VENKAT@CS.COLUMBIA.EDU (V. Venkatasubramanian) (11/21/86)
WORKSHOP ON
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN PROCESS ENGINEERING
Place: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Kellogg Auditorium
Date: March 9-10, 1987
Deadline: Dec 22, 1986 for the submission of applications for
attending the workshop.
Sponsored by: American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Air Products
Amoco
1. Themes and Motivations:
In the past few years there has been considerable work in applying recent
advances in Artificial Intelligence to problems in the various disciplines of
engineering. Substantial impact has already been seen in electrical,
mechanical, and civil engineering applications. It is now well-recognized that
the domain of Process Engineering also has much to gain from applications of
AI. Particular attention is being paid to fault diagnosis and control, process
design and planning. Interest in the process engineering community (both in
academia and in industry) is substantial, but only a handful of researchers are
currently engaged in applying AI to problems in process engineering. This is
largely due to lack of proper exposure of this novel area to the rest of the
community. This workshop is being organized to provide this much needed
exposure to researchers in academia and industry.
Thus the workshop will serve the following current needs:
- Bring together for an intense program, people in academia as well as in
industry who are interested in AI in process engineering.
- Disseminate the ideas and techniques of AI in an appropriate form by
relating them to fault diagnosis and control, design and planning
applications in process engineering.
- Provide demonstrations of some expert system prototypes in process
engineering.
- Help resolve the confusion about what AI can do, how to go about applying
AI for process engineering problems, etc.
- To provide a long-term research focus, identify a set of problems that
have important basic research issues, as well as useful practical
components.
2. Workshop Subjects:
* Fault Diagnosis
* Design
* Operations
3. Workshop Speakers:
Chemical Engineering:
Prof. Jim Davis (Ohio State), Prof. Prasad Dhurjati (Delaware)
Prof. George Stephanopoulos (MIT), Prof. V. Venkatasubramanian (Columbia)
Prof. Art Westerberg (Carnegie-Mellon)
Computer Science:
Prof. B. Chandrasekaran (Ohio State), Prof. Ken Forbus (Univ. of Illinois)
Dr. Jeff Pan (Schlumberger Research), Dr. John Kunz (Intellicorp)
4. Workshop Participation:
For the workshop to be intense, stimulating, and useful, we feel that the
number of partcipants must be limited. Hence the number of participants,
besides the invited speakers, will be limited to fifty. Interested parties are
urged to contact one of the members of the organizing committee (given below)
before Dec 22nd by writing a letter describing their background, research
interests, and current process engineering problems they are working on. The
organizing committee will select the participants from the applicant pool.
Participation is by invitation only. The registration fee is $ 150 for the
two-day workshop and will include a copy of the proceedings.
5. Organizing Committee:
Prof. V. Venkatasubramanian, Chairman
Intelligent Process Engineering Laboratory
Department of Chemical Engineering
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027.
(212) 280-4453
Prof. G. Stephanopoulos, Co-Chairman
Laboratory for Intelligent Systems in Process Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02139.
(617) 253-3904
Prof. James Davis
Department of Chemical Engineering
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210.
(614) 292-0090