Research Panel Reports

An important objective of the advanced research workshop is to stimulate research panel discussions by the participating scientists. The participants were divided to four panels. Each panel had an assigned chairman or co-chairmen, and a provacator, who had all prepared in advance to lead the panel discussions. The panels met in parallel and focused on four main themes, which are significant to the workshop topic: Material Flow Data and KnowledgeCommunications and Intelligent SystemsPlanning and Control ModelsImplementation and Economics