Weiming ShenIEEE SMCS Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Fellow
National Research Council of Canada
Univ. Western Ontario and McMaster Univ., Canada
Title: Computer Supported Collaborative Design: Technologies, Systems, and Applications
Abstract: Industries and societies today require new technologies to address increasingly complex design issues for products, structures, buildings, systems, processes, and services while meeting the high expectation of customers. Computer Supported Collaborative Design (CSCD) has emerged in response to this requirement. With the rapid advancement of Internet and Web-based technologies, CSCD was a very active R&D area in the past two decades and progressed dramatically. To achieve its full potential, more and more research and commercial CSCD systems have been recently developed. The depth and breadth of these systems and applications are far beyond the traditional definition of concurrent engineering. CSCD is carried out not only among multidisciplinary design teams within the same company, but also across the boundaries of companies and time zones, with increased numbers of customers and suppliers involved in the process. This talk presents a comprehensive overview of this R&D area, particularly CSCD technologies, systems, and applications. Research challenges and opportunities on CSCD will also be discussed and highlighted.
Biography: Dr. Weiming Shen is a Senior Research Scientist at the National Research Council Canada and an Adjunct Professor at University of Western Ontario and McMaster University. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE SMC Society. He is 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. During the past eight years, he has been leading a number of major projects on IoT and Big Data with smart applications (Smart Home, Smart Building, and Smart Factory). He has published several books and over 350 papers in scientific journals and international conferences in the related areas. His work has been cited over 8,000 times with an h-index of 43. 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.