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

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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.