WORKSHOP: PRISM Symposium on Integration, Networking, and the Next Decade; August 9-11, 2001; West Lafayette, Indiana

本次研讨会的主要目标是确定将传统工业工程环境转变为新型工业工程工作和服务的研究问题，即电子工作。e-Work的范围包括在高度分布式的人类和/或机器人组织或自主软件代理（如基于代理的制造、工作流和企业建模以及中间件开发）中协作的计算机支持的活动和通信支持的操作。前提是，如果没有有效的电子工作，新兴的电子工作活动，如虚拟制造、电子供应链和电子商务的潜力就不能有竞争力地实现。在普渡大学举行的为期两天半的研讨会上，该奖项为研讨会和参与者的费用提供部分支持，该研讨会将讨论生产、机器人和制造/管理集成软件（PRISM）研究方向的过去、现在和未来前沿。本次会议将汇集以前和现在的PRISM研究人员，在面向计算机的协作工作方面有经验的行业从业者，以及实施增强技术的赞助商，以比较想法，经验和挑战。讲习班将通过对过去和目前研究的调查审查以及通过关于下一个十年先进生产研究的小组讨论来制定研究指导。目标是在七个领域寻求解决方案：(1)工程和设计协作，(2)网络化企业的分布式模型，(3)装配和检测技术，(4)基于代理的制造和服务系统，(5)电子商务和使能技术，(6)基于网络的人机交互，以及(7)上述领域的信息保障。通过开发和分享新的先进生产研究模型，并为研究人员提供一个讨论、交流和计划他们的发现的论坛，这些结果和程序将使普渡PRISM实验室和其他大学的研究人员受益。

This symposium's primary objective is to identify research issues that transform the traditional industrial engineering environment to a new kind of industrial engineering work and services considered as e-Work. The scope of e-Work includes the collaborative computer-supported activities and communication-supported operations in highly distributed organizations of humans and/or robots or autonomous software agents such as agent-based manufacturing, workflow and enterprise modeling, and middleware development. The premise is that without effective e-Work, the potential of emerging electronic work activities such as virtual manufacturing, e-supply chain, and e-commerce cannot be competitively materialized. This award provides partial support of the symposium and participants' expenses during a two and one half day workshop at Purdue University on the past, present, and next frontier in the research direction of Production, Robotics, and Integration Software for Manufacturing/Management (PRISM). This meeting will bring together previous and current PRISM researchers, industry practitioners who have experience in computer-oriented collaborative work, and sponsors who have implemented enhanced technologies to compare ideas, experiences, and challenges.The workshop will develop research guidance by survey review of previous and current research and through panel discussions on advanced production research for the next decade. The aim is towards solutions in seven areas: (1) engineering and design collaboration, (2) distributed models of networked enterprises, (3) assembly and inspection technology, (4) agent-based manufacturing and service systems, (5) electronic commerce and enabling technologies, (6) web-based human and computer interaction, and (7) information assurance for the above areas. The results and proceedings will benefit researchers at the Purdue PRISM Lab and at other universities by developing and sharing new advanced production research models and by providing a forum for researchers to discuss, exchange, and plan their discoveries.