René Bañares-Alcántara
   
       
Department of Engineering Science
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Articles published as sole author

(a)  In refereed journals

R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “A Perspective of Intelligent Systems in Process Engineering”, in press, paper invited by the Editorial Advisory Board of the Comps. & Chem. Eng. J. for its 25th Anniversary Issue, accepted in September 2002.

R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Design Support Systems for Process Engineering. I. Requirements and Proposed Solutions for a Design Process Representation”, Comps.&Chem.Eng., 19(3):267-277 (1995).

R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Representing the Engineering Design Process: Two Hypotheses”, Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Journal, 23(9):595-603 (1991).  Also in Artificial Intelligence in Design '91, John S. Gero, ed.  pp. 3-22.  Butterworth Heinemann Ltd, Oxford.  ISBN: 0 7506 1188 X  (1991).


(b)  In book collections

R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “A Technique to Represent the Design Process of Chemical Plants”, in Computer-Oriented Process Engineering.  L. Puigjaner and  A. Espuña, eds.  pp. 81-86.  Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam.  ISBN: 0-444-88786-5 (1991).


(c)  Notes, reviews and review articles

R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Concurrent Process Engineering.  State of the Art and Outstanding Research Issues”, Final report of TWG4 / CAPE.NET.  http://capenet.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk/ (2000).

R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Intelligent Systems in Process Engineering: Paradigms from Design and Operations”, Review en AIChE Journal, 43(1):283, (1997).

R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Introducción a los Sistemas Expertos”, IDEA, Bi-annual publication of IBM-Mexico, 2(1) (1987).


(d)  Refereed conference papers

R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “The Scope of Application of Multi-Agent Systems in the Process Industry: Three Case Studies”, Proceedings of the Intelligent Computing in the Petroleum Industry workshop (ICPI’02) ISBN: 968-489-013-3, Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo and SMIA, Mexico City, 25-26 November (2002).

R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Uso de un ATMS en la Representación del Proceso de Diseño”, AEPIA'93.  Madrid, Spain.  15-18 November (1993).

R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Application of an ATMS in the Representation of the Design Process”, Workshop on Application of Reason Maintenance Systems, en ECAI'92.  Vienna, Austria.  4 de August (1992).

R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Maintenance of Consistency in Designs with Cooperative Designers”, AIChE Fall Meeting (presentation number137c).  Los Angeles CA, USA.  17-22 November (1991).

R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Tendencias Actuales en la Aplicación de Técnicas de Inteligencia Artificial en la Ingeniería Química”, PACHEC'88 (Pacific Area Chemical Engineering Conference).  Acapulco,  Oct. (1988).

R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “An Automatic Programming Tool for Process Simulation”, Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Applications in Process Engineering, AAAI-88.  St. Paul, Minn, USA.  25 August (1988).

R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Development of an Expert System for Catalysts Selection” (in Spanish), Segundo Seminario en Catálisis en Procesos de Transformación, UNAM.  Mexico City.  October (1986).


(e)  Technical reports

All ECOSSE Technical Reports were published by the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Edinburgh, UK, and can be found at  http://www.chemeng.ed.ac.uk/ecosse/reports.

R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Maintenance of Consistency in Designs with Cooperating Designers”, ECOSSE TR-91-12 (1991).

R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “A Technique to Represent the Design Process of Chemical Plants”, ECOSSE TR-91-10 (1991).

R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “A Representation for the Exploration-Based Model of Design”, ECOSSE TR-91-09 (1991).


Joint articles published

(a)  In refereed journals

A. Rodríguez-Martínez, I. López-Arévalo, R. Bañares-Alcántara, A. Aldea.  “Multi-model Knowledge Representation in the Retrofit of Processes”, Comps&Chem.Eng., 28:781-788 (2004).

