Subject: Uncertainty and Risk in Process Operations and Monitoring

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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 17:53:59 -0500

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         Uncertainty and Risk in Process Operations and Monitoring

                 American Institute of Chemical Engineers
                            1998 Annual Meeting
                               November 1998
                           Miami Beach, Florida

         Sponsored by the Computing & Systems Technology Division

       (Area 10c) Computers in Operations and Information Processing

This  session  focuses  on  methodologies  for  the  planning,  scheduling,
operation   and   monitoring  of  processes  that  explicitly  account  for
uncertainty  and  risk. In chemical processes, uncertainty is often present
in  many  areas including the feedstock quality, process data, and behavior
of  the  process.   There  are  also  inherent  risks involved in operating
processes,  which  can  be  magnified by the presence of uncertainty. These
uncertainties  and  risks not only make the processes difficult to plan and
operate,  but  also  make  it  difficult  to monitor the process. We invite
papers  addressing  heuristic,  deterministic  and stochastic approaches to
handling uncertainty and risk. Areas of interest might include (but are not
limited  to)  planning  and  forecasting  models, data rectification, fault
diagnosis  and  statistical  process  monitoring  for  batch and continuous
processes.  Application  papers  that  offer  insights  into  the interplay
between theory and practice, as well as presentations of industrial success
stories, are particularly encouraged.

Abstracts and a proposal to present form should be submitted electronically
by         March         15        via        the        AIChEWeb        at
http://www.aiche.org/docs/meetapp/programming/cfp.htm.  Copies will then be
sent  automatically  to  the  session chair and co-chair. Abstracts will be
reviewed anonymously and authors will be notified of the results by May 1.

Please note that the CAST division abstract submission deadline of March 15
is earlier than the general AIChE deadline of 4/1/98.

Session Chair                         Session Co-Chair
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Lloyd Johnston                        Viswanathan Visweswaran
Department of Chemical Engineering    Mobil Technology Company
University of South Wales             P.O. Box 480
Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA, 2052          Paulsboro, NJ, 08066-0480
+61 (2) 9385-6243                     (609) 224-2942
+61 (2) 9385-5966 (FAX)               (609) 224-3832 (FAX)
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