
London South Bank University London, England
Abstract:
Precision manufacturing (PM) pushes the boundaries of traditional machining, molding, and forming by incorporating advanced techniques such as scanning lithography, diamond machining, and laser machining. These approaches leverage diamond tools and cutting-edge metrology to tackle “Beyond Moore” fabrication challenges. The emergence of hybrid manufacturing methods, which integrate intelligent techniques such as laser and vibration assistance although addressing many limitations of conventional machining but remains a costly proposition. The talk will introduce a novel, accessible alternative to these methods while exploring the new frontiers of PM, including its application in fabricating next-generation antimicrobial surfaces. The discussion will also emphasize the role of advanced computational techniques in understanding organic-inorganic interactions and highlights Nature-inspired sustainable design and material development. Furthermore, breakthroughs in AI-driven approaches for creating environmentally friendly and sustainable materials will be showcased.

School of Civil Aviation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
Abstract:
In order to ensure the productivity and reliability of large scale industrial manufacturing sector, intelligent maintenance of rotating machineries has received significant amount of attention in recent years among the scientific community. This attention has been highly resonated lately by the researches based on the application of entropy theories such as Shannon entropy and its variants in the field of machine health diagnosis and prognosis. As statistical nonlinear measures, indices derived from entropy algorithms can characterize and quantify the machine health condition and its evolution in a continuous manner during its operation. Hence, entropy algorithms can be considered as a useful and reliable measure for developing and designing novel prognostic and health management techniques for rotating machineries. Considering the aforementioned interest among the researchers, this keynote aims to present latest developments of entropy theory and its application to the prognostic and health management of rotating machineries for the purpose of conducting intelligent maintenance operation.

Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Architect,
Amazon Web Services, USA
Abstract:
Autonomous AI agents for cloud infrastructure management — including incident remediation, cost optimization, and capacity planning — have gained significant attention in recent years as operational complexity surpasses human capacity for real-time decision-making. However, deploying multiple autonomous agents on shared infrastructure introduces coordination challenges such as conflicting actions, resource contention, and emergent behaviors that are difficult to predict analytically. Conventional approaches predominantly depend on centralized orchestration or static rule-based controls, which are often inadequate for handling dynamic multi-agent interactions at scale. To overcome these limitations, this paper proposes MACOS (Multi-Agent Cloud Operations Simulator), a discrete-event simulation framework driven by Monte Carlo methods that models the behavior of interacting autonomous agents across large-scale cloud environments. The framework introduces a novel Coordination Entropy Metric (CEM) that quantifies the degree of coordination breakdown between agents, enabling operators to identify dangerous interaction patterns before production deployment. Four coordination protocols — centralized orchestration, token-based mutual exclusion, consensus-based negotiation, and stigmergic coordination inspired by biological swarm systems — are evaluated under varying failure scenarios and agent densities. Experimental results demonstrate that uncoordinated multi-agent operations exhibit a 34% conflict rate at scale, while stigmergic coordination reduces conflicts to under 3% with minimal communication overhead. The study further reveals a phase transition phenomenon where system stability degrades sharply beyond a critical agent density threshold. This work highlights the importance of embedding simulation-based coordination testing and entropy-aware monitoring into autonomous cloud operations to enable safe, self-adaptive infrastructure management for large-scale cloud-native ecosystems.