I. López-Arévalo, A. Rodríguez-Martínez, R. Bañares-Alcántara, A. Aldea.  “The Application of Ontologies in the Retrofit of Chemical Processes” (in Spanish), in press Revista Mexicana de Ing. Química, 3(1) (2004).

A. Aldea, R. Bañares-Alcántara, L. Jiménez, J. Martínez-Miranda, A. Moreno, D. Riaño.  “The Scope of Application of Multi-Agent Systems in the Process Industry: Three Case Studies”, Expert Systems with Applications Journal (special issue on Intelligent Computing in Petroleum Industry), 26(1):39-47, (2004).

N. Vidal, R. Bañares-Alcántara, I. Rodríguez-Roda and M. Poch.  “Design of Wastewater Treatment Plants Using a Conceptual Design Methodology”, Ind.&Eng.Chem.Res. 41:4993-5005 (2002).

D. Fernández, A. Rodríguez, L. Jiménez and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Code Creator for Automatic HYSYS.Plant and MSExcel Interoperability”, CACHE News, Spring issue (2002).

Z.A. Manan and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “A New Catalogue of the Most Promising Separation Sequences for Homogeneous Azeotropic Mixtures.  I.  Systems Without Boundary Crossing”, Ind.&Eng.Chem.Res., 40:5795-5809 (2001).

I. Rodríguez-Roda, M. Poch and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Conceptual Design of Wastewater Treatment Plants using a Design Support System”, J. of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, 75:73-81 (2000).

I. R. Roda, M. Poch and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Application of a Support System to the Design of Wastewater Treatment Plants”, Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, 14:45-61 (2000).

J.M.P. King, R. Bañares-Alcántara and Z.A. Manan.  “Minimising Environmental Impact Using CBR: An Azeotropic Distillation Case Study”, Environmental Modelling Software, 14:359-366 (1999).

R.T. Lashmanan and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Retrofit by Inspection Using Thermodynamic Process Visualisation”, Comps.&Chem.Eng., 22(Suppl.):S809-S812 (1998).

C. Castell, R.T. Lakshmanan, J. Skilling and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Optimisation of Process Plant Layout Using Genetic Algorithms”, Comps.&Chem.Eng., 22(Suppl.):S993-S996 (1998).

J.M.P. King and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Extending the Scope and Use of Design Rationale Records”, Artificial Intelligence in Eng. Design Analysis and Manufacturing J. (AIEDAM J.), 11(2): 155-167 (1997).

R. Bañares-Alcántara and J.M.P. King.  “Design Support Systems for Process Engineering. III. Design Rationale as a Requirement for Effective Support”, Comps.&Chem.Eng., 21(3):263-276 (1997).

R.T. Lakshmanan and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “A Novel Visualisation Tool for Heat Exchanger Network Retrofit”, Ind.&Eng.Chem.Res., 35:4507-4522 (1996).

D. Costello. E.S. Fraga, N. Skilling, G.H. Ballinger, R. Bañares-Alcántara, J. Krabbe, M. Laing, R. McKinnel, J.W. Ponton and M. Spenceley.  “épée: A Support Environment for Process Engineering Software”, Comps.&Chem.Eng., 20(12):1399-1412 (1996).

R. Vázquez-Román, J.M.P. King and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “KBMoSS: A Process Engineering Modelling Support System”, Comps.&Chem.Eng., 20(Suppl.):S309-S314 (1996).

J.M.P. King and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “The Extension and Evolution of the Process Design Representation”, Comps.&Chem.Eng., 20(Suppl.):S171-S176 (1996).

H.M.S. Lababidi, I.M. Alatiqi and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Application of Controllability Analysis Tools during the Conceptual Design Stage”, Comps.&Chem.Eng., 20(Suppl.):S207-S212 (1996).

R. Bañares-Alcántara and H.M.S. Lababidi.  “Design Support Systems for Process Engineering. II. KBDS: an Experimental Prototype”, Comps.&Chem.Eng., 19(3):279-301 (1995).

