Support for the 8th International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems-WODES '06. The workshop will be held on July 10-12, 2006 in Ann Arbor on the campus of University of Michigan

B项目摘要寻求NSF的支持，以帮助组织第八届离散事件系统国际研讨会-WODES06，该研讨会将于2006年7月10日至12日在密歇根大学校园的安娜堡举行。WODES是一年两次的系列会议，完全致力于离散事件系统领域。它有100-150名研究人员(主要来自学术界)参加，具有相当大的国际多样性。自1992年以来，所有过去的七届WODES都在欧洲举行。WODES会议不是由任何技术组织资助的。在过去，主办机构一直是这次会议的赞助商。WODES06是第一届在美国举行的WODES。它将为来自不同领域的研究人员(控制理论家和控制工程师、软件工程师和计算机科学家、运筹学研究专家)提供一个交流信息和新思想的机会，并讨论离散事件系统理论和应用的新发展。这次会议将对这些领域的美国学生特别有吸引力，他们过去没有参加过WODES。它为他们提供了一个独特的机会，让他们接触到离散事件系统多学科领域的最新研究趋势。会议的组织者打算向学生与会者提供更低的注册率，以鼓励他们参与。此外，组织者还特别努力通过行业赞助、受邀的会议和软件演示来吸引工业研究人员参加会议。广泛的影响：WODES06将对美国控制工程、嵌入式系统、软件系统和运筹学的研究生群体产生广泛的教育影响，并在将对离散事件系统的建模、分析、验证、诊断、控制、优化和仿真感兴趣的理论和实践者聚集在一起方面达成协议。

B Project SummarySupport is sought from NSF to help with the organization of the 8th International Workshop on DiscreteEvent Systems - WODES06, to be held in Ann Arbor on the campus of the University of Michigan, July 10-12, 2006. WODES is a bi-annual series of conferences entirely devoted to the field of discrete event systems.It is attended by 100-150 researchers (primarily from academia), with considerable international diversity.All past seven editions of WODES have been held in Europe, every other year since 1992. WODES conferencesare not financially sponsored by any technical organization. In the past, host institutions have beensponsoring the conference.WODES06 is the first edition ofWODES to be held in the US. It will provide researchers from differentfields (control theoreticians and control engineers, software engineers and computer scientists, operationsresearch specialists) with an opportunity to exchange information and new ideas, and to discuss new developmentson the theory and applications of discrete event systems. The conference will be particularlyattractive to US students in these fields who have not been able to attend WODES in the past. It offersa unique opportunity for them to get exposed to the latest research trends in the multidisciplinary area ofdiscrete event systems. The organizers of the conference intend to offer reduced registration rates to studentattendees in order to encourage their participation. Moreover, the organizers are making a special effortto solicit participation of industrial researchers at the conference through industrial sponsorship, invitedsessions, and software demonstrations.Broader Impacts: WODES06 will have broad educational impact on the US graduate student communityin control engineering, embedded systems, software systems, and operations research as well as broadimpact in bringing together theoreticians and practitioners with interest in modeling, analysis, verification,diagnosis, control, optimization, and simulation of discrete event systems.