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Rafael Batres
Associate Professor

Contact Information

Toyohashi University of Technology
Department of Production Systems Engineering
Hibarigaoka 1-1, Tempaku-cho
Toyohashi 441-8580
Japan

Phone: +81-532-44-6716
Fax: +81-532-44-6690
E-mail: rbp

Research Interests

My research is carried out in four basic areas: the first area covers the design and operation of manufacturing processes; the second area focuses on sustainable decision making; the third area is about material and product design; and the last one focuses on plant safety. Research in the first group includes process synthesis and automatic generation of operating procedures. In the sustainability area we investigate approaches for the modeling and optimization of socio-technical systems, diffusions of new technologies, supply chain design and simulation, and agent-based modeling. Research in the materials and product design area includes product-service system design, and parameter identification of metallic materials. In the safety area, my research involves the reuse of past accident data, and the development of methods for safety evaluation. Common elements between the areas include: artificial intelligence reasoning, ontology design and evaluation, data mining, mathematical and statistical modeling, and meta-heuristic optimization.

Education

Ph.D., Process Systems Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1999
M.S., Process Systems Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1997
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1993

Publications

Batres, R. (2013). Generating operating procedures using a micro genetic algorithm. Computers and Chemical Engineering (In press)
Akmal, S. and Batres, R. (2013). Ontology-based Similarity for Product Information Retrieval. Computers in Industry (Accepted with minor changes) (2013)
Akmal, S. and Batres, R. (2013). A Methodology for Developing Manufacturing Process Ontologies. Journal of the Japan Industrial Management Association (Accepted with minor changes) (2013)
Batres, R. and Akmal, S. (2013). A FCA-based method for developing process ontologies. Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan (In Press) (2013)
Batres, R., Fujihara, S., Shimada, Y., & Fuchino, T. (2012). The use of ontologies for enhancing the use of accident information. Process Safety and Environmental Protection (To appear)
Batres, R. (2012). Generating operating procedures using a micro genetic algorithm. Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, Vol. 31, pp. 1316-1320
Miyazaki, T., Sugiura, J., Nagatomi, T., & Batres, R. (2012). Integration of Process synthesis and Location-Transportation for the Design of Biomass Conversion Systems. Computer-Aided Chemical Engineering, Vol. 30, pp. 197-201
Tsujioka, Y., Akmal, S., Takada, Y., Kawai, H., & Batres, R. (2012). Semantic similarity for case-based reasoning in the context of GMP. Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, Vol. 31, pp. 830-834
Yasuda, R., & Batres, R. (2012). An Agent-based Model for Analyzing Diffusion of Biodiesel Production Schemes. Computer-Aided Chemical Engineering, Vol. 30, pp. 192-196
Akmal, S., Batres, R., Shih, L. H. (2012). An Ontology-based Approach for Product-Service System Design. Proceedings of the 4th CIRP International Conference on Industrial Product-Service Systems, Tokyo, Japan, November 8th - 9th, 2012, pp 67-72
Miyazaki, T., Sugiura, J., & Batres, R. A Nested Optimization Method for Supporting the Design of Biomass Utilization Networks, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 480-492 (2011) (In Japanese)
Akmal, S., & Batres, R. (2011). Ontology-based semantic similarity measures for product-service system design. Paper presented at the 2011 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2011, 932-937.
Batres, R., Y. Shimada, T. Fuchino. A collaborative framework for enabling efficient information extraction in accident databases. 2011 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM Beyond Regulatory Compliance - Making Safety Second Nature, October 25?27, College Station, Texas, USA (2011)
Toda, H., S. Masuda, R. Batres, M. Kobayashi, S. Aoyama, M. Onodera, R. Furusawa, K. Uesugi, A. Takeuchi, Y. Suzuki. Statistical assessment of fatigue crack initiation from sub-surface hydrogen micropores in high quality die-cast aluminum. Acta Materialia, Vol. 59, No. 12, pp. 4990-4998 (2011)
Firmansyah, T. & R. Batres. An Agent Cloning Approach for Process Design of Discrete Plants. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. LNAI 6883, pp. 395-404, Springer-Verlag (2011)
Fuchino, T., Y. Shimada, T. Kitajima, K. Takeda, R. Batres, Y. Naka. A Business Process Model for Process Design that Incorporates Independent Protection Layer Considerations.@Computer Aided Chemical Engineering 29, pp. 326-330
Batres, R. Automation Engineering Education from an International Perspective. Journal of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 261-266 (2011)
Sugiura, J., H. Kawai, Y. Shimada, T. Fuchino. A Knowledge-based Framework for Incident Management of Pharmaceutical Processes. Proceedings of the 20th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering - ESCAPE20. Ischia, Naples, Italy, June 6-9 (2010)
Firmansyah, T., I. Sulaymanov, and R. Batres. A Backward Induction Method for Safety-Conscious Process Design of Discrete Plants. The 5th International Symposium on PSE ASIA 2010 Design, Operation and Control of Chemical Processes, July 25-28, 2010, Singapore. pp. 1013-1021 (2010)
Erdenechimeg, S., Y. Shimada, T. Fuchino, and R. Batres. Development of a Chemical-Reaction Ontology for Accident-Databases. The 5th International Symposium on PSE ASIA 2010 Design, Operation and Control of Chemical Processes, July 25-28, 2010, Singapore. pp. pp. 922-931 (2010)
Batres, R., Takashima, H., and T. Fuchino. A Multi-agent Approach to Process Design. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010, Volume 4693/2010, pp. 720-727 (2010)
Batres, R., T. Fuchino, Y. Shimada. A Semantic Approach for Incident Database Development. IChemE Symposium Series ISBN 978 0 85295 536 9, No. 155, pp. 477-484 (2009)
Batres, R., H. Muramatsu, Y. Shimada, T. Fuchino, P. W. H. Chung. Systematic ontology development of accident databases. Proceedings of the 19th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering - ESCAPE 19, pp. 1171-1175 (2009)

