Workshop on Networked Sensing, Information and Control; Boston, MA, Winter 2006

为网络传感、信息和控制国际研讨会提供资金的建议请求支持组织一个网络传感、信息和控制国际研讨会。研讨会将于2006年1 - 2月在波士顿地区举行，为期两天，周五和周六。会议将围绕处理网络传感的信息和数学方面的技术领域组织。鉴于本课题工作的广度和多样性，我们期待系统界（系统与控制、信号处理和信息论）的广泛兴趣和参与。我们要求提供49,500美元的资金，以支持讲习班参与者的旅行和生活。智力优势：本次研讨会的目的是将研究网络传感系统的信息和数学方面的研究人员聚集在一起。在著名的国际会议上，专门讨论传感器网络具体方面的几次独立特别会议的爆炸式增长证明了这个讲习班的重要性和及时性。尽管有这些努力，但焦点一直集中在网络传感的具体和孤立的方面，需要跨学科的努力来整合来自不同研究团体的想法。研讨会将汇集来自控制，信息理论和信号处理的国际知名研究人员，专注于分布式感知，推理和网络控制的共同主题。广泛影响：考虑到该主题的同时代性质，我们毫不怀疑，研究和工业界将普遍表现出极大的兴趣。研讨会将组织小组讨论，以解决教育课程和研究之间以及产业界和学术界之间的差距。我们还将尝试组织小组会议，重点讨论确定不同研究团体之间的关键分歧以及弥合这些差距的建设性方法。研讨会将通过出版由组织者和一些项目委员会成员编辑的论文和论文集来传播研讨会的成果。

Proposal to Fund an International Workshop onNetworked Sensing, Information and ControlSupport is requested for organizing an international workshop on networked sensing,information and control. The workshop will be held in Boston area over two days, Fridayand Saturday, in Jan-Feb 2006 time frame. The meeting will be organized around thetechnical domains dealing with informational and mathematical aspects of networked sensing.On account of breadth and diversity of work in this topic, we expect very broad interestand participation from the systems community (systems and control, signal processing andinformation theory). We are requesting $49,500 in funds to support travel and subsistencefor workshop participants.Intellectual Merit: The aim of the proposed workshop is to bring together researchersstudying informational & mathematical aspects of networked sensing systems. The impor-tance and timeliness of this workshop is evidenced by the explosion of several independentspecial sessions devoted to specific aspects of sensor networks in reputed international confer-ences. Despite these efforts the focus has been on specific and isolated aspects of networkedsensing and there is a need for cross-disciplinary efforts to integrate ideas from the variousresearch communities. The workshop will bring together internationally reputed researchersfrom control, information theory and signal processing focused on the common theme ofdistributed sensing, inferencing, and control over networks.Broad Impact: On account of the contemporaneous nature of the topic, we have no doubtthat there will significant interest evinced by the both the research and industrial communityat large. The workshop will organize panel discussions to address gaps between educationalcurricula and research, as well as between industry and academia. We will also attempt toorganize panel sessions focused on identifying critical divides between the different researchcommunities and constructive ways of bridging these gaps. The workshop will disseminatethe outcome of the workshop through publication of a volume of papers and essays editedby the organizers as well as some members from the program committee.