H.-S. Jacob TsaoIndustrial and Systems Engineering.ppt

H.-S. Jacob TsaoIndustrial and Systems Engineering Ph.D. in Operations Research, 1984, UC Berkeley CAM Software Development Engineer, 1984-1986, Consilium, Mountain View, CA (Now an Applied Materials Company) Systems Engineer, 1986-1992, ATT Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ Assistant, Associate and Full Research Engineer, 1992 - present, UC Berkeley; part-time since 1999 Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, SJSU, 1999 - present H.-S. Jacob TsaoIndustrial and Systems Engineering Publications: Books: Entropy Optimization and Mathematical Programming, 1997 Testing Component-based Software, to appear in 2003 30 Refereed Journal Papers Areas of Interest: Industrial Engineering Information Engineering Manufacturing Applications:Agent-based Intelligent Manufacturing A Brief Review of Enabling Technologies Business Needs and Impetus Systems Requirements Agent-based Intelligent Manufacturing: Applications A Brief Review of the Enabling Technologies Innovations in Information Engineering 70’s: Data Processing (“Flat Files”) 80’s: Information Systems (IS) – Real-time Database; Decision Support Systems 90’s: Information Technology (IT) – Computer + Communication + GUI; Client-Server; Internet 00’s: “Agents”? - Multi-agent Systems (MAS) A Brief Review of the Enabling Technologies Manufacturing Technologies 80’s: Computer-aided Manufacturing (CAM) 90’s: Computer-integrated Manufacturing (CIM) 00’s: “Agent-based” Intelligent Manufacturing (AIM?) A Brief Review of the Enabling Technologies Software Development Paradigms 70’s: Structured Analysis 80’s: Entity-relationship; Relational Database 90’s: Object-orientation; Software Components 00’s: Agents; Multi-agent Systems (MAS)? “Broker-oriented”agents “Subject-oriented” agents: much more general Business Needs and Impetus Competition in the marketplace and technology, etc., led to: Globalization: Geographically Distributed Complex Supply Chain (Value Chain): Distributed among corpora