G.H. Ballinger, E.S. Fraga and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “A Case Study in Process Engineering Tool Integration”, Comps.&Chem.Eng., 19(Suppl.):S759-S764 (1995).

G.H. Ballinger, R. Bañares-Alcántara, D. Costello, E.S. Fraga, J. Krabbe, J.M.P. King, M. Laing, R. McKinnel, J.W. Ponton, N. Skilling and M. Spenceley.  “Developing an Environment for Creative Process Design”, Chemical Engineering Research & Design, 72(Part A):316-324 (1994).

G.H. Ballinger, R. Bañares-Alcántara, D. Costello, E.S. Fraga, J. Krabbe, H.M.S. Lababidi, M. Laing, R. McKinnel, J.W. Ponton, N. Skilling and M. Spenceley.  “épée:  A Process Engineering Software Environment”, Comps.&Chem.Eng., 18(Suppl.):S283-S287 (1994).

H.M.S. Lababidi and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “An Integrated Graphical User Interface for a Chemical Engineering Design Support System”, Chemical Engineering Research & Design, 71(A):429-436 (1993).

R. Bañares-Alcántara, E.I. Ko, A.W. Westerberg and M.D. Rychener.  “DECADE - A Hybrid Expert System for Catalyst Selection - II.  Final Architecture and Results”, Comps.&Chem.Eng., 12(9/10):923-938 (1988).

R. Bañares-Alcántara, A.W. Westerberg, E.I. Ko, and M.D. Rychener.  “DECADE: A Hybrid Expert System for Catalyst Selection.  I: Expert Systems Considerations”, Comps.&Chem.Eng., 11(3):265-277 (1987).

R. Bañares-Alcántara, A.W. Westerberg and M.D. Rychener.  “Development of an Expert System for Physical Property Predictions”, Comps.&Chem.Eng., 9(2):127-142 (1985).


(b)  In book collections

C. Arrimadas, L. Jiménez, R. Bañares-Alcántara and J. A. Caballero.  “Inclusion of Quantitative Safety Evaluations in Superstructure Optimisation”, in Process Systems Engineering 2003.  8th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering.  B. Chen and A.W. Westerberg (eds.), Elsevier Science, ISBN: 0-444-51404-X, pp. 702-707, May (2003).

R. Bañares-Alcántara, A. Kokossis, A. Aldea, L. Jiménez, and Patrick Linke.  “A Knowledge Management Platform to Extract and Process Information from the Web”, in Process Systems Engineering 2003.  8th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering.  B. Chen and A.W. Westerberg (eds.), Elsevier Science, ISBN: 0-444-51404-X, pp. 1262-1267, May (2003).

L. Kulay, L. Jiménez, F. Castells, R. Bañares-Alcántara and G. A. Silva.  “A Case Study on the Integration of Process Simulation and Life Cycle Inventory for a Petrochemical Process”, in Process Systems Engineering 2003.  8th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering.  B. Chen and A.W. Westerberg (eds.), Elsevier Science, ISBN: 0-444-51404-X, pp. 505-510, May (2003).

J. Martínez-Miranda, A. Aldea and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “A tool to support the configuration of work teams”, in Process Systems Engineering 2003.  8th Int. Symposium on Process Systems Engineering.  B. Chen and A.W. Westerberg (eds.), Elsevier Science, ISBN: 0-444-51404-X, pp. 280-285, May (2003).

L. Kulay, L. Jiménez, F. Castells, R. Bañares-Alcántara and G. A. Silva.  “Integration of Process Modelling and Life Cycle Inventory. Case Study: i-Pentane Purification Process from Naphtha”, in European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering – 13.  A. Kraslawski and I. Turunen (eds.), Elsevier Science, ISBN: 0-444-51368-X, pp. 185-190, May (2003).

