Name:

Weiming Shen

Affiliation:

Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute, National Research Council Canada

Contact:

800 Collip Circle, London, Ontario, Canada, N6G 4X8

Tel: (519) 430-7134, Fax: (519) 430-7064

Main expertise and current areas of research

Dr. Weiming Shen is a Research Scientist at the Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute of National Research Council Canada. He has been working on the applications of agent technology to concurrent design and intelligent manufacturing for more than 9 years. He has published one book (Monograph: Multi-Agent Systems for Concurrent Intelligent Design and Manufacturing by Taylor & Francis) and about 80 journal /conference papers and co-edited 5 conference/workshop proceedings in the related areas. He co-edited / is co-editing three special issues in the related areas for Communication of the ACM, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, and Computers in Industry. He served as Program Committee Chair for the Sixth International Conference on CSCW in Design, Workshop Chair, Session Chair and Program Committee Member for more than 20 conferences/workshops.  His current research interests include applications of Intelligent Agents, Internet and Web technologies to Collaborative Design and Distributed Manufacturing, Virtual Enterprise and Supply Chain Management, as well as eMarketplaces.  

Recent Publications (Books, Proceedings and Journal Papers):

Shen W., Norrie, D.H. and Barthes, J.P. Multi-Agent Systems for Concurrent Intelligent Design and Manufacturing, Taylor and Francis, London, UK, 2001 (ISBN 0-7484-0882-7)

Shen, W., Lin, Z., Barthes, J.P., and Kamel, M. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on CSCW in Design, London, Ontario, Canada, 2001 (ISBN 0-660-18493-1)

Maamar, Z., Shen, W. and Ghenniwa, H.H. (Editors) Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Software Agents and Workflows for Systems Interoperability, 2001 (ISBN 0-660-18552-0)

Thibault, F., Shen, W., Hsu, Y.L. and Yu, J.C. (Editors) Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Multidisciplinary Design Optimisation, 2001 (ISBN 0-660-18553-9)

Maamar, Z. and Shen, W. Proceedings of the AI2000 Workshop on Software Agents and Workflow for Systems Interoperability, Montreal, Quebec, May, 2000.

Shen W., Distributed Manufacturing Scheduling Using Intelligent Agents, to appear in IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2002.

Wang, L., Lang, S. and Shen, W. A Java3D Enabled Cyber Workspace, to appear in Communication of ACM, 2002

Shen, W., Kremer, R., Ulieru, M. and Norrie, D.H. A Collaborative Agent Based Infrastructure for Internet Enabled Collaborative Enterprises, to appear in International Journal of Production Research, 2002.

Shen, W. Imeplementation of Genetic Algorithms in Agent-Based Manufacturing Scheduling Systems, to appear in Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 2002.

Wang, L., Shen, W. Xie, H., Neelamkavil, J. and Pardasani, A. Collaborative Conceptual Design: A State of the Art Survey, to appear in Computer-Aided Design (CAD), 2001.

Shen, J., Yan, J. and Shen, W. Research on Tele-Collaborative Product Development, to appear in Journal of Applied Systems Stuides (JASS), 2001.

Zhao, G., Deng, J. and Shen, W. CLOVER: an Agent-Based Approach to Systems Interoperability in Cooperative Design Systems, accepted for publication in Computers in Industry, 2001.

Shen, W. and Wang, L. Web-Based and Agent-Based Approaches for Collaborative Product Design: an Overview, to appear in International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 2001.

Shen W. and Norrie, D.H., Dynamic Manufacturing Scheduling Using both Functional and Resource Related Agents, Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 8(1), 17-30, 2001.

Uliera, M. Norrie, D.H., Kremer, R. and Shen, W. A Multi-Resolution Collaborative Architecture for Web-Centric Global Manufacturing, Journal of Information Sciences, 127(1-2):3-21, August 2000

Shen, W. Virtual Organizations in Collaborative Design and Manufacturing Systems, Journal of Organizational Virtualness, 2(2), 43-58, 2000.

Shen W., Maturana F.  and Norrie, D.H. Enhancing the Performance of an Agent-Based Manufacturing System through Learning and Forecasting, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 11(4), 365-380, 2000

Shen W., Maturana F. and Norrie, D.H. MetaMorph II: An Agent-Based Architecture for Distributed Intelligent Design and Manufacturing, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing - Special Issue on Distributed Manufacturing Systems 11(3), 237-251, 2000.

Yan, J.Q., Fan, X.M., Ma, D.Z., Tseng, A.A. and Shen, W. System Structure for Virtual Manufacturing, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Systems, 3(1), 49-76, 2000.

Maturana F., Shen W. and Norrie, D.H. MetaMorph: An Adaptive Agent-Based Architecture for Intelligent Manufacturing, International Journal of Production Research, 37(10), 2159-2174, 1999.

Shen W. and Norrie, D.H. Agent-Based Systems for Intelligent Manufacturing: A State-of-the-Art Survey, Knowledge and Information Systems, an International Journal, 1(2), 129-156, 1999.

Current projects

Acronym, Title, Brief description, Duration, URL 

MDO: Development of a MDO Methodology for Blow Molded Automotive Parts (2000-2003) http://mdo.cscwid.org/

Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) is a methodology for the design of complex engineering systems that are governed by mutually interacting physical phenomena and made up of distinct interacting subsystems. These subsystems are usually implemented in different computers connected through a network, and the design is done by a multidisciplinary design team. The objective of this research project is to develop a MDO methodology and a distributed software environment for mechanical engineering design optimization. Agent technology and Internet/Web technologies are to be used for system integration, i.e., all subsystems are to be wrapped into software agents, while the user interfaces will be Web-based.

BCKOA: Business-Centered Knowledge-Oriented Architecture for eMarketplace and eBusiness (2000-2002)

The proposed project will focus on developing an agent-based Business-Centered Knowledge-Oriented Architecture (BCKOA) for eMarketplace and eBusiness. The objective is to develop a software environment that is semantically rich and describes the organization and the interconnection amongst software components, business objects, services to classify and locate business objects, location and organization of application software; the interactions between the business model and each of these components.

ABIMS: Agent-Based Intelligent Manufacturing Scheduling (2002-2004)

This project is to develop pre-commercial software on agent-based distributed manufacturing scheduling for ETO/MTO industry.