NSF Workshop on the Frontiers of Stochastic Systems, Networks and Control. The workshop will be held on October 27, 2012 at Texas A and M University

目的：随机系统和控制前沿研讨会将邀请来自学术界和工业界的参与者，研究网络物理系统的各个方面。其目的是加强社区间合作，应用从控制理论、网络科学和随机过程到互联网络物理设备网络的新兴分析工具和技术。智力优势：最近，通信技术在语音电话以外的应用中得到了大量采用。在将通信技术集成到诸如交通和电力网络的许多系统中方面已经取得了重大进展，从而产生了在大规模物理网络中集成传感、通信和分布式控制的网络物理系统的概念。通信网络与分布式控制思想适用的许多不同领域的融合意味着来自不同背景的学术和行业研究人员应该进行互动，以探索从他们不同的角度产生的相互协同作用。研讨会将包括研讨会和讨论，以促进学生，教师，政府和行业参与者之间的长期合作。更广泛的影响：本次研讨会将向学生介绍前沿的想法以及研究和行业的最新趋势。因此，研讨会的一个主要部分是教育学生和其他参与者的基本问题和解决方案的方向，在空间的分布控制系统。

Objective: The Workshop on the Frontiers of Stochastic Systems and Control will host participants from academia and industry, working on various aspects of cyber-physical systems. The aim is to increase inter-community collaboration in the applications of emerging analytical tools and techniques from control theory, network science and stochastic processes to networks of interconnected cyber-physical devices. Intellectual Merit: The recent past has seen the significant adoption of communication technology in applications well beyond voice telephony. There have been significant advances in the integration of communication technology into a number of systems such as transportation and power networks, leading to the notion of cyber-physical systems that integrate sensing, communication, and distributed control in large scale physical networks. The confluence of communication networks with a number of different areas to which ideas of distributed control apply, implies that academic and industry researchers from diverse backgrounds should interact in order to explore mutual synergies that arise from their different perspectives. The workshop will consist of seminars and discussions to foster long-term collaborations between the student, faculty, government and industry participants. Broader Impact: This workshop will introduce students to cutting edge ideas as well as recent trends in research and industry. Hence, a major part of the workshop is the education of students and other participants on fundamental problems and solution directions in the space of distribution control of systems.