A. Rodríguez-Martínez, I. López-Arévalo, R. Bañares-Alcántara and A. Aldea.  “A Multi-modelling Approach for the Retrofit of Processes”, in European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering – 13.  A. Kraslawski and I. Turunen (eds.), Elsevier Science, ISBN: 0-444-51368-X, pp. 269-274, May (2003).
 
R. Bañares-Alcántara and A. Kokossis.  “Dynamic Information Management for Web-Enabled Environments in the Chemical Process Industries”, in FOCAPO 2003 (Foundations of Computer Aided Process Operations), Coral Springs FL, USA. January 12-15 (2003).

L. Jiménez and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Preconceptions and Typical Problems of Teaching with Process Simulators”, European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering – 12.  Johan Grievink and Jan van Schijndel, eds.  Elsevier ISBN: 0-444-51109-1, pp. 1021-1026 (2002).

S.S. Gelete, R. Bañares-Alcántara and L. Jiménez.  “A Concurrent Engineering Approach for an Effective Process Design Support System”, European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering – 12.  Johan Grievink and Jan van Schijndel, eds.  Elsevier ISBN: 0-444-51109-1, pp. 889-894 (2002).

R. Bañares-Alcántara, E.S. Fraga and T. Perris.  “Concurrent Process Engineering & the Implications for CAPE”, European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering – 11.  Rafiqul Gani and Sten Bay Jorgensen, eds.  Elsevier ISBN: 0-444-50709-4, pp. 955-960 (2001).

A. Guzmán-Reyna and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Intent and Rationale in the Design of Chemical Processes: A Case Study”, European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering – 10.  Sauro Pierucci, ed.  Elsevier ISBN: 0-444-50520-2, pp. 703-708 (2000).

R. Bañares-Alcántara and J.W. Ponton.  “Design Support Systems for Conceptual Design”, AIChE Symposium Series No. 312.  Volumen 92.  J. F. Davis, G. Stephanopoulos and V. Venkatsubramanian, eds. ISBN: 0-8169-0707-2 (1996).

R. Bañares-Alcántara, J.M.P. King and G.H. Ballinger.  “Égide: A Design Support System for Conceptual Chemical Process Design”, in AI System Support for Conceptual Design, John E.E. Sharpe, ed., pp. 138-152.  Springer-Verlag, Great Britain.  ISBN: 3-540-76000-8 (1995).

R. Bañares-Alcántara, J.M.P. King and G.H. Ballinger.  “Extending a Process Design Support System to Record Design Rationale”, in Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Design (FOCAPD'94).  M. F. Doherty and L. T. Biegler, eds.  AIChE Symposium Series, Vol. 91, 304, pp. 332-335.  ISSN: 0065-8812 (1995).

R. Bañares-Alcántara and J.W. Ponton.  “Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Chemical Engineering Process Design”, in  Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering VII, D. E. Grierson, G. Rzevski and R.A. Adey, eds., pp. 581-60.  Computational Mechanics Publications, Bath, England.  ISBN: 1-85166-787-3 (1992).

R. Bañares-Alcántara, A.W. Westerberg, E.I. Ko, and M.D. Rychener  “The DECADE Catalyst Selection System”, in Expert Systems for Engineering Design (ISBN 0-12-605110-0), M.D. Rychener, ed.  Chapter 3 (pp. 53-91).  Academic Press Inc. (1988).

S.N. Talukdar, E. Cardozo, L. Leão, R. Bañares-Alcántara and R. Joobani.  “A System for Distributed Problem Solving”, in Coupling Symbolic and Numerical Computing in Expert Systems, J. S. Kowalik, ed.  North Holland Publisher.  ISBN: 0 444 87988 9; ASIN: 0444704019 (1986).


(c)  Notes, reviews and review articles

I. Rodríguez-Roda, M. Poch, P. Vega, M. Francisco, R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Development and validation of a decision support system for integrated design of biological wastewater treatment processes", Journal of Chemical & Engineering Technology – electronic version (and presented at the 4th European Congress if Chemical Engineering  - ECCE-4), September (2003).