More publications

Ilyas Sulaymanov, Rafael Batres. A Multi-Agent System for Process Design. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Scheduling 2009, Nagoya, Japan, pp. 149-152 (2009)
Mikiya Suzuki and Rafael Batres. A tabu-search approach for generating safer operations sequences. Proceedings of the ICROS-SICE International Joint Conference 2009, Fukuoka, Japan, pp.5199-5202 (2009)
K. Kato and R. Batres. Using data-mining techniques to design biomass classifications. Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing (EcoDesign 2009), Sapporo, 7-9 December, pp. 997-1001 (2009)
T. Miyazaki, Y. Miyoshi and R. Batres. A system-design approach to support comprehensive biomass utilization solutions. Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing (EcoDesign 2009), Sapporo, 7-9 December, pp. 1009-1013 (2009)
J. Sugiura, Y. Miyoshi and R. Batres. A model for the selection of biomass conversion technologies. Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing (EcoDesign 2009), Sapporo, 7-9 December, pp. 1015-1019 (2009)
Ayoub, N., Batres, R., & Naka, Y. (2009). An approach to wicked problems in environmental policy making. WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development, 5(3), 229-239
Batres, R., T. Fuchino, Y. Shimada. A Graphical Approach for Representing Hazard Scenarios. Fire & Safety, Summer (2008)
Batres, R., H. Takashima, Y. Shimizu. Multi-agent Service Composition for Technology Selection. Proceedings of the 18th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering - ESCAPE 18, CDROM (2008)
Batres, R., T. Suzuki, Y.Shimada, T.Fuchino. A graphical approach for hazard identification. Proceedings of the 18th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering - ESCAPE 18, CDROM (2008)
Batres, R., T. Fuchino, Y. Shimada. A Graphical Approach for Representing Hazard Scenarios (Part 1). 42nd Loss Prevention Symposium, New Orleans, USA (2008)
Batres, R., M. West, D. Leal, D. Price, K. Masaki, Y. Shimada, T. Fuchino and Y. Naka. An upper ontology based on ISO 15926. Computers & Chemical Engineering, 31, No. 5-6, pp. 519-534 (2007)
Batres, R., K. Hayashi, Y. Shimizu. An Agent-based Infrastructure for Integrated Life-cycle Engineering. Revista de Chimie, 58(4) pp. 397-400 (2007)
Batres, R., H. Takashima, T. Fuchino. A Multi-agent Approach to Process Design. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4693, pp. 720-727 (2007)
Fuchino, T., R. Batres, Y. Shimada. A Knowledge-Based Approach for the Analysis of Abnormal Situations. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4693, pp. 712-719 (2007)
Shimada, Y,, R. Batres, T. Fuchino, T. Kawabata. Incident Investigation based on Causality Networks, 12th International Symposium on Loss Prevention and Safety Promotion in the Process Industries, Institution of Chemical Engineers Symposium Series, Vol. 15, May. 2007
Batres, R., K. Hayashi, Y. Shimizu. A Web-based Infrastructure for Integrated Life Cycle Engineering. CD-R Proceedings of the 17th European Symposium on Computer-Aided Process Engineering, Bucharest, Romania (2007)
Suzuki, M., R. Batres, T. Fuchino, Y. Shimada, P. W. Chung. A knowledge-based approach for accident information retrieval. Proceedings ofthe 16th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, Elsevier, pp 1057-1062 (2006)
Kraines, S., M. Koyama, and R. Batres. An Emergent Simulation Modeling Approach for Discovery of Knowledge on Phenomena in Chemical Systems. Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan. Vol. 39(9), pp. 1010-1027 (2006)
Kraines, S., R. Batres, B. Kemper, M. Koyama, and V. Wolowski. Internet-Based Collaboration for Integrated Environmental Assessment in Industrial Ecology, Part II Semantic Searching based on Ontologies and Agent Systems for Knowledge Discovery. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 10(4), pp. 37-60 (2006)
Batres, R., M. West, D. Leal, D. Price. An Upper Ontology based on ISO 15926. Proceedings of the 15th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, Elsevier, pp. 1543-1548 (2005)
