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Operating procedure synthesis: science or art?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2003

RAFAEL BATRES ,
JAMES SOUTTER ,
STEVEN P. ASPREY  and
PAUL CHUNG
RAFAEL BATRES
Affiliation:
Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
JAMES SOUTTER
Affiliation:
Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK
STEVEN P. ASPREY
Affiliation:
Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Imperial College, London, UK
PAUL CHUNG
Affiliation:
Computer Science Department, Loughborough University, UK
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Abstract

In this paper, we provide a review of concepts and developments in operating procedure synthesis (OPS), starting from its early development through to its current state. Operating procedure synthesis is a problem in which a set of equipment manipulations and their orderings must be generated to take the process from an initial state to a goal state. While there has been ongoing research for about 30 years in this area, only a few systems have been reported to be industrially deployed. The approach taken in this paper is, first, to describe the problem in general terms; second, to discuss previous work in this area; and, finally, to present ideas and directions for future work.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , September 2002 , pp. 261 - 294
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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