A. Rodríguez-Martínez, I. López-Arévalo, R. Bañares-Alcántara, A. Aldea.  “Automatic Hierarchical Abstraction Tool for the Retrofit of Processes”, Journal of Chemical & Engineering Technology – electronic version (and presented at ECCE-4), September (2003).

A. Rodríguez-Martínez, I. Herrera, R. Bañares-Alcántara and M. Schuhmacher.  “Retrofit of Processes and Environmental Analysis, a Decision Support Alternative in Process Engineering”, Journal of Chemical & Engineering Technology – electronic version (and presented at ECCE-4), September (2003).

L. Jiménez and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Separation Sequence Synthesis through Residue Curve Maps.  Part I” (in Spanish), Ingeniería Química, October (2002).

E.S. Fraga and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Modelling Environment for Conceptual Process Development – An Academic Perspective”, CAPE 21 Discussion Paper, http://CAPE-21.ucl.org.uk , July (2001).

N. Vidal, I. R.-Roda, M. Poch, R. Bañares-Alcántara and A. Freixó.  "Conceptual Design of Wastewater Treatment Plants Using a Multicriteria Methodology", Scientia Gerundensis, 25:75-91 (2001).

E. Morales-Manzanares, R. Bañares-Alcántara and A. Villavicencio.  “Real Time Expert Systems and their Application to the Electrical Industry” (in Spanish), Boletín IIE, 11(1):9-15 (1987).

R. Bañares-Alcántara, D. Sriram, V. Venkatsubramanian, A.W. Westerberg and M.D. Rychener.  “Knowledge-Based Expert Systems for CAD”, Chemical Engineering Progress, 81(9):25-30 (1985).

M.D. Rychener, R. Bañares-Alcántara and E. Subrahmanian.  “A Rule-Based Blackboard System”, SIGART Newsletter (special number on AI in Engineering), March:101-102 (1985).


(d)  Refereed conference papers

R. Bañares-Alcántara (co-author) “Self-regulated semantics for managing distributed information and analysis”, session 10C03: Data Analysis: Design, Algorithms & Applications.  AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA. November 6-21 (2003).

R. Bañares-Alcántara (co-author) “A dynamic knowledge management platform for process industry applications”, session 10D05: Novel Computer Applications in Chemical Engineering. AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA. November 6-21 (2003).

R. Bañares-Alcántara, A. Kokossis and P. Linke.  “A knowledge management platform for technology intensive industries”, e-2003 eChallenges Conference & Exhibition, Bologna.  22-24 October 2003.

A. Aldea, R. Bañares-Alcántara, J. Bocio, J. Gramajo, D. Isern, A. Kokossis, L. Jiménez, A. Moreno, D. Riaño.   “An Ontology-Based Knowledge Management Platform”, Workshop on Information Integration on the Web, IJCAI’03, Acapulco.  7-12 August 2003.

I. López-Arévalo, A. Rodríguez-Martínez, R. Bañares-Alcántara, A. Aldea.  "Towards the Automatic Identification of Process Sections during the Redesign of Petroleum and Chemical Processes", Workshop on Intelligent Computing in the Petroleum Industry (ICPI 2003), IJCAI’03, Acapulco.  7-12 August 2003.

J. Martínez-Miranda, A. Aldea and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Simulation of Work Teams Using a Multi-Agent System”, International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AMAS 2003).  Melbourne, Australia, 14-18 July (2003).

A. Rodríguez-Martínez, I. López-Arévalo, R. Bañares-Alcántara, A. Aldea.  “Retrofit Approach for Developing Sustainable Chemical Processes”, SETAC (Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry) Europe 13th Annual Meeting , Hamburg, 27 April (2003).

J. Martínez-Miranda, A. Aldea and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Autonomous Agents that Simulate Human Behaviour in a Work Team” (in Spanish), in VIII Iberoamerican Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA 2002), Sevilla, Spain 12-15 November (2002).

