Applications of computers in industrial environments

拟议研究的目标是调查选定的与计算机在工业环境中的应用有关的理论和实验主题。这是申请人正在进行的研究工作在一个新的水平上的延续和发展。在过去的几年里，这个研究领域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境界。分布式计算范例的最新发展从根本上改变了企业监管和控制架构的设计方式。越来越多地采用基于云的服务、虚拟化和自主计算需要新的架构模型，而用户移动性和协作等新维度将该领域的研究延伸到了极致。行业分析师(Gartner象限)报告称，对能够在整个企业内无缝提供监督和控制应用的融合、协作、统一和自我管理的产品或平台的需求非常强烈。因此，在我们现阶段的研究中，我们建议调查新的分布式计算模型，该模型颠覆了在企业级别提供服务和应用的传统方式。这项研究将集中在自主计算、对等、Web服务和云计算技术在企业监控体系结构设计中的基础和实验方面。通过类比通信设备，我们称为信息结构，即在基于Web的服务中融合通信和计算资源。因此，我们研究与体系结构及其组件相关的主题，其中信息结构的控制是核心。我们认为结构是由云上的集群组成的，这些集群由自主计算服务器控制，并赋予了特殊的自组织算法。这些主题将是本提案的目标。我们的研究工作的一部分将致力于研究应用于信息结构控制的可重构体系结构。

The objectives of the proposed research are to investigate selected theoretical and experimental topics related to the application of computers in an industrial milieu. 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.