Award

计算机在化学过程的设计、模拟、优化、控制和调度中已成为不可或缺的。然而，对于管理人员、操作工程师以及大型过程管理和控制系统的操作员来说，需要更充分地自动化高级思维过程的概念表示和计算模型还有待发现。提议的研究是关于创建必要的概念表示并将其实现为计算模型，以便管理自主过程控制系统的信息流。

Computers have become indispensable in the design, simulation, optimization, control, and scheduling of chemical processes. Yet, the conceptual representations and computational models needed to more fully automate the higher-level thought processes of the managers, operating engineers, and operators of large process management and control systems have yet to be found. %%% The proposed research is about creating the necessary conceptual representations and implementing them as computational models in order to manage the information flow of an autonomous process control system.