I. Lopez-Arevalo, A. Aldea and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Multiple Modelling in the Redesign of Chemical Processes” (in Spanish), in VIII Iberoamerican Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA 2002), Sevilla, Spain 12-15 November (2002).

A. Rodríguez-Martínez, I. López-Arévalo, R. Bañares-Alcántara and A. Aldea.  “Integrated Framework for the Retrofit of Processes”, in the 9º Congreso Mediterráneo de Ingeniería Química, Barcelona, Spain.  November (2002).

C. Arrimadas, L. Jiménez, R. Bañares-Alcántara and J.A. Caballero.  “Process Synthesis with Safety Constraints”, in the 9º Congreso Mediterráneo de Ingeniería Química, Barcelona, Spain.  November (2002).

S.S. Gelete and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “A Framework to Enable a Concurrent Process Engineering System for Process Design Support”, in 9th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications, Cranfield University, UK.  27-31 July (2002).

J. Martínez-Miranda, A. Aldea and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “A Social Agent Model to Simulate Human Behaviour in Teamwork”, 3rd Workshop on Agent-Based Simulation, Christopher Urban (ed.), SCS-European Publishing House, Erlangen, Germany.  ISBN 3-936150-17-6 (2002).

L. Jiménez, A.D. Mackie, J. Bonet, J. Giralt and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “How to Select an Adequate Property Estimation Model for Process Simulation?” (in Spanish), II Jornadas de Ingeniería Termodinámica, Tarragona, ETSEQ-URV, 7-8 Junio, pp. 131-136 (2001).

A. Aldea, B. López and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “The Use of Intelligent Agents to Manage Human Resources in the Design of Chemical Processes”, Boletín de la Asociación Catalana de Inteligencia Artificial, no. 22, pp. 1-5.  CCIA 2000, 3er Congrés Catalá d’Intel.ligència Artificial.  Vilanova i la Geltrú, 5-7 October, (2000).

B. López, A. Aldea and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Intelligent Agents to Manage Human Resources in the Design of Chemical Processes”, Spanish Symposium on Distributed Systems, SEID2000, Ourense, Spain, September (2000).

A. Brice, W. Johns, C. Castell, R. Bañares-Alcántara, P. Leboulleoux and L. Sellin.  “Improving Process Design by Improving the Design Process”, AIChE Annual Meeting , Miami, USA.  November 15-20 (1998).

S. Case, Q. Shen, R. Bañares-Alcántara and J.W. Ponton.  “Detecting Inverse Responses in Chemical Processes with Qualitative Simulation”, 11th Int. Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, Cortona, Italia.  Publicazzione N. 1036, Instituto de Analisis Numerica C.N.R. Pavia, pp. 249-255. 3-6 June 3-6 (1997).

R.T. Lakshmanan and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “New Insight into Heat Exchanger Network Retrofit Design”
AIChE Spring Meeting, New Orleans, USA.  February (1996).

J.M.P. King, R. Bañares-Alcántara, G.H. Ballinger and R.T. Lakshmanan.  “Using Design History to Support Chemical Plant Design”, 1st European Conf. of IChemE.  Edinburgh, UK. Vol. 1, pp:152-154.  Jan. (1995).

M. Spenceley, G.H. Ballinger, R. Bañares-Alcántara, D. Costello, E.S. Fraga, J. Krabbe, M. Laing, R. McKinnel, J.W. Ponton and N. Skilling.  “Representation of Process Data Using Extensible Templates”, 1st European Conference of IChemE, ISBN 0 85295 359 3.  Edinburgh, UK. Vol. 1, pp:116-118.  January (1995).

R. Bañares-Alcántara, H.M.S. Lababidi, G.H. Ballinger and J.M.P. King.  “KBDS: A Support System for Chemical Engineering Conceptual Design”, Dublin, Ireland. ESCAPE4, IChemE Symposium Series no. 133, pp. 419-426. Rugby, UK (1994).

