2006 NSF Workshop and Outreach Tutorial on Approximate Dynamic Programming: Bridging Neural Networks and AI for Managing Complex Systems will be held Spring 2006 in Cancun

本次研讨会由两部分组成：(1)高级会议，汇集了自适应动态规划（ADP）领域最优秀的研究人员，这些研究人员通常不会相互交流；(2)外展部分，为其他领域的学生和研究人员提供各个领域的ADP工作扩展教程，特别强调讲西班牙语的受益人。智力优势：ADP是开发真正通用智能系统或开发设计或管理大型复杂系统的最佳方法所需的主要基本启用技术之一。以前只有一次研讨会或会议汇集了对ADP有贡献的主要学科- 2002年nsf支持的关于该领域的研讨会。（www.eas.asu.edu/~nsfadp）在那次研讨会上，很明显，各学科之间更大的合作将是决定这里进展速度的最重要因素。讨论未来的研究方向和机会，以解决这里的基本挑战，在方案规划中也很重要。更广泛的影响：从上次会议的书是一个关键的产品，对这个领域很重要，但需要更多的开发更多的教学材料类似于教科书，并帮助中级人员学习一个学科的ADP理解其他学科的工作。希望这次讲习班的外联部分将有助于满足这一需求，并有助于更好地利用来自西班牙语社区的新人才。

This workshop consists of two parts: (1) an advanced conference, bringing together the best researchers in adaptive dynamic programming (ADP), across disciplines which do not ordinarily communicate with each other; (2) an outreach section, providing extended tutorials on ADP work in various areas for students and researchers in other areas, with a special emphasis on Spanish-speaking beneficiaries. Intellectual Merit: ADP is one of the main fundamental enabling technologied needed to develop truly general-purpose intelligent systems, or to develop optimal ways to design or manage large complex systems in general. There has been only one previous workshop or conference bringing together the main disciplines contributing to ADP - the 2002 NSF-supported workshop on this area. (www.eas.asu.edu/~nsfadp) In that workshop, it became clear that greater collaboration between disciplines will be the most important factor in deciding how rapidly progress occurs here. Discussions about future directions and opportunities for research, in order to address the basic challenges here, will also be important in program planning.Broader Impacts: The book from the previous conference was a critical product, important to this field, but more is needed to develop more pedagogic material similar to a textbook, and to assist mid-level people studying ADP in one discipline to understand the work in other disciplines. It is hoped that the outreach section of this workshop will help meet that need, and also help in better utilizing new talent from the Spanish-speaking communities.