First high-technology mission in decision engineering to visit Russia

Cranfield University will lead an International Technology Service Mission to Russia in the field of Decision Engineering, from 20-24 May 2002. The mission, which has been organized by the British Embassy in Moscow and the British Consulate-General in St. Petersburg, will be the first of its kind to visit Russia.

Decision Engineering is an emerging discipline that aims to develop tools and techniques for informed operational and business decision making within industry by utilizing distributed organizational knowledge and data. The subject areas of Mission include: Cost Estimation and Cost Engineering in Aerospace, Transport, Oil and Gas Industry; Knowledge Capture and Reuse; Intelligent Systems application in Industry for decision making and collaboration.

During their visit to Moscow the participants will visit Moscow State University, Faculty of Computational Mathematics, Institute of Systems Programming of Russian Academy of Sciences, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, ANTK "Tupolev", Aerospace Consortium, Luxoft, Petrocom and EPAM Systems. They will also meet officials from the Ministries of Railways and Economy.