E. Ramírez-Domínguez and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “A Representation of Engineering Design Intent”, 6th Int. Conf. on Ind. and Eng. Apps. of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems. Edinburgh, UK.  June (1993).

H.M.S. Lababidi and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “An Intelligent Graphical User Interface for a Design Environment”, International Conf. on Intelligent Systems Engineering, IEE.  Edinburgh, UK.  August (1992).

C. Rojas Guzmán, I. Ania Briseño and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Un sistema computacional para la construcción automática de simuladores”, XXIX Congreso Anual del IMIQ (Instituto Mexicano de Ingenieros Químicos). Vol. I, pp. 391-405.  Morelia, México.  October 18-20 (1989).

C. Zozaya Gorostiza and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Un algoritmo que resuelve problemas de planeación usando redes”, Sexta Reunión Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial, SMIA (Sociedad Mexicana de Inteligencia Artificial).  Querétaro, México.  June 12-16 (1989).

R. Bañares-Alcántara and E. Morales Manzanares.  “Dos Herramientas Basadas en Técnicas de Inteligencia Artificial para el Auxilio en la Construcción de Simuladores de Proceso”, 5a Reunión Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (CARIBIA’88), SMIA.  Mérida, Yucatán, México.  March (1988).

R. Bañares-Alcántara and E. Morales Manzanares.  “Herramientas de Apoyo Basadas en Técnicas Usadas en la Construcción de Sistemas Expertos para la Manipulación de Diagramas de Flujo”, XXVII Congreso Anual del IMIQ (Instituto Mexicano de Ingenieros Químicos).  Ixtapa, México.  21-23 October (1987).

R. Bañares-Alcántara and E. Morales Manzanares.  “Sistemas Expertos en Tiempo Real en el IIE”, Reunión de Sistemas Expertos (Asociación Mexicana de Ingeniería).  Mexico City.  6-7 November (1986).

R. Bañares-Alcántara, I. Grossmann, L. Biegler, R. Edahl and S.N. Talukdar.  “An Expert System Approach to On-Line Optimization”, AIChE Spring Mtg. (presentation 40a).  New Orleans LA, USA.  6-10 Apr. (1986).

R. Bañares-Alcántara, E.I. Ko, M.D. Rychener and A.W. Westerberg.  “DECADE: A Hybrid Expert System for Catalyst Selection”, AIChE Annual Meeting (presentation 70a).  Chicago IL, USA.  November (1985).

D. Sriram, R. Bañares-Alcántara, V. Venkatasubramanian, A.W. Westerberg and M.D. Rychener.  “Knowledge-Based Expert Systems for Chemical Engineering”, Proceedings of COMPINT 85.  Computer Aided Tech. (Cat.No. 85CH2136-0).  IEEE Comput. Soc. Press, Washington DC, USA.  pp. 79-82 (1985).

S.N. Talukdar, E. Cardozo, L. Leão, R. Bañares-Alcántara and R. Joobani.  “A System for Distributed Problem Solving”, Workshop on Coupling Symbolic and Numerical Computing in Expert Systems (AAAI).  Bellevue, WA, USA.  August (1985).

M.D. Rychener, R. Bañares-Alcántara and E. Subrahmanian.  “A Rule-Based Blackboard Kernel System: Some Principles in Design”, IEEE Workshop on Principles of Knowledge-Based Systems (paper number CH2104-8-84-0000-0059).  Denver CO, USA.  December (1984).

D.S. Dimitrov and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “MEFES: A Prototype Expert System for Membrane Fusion”, Bulgaria.  Summer (1984).

D. Sriram, N. Tyle, M.L. Maher, R. Bañares-Alcántara, M.D. Rychener and S.J. Fenves.  “Knowledge-Based Expert Systems for Engineering Applications”, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (paper number CH1962-0-83-0000-0364).  India.  January (1984).