Batres, R. and Y. Naka. A Matchmaking Environment for the Selection of Biomass Processing Technologies. Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Design, Operation and Control of Chemical Processes. Seoul, Korea, pp. 253-258 (2005)
Fuchino, T., T. Takamura, R. Batres. Development of an Engineering Ontology on the basis of IDEF Activity Model. KES, Springer-Verlag, pp. 162-168 (2005)
Kraines, S., R. Batres, M. Koyama, D. Wallace and H. Komiyama. Internet-Based Integrated Environmental Assessment: Using Ontologies to Share Computational Models. Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 9, Issue 3, pp. 31-50 (2005)
Batres, R., A. Aoyama, T. Fuchino, Y. Naka, H. Sumida, Y. Shimada, N. Takagi. A System Theoretic Approach to Support HAZOP Studies, Asian Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering (APCChE), Kitakyushu (2004)
Batres, R. An Ontology Approach to Support HAZOP Studies, Asian Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering (APCChE), Kitakyushu 2004
Batres, R, M. L. Lu and X. Z. Wang. Concurrent Process Engineering And Integrated Decision Making. Presented at PSE 2003 Kunming China June 22-27 2003
Kuraoka, K., R. Batres. An Ontological Approach to Represent HAZOP Information. Process Systems Engineering Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Technical Report TR-2003-01, April (2003)
Batres, R. J. Soutter, S. P. Asprey, P. Chung. Operating procedure synthesis: science or art? Knowledge Engineering Review, Vol. 17, pp. 261-294 (2002)
Batres, R., A. Aoyama, and Y. Naka. A Life-Cycle Approach for Model Reuse and Exchange. Comp. Chem. Eng., Vol. 26, No. 4-5, pp. 487-498 (2002)
Batres, R., A. Aoyama, and Y. Naka. Representing Recipes And Procedures With PSL. Escape-12, 26 - 29 May 2002. The Hague, The Netherlands (2002)
Batres, R., A. Aoyama, and Y. Naka. Design Rationale as an Enabling Factor for Concurrent Process Engineering. Proceedings of the WWDU 2002 World-Wide Work - May 22-25, 2002. Berchtesgaden, Germany (2002)
Batres, R., B. Braunschweig, R.Chatterjee, R. Garcia-Flores, C. Krobb, A. Yang, and X. Z. Wang. New Frontiers in CAPE: Software Agents. In Software Architectures for Computer-Aided Process Engineering, B. Braunschweig and R. Gani Eds., Elsevier Science (2002)
Batres, R., Y. Naka. Process Plant Ontologies based on a Multi-Dimensional Framework. In Foundations of Computer Aided Process Design, AIChE Symposium Series, No. 323, ISBN No: 0-8169-0826-5 (2000)
Yuji Naka, A. Aoyama, Rafael Batres, Akio Shimizu, Kazuhisa Hamada, K. Kameda, T. Kagiyama, I. Matsumoto, M. Hirao, H. Hayashi, A. Inaba. Technological information infrastructure for design and operation of recycling systems. Proceedings EcoDesign 2001: Second International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing (2001)
Asprey S. P., R. Batres, T. Fuchino and Y. Naka. Mixture Control: Simulation-Based Operations Planning In The Presence Of Quantitative Safety Constraints. Hung. J. Ind. Chem., Vol. 28, 1-80 (2000)
Asprey, S. P., R. Batres, T. Fuchino, and Y. Naka. Optimal Simulation-Based Operations Planning with Quantitative Safety Constraints, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Vol. 38, No. 6, pp. 2364-2374 (1999)
Batres, R., M. L. Lu and Y. Naka. A Multidimensional Design Framework and its Implementation in an Engineering Design Environment. Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 43-54 (1999)
Naka, Y., R. Batres, T. Fuchino. Operational Design and its Benefits in Real-time Use, in Foundations of Computer Aided Process Operations, Edited by B. Carnahan; J. F. Pekny; and G. Blau, 570 pp., ISBN 0-8169-0776-5 (1999)
Batres, R., S. P. Asprey, T. Fuchino, and Y. Naka. A KQML Multi-Agent Environment for Concurrent Process Engineering. 9th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, Budapest, Hungary May 31-June 2 (1999)
Batres, R., S. Lee, M. L. Lu, Y. Naka. Study on Safety Evaluation and Operational Design for Startup. Process Safety Progress, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 37-42 (1997)

Industrial Systems Engineering Group
Toyohashi University of Technology
Faculty of Engineering, Production Systems Engineering Division
Hibarigaoka 1-1, Tempaku-cho, Toyohashi 441-8580, Japan