The 6th Midwest Workshop on Control and Game Theory; Ann Arbor, Michigan

网络控制系统或网络物理系统，如智能电网系统或智能交通系统，以及电子商务和社交网络平台，都是现代信息时代广泛使用的社会网络的一些例子。网络控制系统方法论具有更广泛的适用性，其技术和思想有助于理解人群中的意见传播或时尚的出现和流行。构思和设计这些系统涉及到来自控制论、博弈论、最优化、经济学、应用概率和计算的专家的深入、跨学科和协作努力。这是2017年4月22日至23日在密歇根州安娜堡举办第六届中西部控制与博弈论研讨会的基础，我们将汇集来自中西部各州的控制、优化、博弈论、经济学和计算方面的顶尖学术专家，以促进这些研究人员之间的思想交流以及研究互动和合作。研讨会旨在促进所有参与者之间广泛的研究讨论、合作和开放的思想交流，并为中西部的年轻研究人员提供指导和反馈。研讨会将接待两名全体演讲者，来自其他中西部机构的15名特邀演讲者，以及来自密歇根大学安娜堡分校的三名特邀演讲者。所有演讲者都是控制、博弈论、最优化、经济学、应用概率和计算领域的领先学术专家。他们将介绍他们目前的研究工作，并讨论他们的研究愿景。全体演讲者还将在他们的演讲中就问题和研究问题提供更广泛的观点。研讨会将向来自中西部所有大学的研究生和博士后研究人员开放，这些年轻的研究人员将展示海报并介绍他们最近的工作。受邀发言者名单还将反映组委会在吸收妇女和少数群体参与方面的多样性，以及密歇根大学为促进这一目标所做的承诺和努力。作为更广泛范围的另一种体现，我们的目标也将是增加所有中西部机构对本次研讨会的总体参与。研讨会主题的研究生和博士后研究人员将从所有中西部机构和所有地区征集强有力的参与。

Networked control systems or cyber-physical systems, such as those seen in smart grid systems or intelligent transportation systems, and also e-commerce and social networking platforms, are some examples of societal networks that are widely used in our modern information age. The networked control system methodology has even broader applicability with the techniques and ideas aiding in the understanding of opinion spread in a population or the emergence and prevalence of fads. Conceiving and engineering these systems involves in-depth, inter-disciplinary, and collaborative efforts by experts drawn from controls, game theory, optimization, economics, applied probability and computation. This forms the basis for organizing the 6th Midwest Controls and Game Theory Workshop on April 22 - 23,2017 in Ann Arbor, MI, where we will be bringing together leading academic experts on controls, optimization, game theory, economics and computation from the mid-western states to foster an exchange of ideas as well as research interactions and collaborations between these researchers.The workshop aims to promote extensive research discussions, collaborations and open exchanges of ideas among all the participants, and to provide mentoring and feedback to the young researchers in the mid-west. The workshop will host two plenary speakers, fifteen invited speakers from other mid-western institutions, and three invited speakers from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. All the speakers are leading academic experts in the fields of controls, game theory, optimization, economics, applied probability and computation. They will be presenting their current research work and discussing their research visions. The plenary speakers will also be providing a broader viewpoint of issues and research problems in their talks. The workshop will be open to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers from all the mid-western universities, and these young researchers will be presenting poster and talks on their recent work. The invited speakers list will also reflect the diversity of the organizing committee in terms of involving women and minorities, as also the commitment and efforts of the University of Michigan to promote it. As another refection of the broader scope we will also be targeting an increased overall participation for this workshop from all the mid-western institutions. Strong graduate student and post-doctoral researcher participation will be solicited from all Midwestern institutions, and from all areas in the theme of the workshop.