(e)  Technical reports

All ECOSSE Technical Reports were published by the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Edinburgh, UK, and can be found at  http://www.chemeng.ed.ac.uk/ecosse/reports.

All EDRC Technical Reports were published by the Engineering Design Research Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, and can be found at
http://www.edrc.cmu.edu/reports/abstracts/deftxt.html.

R.T. Lakshmanan and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “éclair: A User´s Guide to Version 1.0”, ECOSSE TR-96-03 (1996).

R.T. Lakshmanan and R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “User Guide to PCON: A Process CONstraint Language”, ECOSSE TR-96-02 (1996).

J.M.P. King, R. Bañares-Alcántara and G.H. Ballinger.  “Current and Future Work in KBDS: Automatic report generation and evaluation of positions”, ECOSSE TR-94-20 (1994).

The épée group.  “The épeé Programming and Reference Manual.  épée 0.2 Release”, ECOSSE TR-94-18 (1994).

R. Bañares-Alcántara, H.M.S. Lababidi, G.H. Ballinger and J.M.P. King.  “KBDS: A Support System for Chemical Engineering Conceptual Design”, ECOSSE TR-94-06 (1994).

G.H. Ballinger, R. Bañares-Alcántara and J.M.P. King.  “Using an IBIS to Record Design Rationale”, ECOSSE TR-93-17 (1993).

The épée group.  “The épeé Programming and Reference Manual.  Draft épeé 0.2 Beta Release”, ECOSSE TR-93-13 (1993).

D. Sriram, R. Bañares-Alcántara, V. Venkatasubrahmanian, A.W. Westerberg and M.D. Rychener.  “Knowledge-Based Expert Systems: An Emerging Technology for CAD in Chemical Engineering”, EDRC 06-22-86 (previously EDRC 06-76-85) (1986).

R. Bañares-Alcántara, L.T. Biegler, R. Edahl, I. Grossmann, and S.N. Talukdar.  “An Expert System Approach to On-Line Optimization”, EDRC 06-17-86 (1986).


Publications submitted or in preparation

(a)  In refereed journals

M. Alvarado, R. Bañares-Alcántara. “Organisational Memory of Design Based on Objectives, Participants and Activities”, to be submitted to Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, August (2004).

J. Martínez-Miranda, M. Alvarado, A. Aldea, R. Bañares-Alcántara.  “Fuzzy Sets for modelling human behaviour for the configuration of teams”, in preparation July (2004).


(b)  In book collections
abstracts submitted to ESCAPE 15, Barcelona, 29 May-1 June (2005).

R. Bañares-Alcántara, L. Jiménez, A. Aldea. “Multi-agent systems for ontology-based information retrieval”

Kokossis, R. Bañares-Alcántara, L. Jiménez, P. Linke. “h-TechSight: A knowledge management platform for technology intensive industries”

X. Flores, M. Poch, I. Rodríguez-Roda, R. Bañares-Alcántara, L. Jiménez. “Hierarchical decision approach: the key of activated sludge process redesign”



(c)  Refereed conference papers
 abstracts submitted to the 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, 10-14 July, Glasgow (2005).

López-Arévalo, A. Rodríguez-Martínez, R. Bañares-Alcántara, L. Jiménez, A. Aldea.  “Generation of process alternatives using Case-Based Reasoning”

J. Martínez-Miranda, M. Alvarado, A. Aldea, R. Bañares-Alcántara, M. Cervantes.    “Industrial validation of a system to support the configuration of teams”

Kokossis, R. Bañares-Alcántara, L. Jiménez, P. Linke. “Monitoring technology trends through the use of dynamic ontologies”

L. Jiménez, B. Gauss, R. Bañares-Alcántara, G. Wozny. “e-learning in chemical engineering: similarities and contrasts of students and faculty members preconceptions”

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