时间：2017年12月14日  10:00-11:30

地点：教师楼三楼会议室

Speaker：Dr. Weiming Shen，PhD, FIEEE, EFIC, P.Eng

主持人: 孙宇清

Title: Agent-Based Collaborative Technologies and Systems

Abstract: Agent technology represents a new paradigm for developing industrial software applications. During the past two decades, a significant number of researchers and practitioners have been trying to apply intelligent software agents in the areas of engineering design, intelligent manufacturing, supply chain management, and virtual enterprises. Under the context of these areas, an agent can be defined as a software system that communicates and cooperates with other software systems to solve a complex problem that is beyond the capability of each individual software system. Intelligent software agents can be used to encapsulate existing software systems to realize legacy systems integration, represent manufacturing resources (e.g., operators, machines, robots, and cells) to implement distributed manufacturing process planning, scheduling and execution control, and to represent organizations to facilitate collaboration, coordination, and negotiation. This talk presents some first-hand experience in developing agent-based collaborative technologies and systems, and discusses future trends, R&D opportunities and challenges. Sample applications presented in this talk include: collaborative mechanical engineering design; multidisciplinary design optimization; agent-based robotic painting; and shop floor materials handling. Recent work on the integration of Wires Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Bid Data, Blockchains, and Intelligent Agents is also presented, with applications to Smart Homes and Intelligent Buildings.

Bio: Dr. Weiming Shen is a Senior Research Scientist at the National Research Council Canada and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Ontario and McMaster University. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE SMC Society, Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), and Professional Engineer of Ontario (PEO). He received his Bachelor and Master’s degrees from Northern (Beijing) Jiaotong University, China and his PhD degree from the University of Technology of Compiègne, France. He is an internationally-recognized expert on Agent-Based Collaborative Technologies and Applications. He has published several books and over 450 papers in scientific journals and international conferences in the related areas. His work has been cited over 10,000 times with an h-index of 47. He has been invited to provide over 90 invited lectures/seminars at different academic and research institutions over the world and keynote presentations/ tutorials at various international conferences. He is a member of the Steering Committee for the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing and an Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member of over ten international journals (including IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering; IEEE Transaction on SMC: Systems; IEEE SMC Magazine; Advanced Engineering Informatics; Computational Intelligence; Intelligent Buildings International; Service Computing and Applications) and served as guest editor for several other international journals. He is the Co-Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, has been Program Committee Co-Chair of the CSCWD conferences since 2001, and served as Chair/Co-Chair or Program Committee member for over 100 international conferences.