Applications of computers in industrial environments

拟议研究的目标是调查与计算机在工业环境中的应用相关的选定理论和实验主题，作为申请人正在进行的研究工作的延续和发展的新水平。近年来，计算机在工业环境中的应用研究领域在硬件和软件方面都发生了巨大的变化和发展。复杂的企业监控应用，如CRM、ERP、BI等，推动和推动着计算机技术走向新的边界。分布式计算范式的最新发展从根本上改变了企业监督和控制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，需要新的架构模型，而用户移动性和协作等新维度将该领域的研究推向了极致。行业分析师（Gartner象限）报告称，对融合、协作、统一和自我管理的产品或平台有强烈的需求，这些产品或平台能够无缝地统一整个企业的计算机监督和控制应用程序。因此，在我们目前的研究阶段，我们建议研究新的分布式计算模型，这些模型从根本上颠覆了在企业层面提供服务和应用程序的传统方式。在企业运营和管理过程中混合使用移动和固定计算设备，需要新的通信和分布式计算原理、算法和协议。因此，我们的目标是研究自主计算、点对点、网络服务和云计算技术在企业监督和控制架构设计中的新模型的基础和实验方面。我们还将研究上述通用聚合、统一和协作环境的设计。作为目前研究工作的延续，我们的一部分研究工作也将致力于研究应用于企业监督和控制的可重构架构。

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.