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

目标：随机系统和控制前沿研讨会将接待来自学术界和工业界的与会者，他们致力于网络物理系统的各个方面。其目的是加强社区间在应用新兴分析工具和技术方面的合作，从控制理论、网络科学和随机过程到相互连接的网络物理设备的网络。智力优势：最近的过去见证了通信技术在远远超出语音电话的应用中的重大采用。在将通信技术集成到交通和电力网络等许多系统方面取得了重大进展，导致了将传感、通信和分布式控制集成到大规模物理网络中的网络物理系统的概念。通信网络与分布式控制思想应用到的一些不同领域的汇合意味着，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：这个工作坊将向学生介绍前沿的想法以及研究和工业的最新趋势。因此，工作坊的一个主要部分是教育学生和其他参与者关于系统分布控制空间中的基本问题和解决方向。

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.