Session: Complex and Networked Systems (2009 Annual Meeting)

Thursday, November 12, 2009: 8:30 AM

Lincoln A (Gaylord Opryland Hotel)

Description:

The session introduces new concepts, notions and techniques to address the central issue of complexity in process engineering, as well as to characterize the behavior of large-scale networked systems/processes of chemical engineering interest.

Sponsor:

Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis

Chair:

Nael H. El-Farra
Email: nhelfarra@ucdavis.edu

8:30 AM

(504a) Control and Optimization of Process Networks Using Structural Invariants
Michael R. Wartmann and B. Erik Ydstie

8:55 AM

(504b) Robust Quasi-Decentralized Networked Control of Process Systems
Yulei Sun and Nael H. El-Farra

9:20 AM

(504c) Architectures for Distributed Model Predictive Control of Nonlinear Process Systems
Jinfeng Liu, Xianzhong Chen, David Muñoz de la Peña and Panagiotis D. Christofides

9:45 AM

(504d) Uniting Safe-Parking and Reconfiguration-Based Approaches for Fault-Tolerant Control of Switched Nonlinear Process Systems
Miao Du and Prashant Mhaskar

10:10 AM

(504e) An Ontology Based Cross-Hierarchical Multi Agent Collaboration for Monitoring Offshore Oil and Gas Production Processes
Sathish S. Natarajan and Rajagopalan Srinivasan

10:35 AM

(504f) Cascading Failure in Metabolic Networks: Searching for Links Between Form and Function
Ashley G. Smart, Luis A.N. Amaral and Julio M. Ottino

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