2006 NSF Workshop and Outreach Tutorial on Approximate Dynamic Programming: Bridging Neural Networks and AI for Managing Complex Systems will be held Spring 2006 in Cancun

该研讨会包括两个部分：（1）高级会议，汇集了自适应动态规划（ADP）的最佳研究人员，跨学科，通常不相互交流;（2）外展部分，为学生和其他领域的研究人员提供关于ADP在各个领域工作的扩展教程，特别强调讲西班牙语的受益者。智力优势：ADP是开发真正的通用智能系统或开发设计或管理大型复杂系统的最佳方法所需的主要基本使能技术之一。以前只有一次研讨会或会议汇集了对加强行动平台问题特设工作组有贡献的主要学科-2002年由国家科学基金支助的关于这一领域的研讨会。（www.eas.asu.edu/cnnsfadp）在研讨会上，很明显，学科之间更大的合作将是决定如何快速取得进展的最重要因素。为了应对这一领域的基本挑战，对未来研究方向和机会的讨论也将在项目规划中发挥重要作用。更广泛的影响：上一次会议的书是一个关键的产品，对该领域很重要，但需要更多的东西来开发更多类似于教科书的教学材料，并帮助在一个学科学习ADP的中级人员了解其他学科的工作。希望这次讲习班的外联部分将有助于满足这一需要，并有助于更好地利用西班牙语社区的新人才。

This workshop consists of two parts: (1) an advanced conference, bringing together the best researchers in adaptive dynamic programming (ADP), across disciplines which do not ordinarily communicate with each other; (2) an outreach section, providing extended tutorials on ADP work in various areas for students and researchers in other areas, with a special emphasis on Spanish-speaking beneficiaries. Intellectual Merit: ADP is one of the main fundamental enabling technologied needed to develop truly general-purpose intelligent systems, or to develop optimal ways to design or manage large complex systems in general. There has been only one previous workshop or conference bringing together the main disciplines contributing to ADP - the 2002 NSF-supported workshop on this area. (www.eas.asu.edu/~nsfadp) In that workshop, it became clear that greater collaboration between disciplines will be the most important factor in deciding how rapidly progress occurs here. Discussions about future directions and opportunities for research, in order to address the basic challenges here, will also be important in program planning.Broader Impacts: The book from the previous conference was a critical product, important to this field, but more is needed to develop more pedagogic material similar to a textbook, and to assist mid-level people studying ADP in one discipline to understand the work in other disciplines. It is hoped that the outreach section of this workshop will help meet that need, and also help in better utilizing new talent from the Spanish-speaking communities.