Workshop for Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation in Operations Research; Seattle, Washington; November 3-7, 2007

本次研讨会旨在于2007年11月3日至7日在西雅图举行的INFORMS年会上向运筹学界传播网络发现与创新（CDI）的目标。PI将邀请主要演讲者，他们将提供适合CDI征求的研究项目类型的见解。美国国家科学基金会的项目官员也将出席，为这个研究团体提供指导。选择研讨会的地点是为了方便参加INFORMS会议的大约4000名与会者。这次研讨会是一次及时的工作，将大大提高NSF收到的提案的质量。演示文稿和常见问题将发布在网上（www.datadrivendecision.osu.edu），从而使其他人也能从研讨会中受益。

This workshop is intended to be a workshop to disseminate the goals of Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) to the Operations Research community at the INFORMS Annual Meeting which will be held in Seattle, November 3-7, 2007. The PI will invite key speakers who will provide insights into the types of research projects which will be appropriate for the CDI solicitation. NSF program officers will also be present to provide guidance to this research community. The venue of the workshop was chosen to make the workshop easily accessible to the roughly 4000 participants at the INFORMS meeting.This workshop is a timely undertaking, and will greatly enhance the quality of proposals received by NSF. The presentations and the frequently asked questions will be posted on the web (www.datadrivendecision.osu.edu), thus allowing others to also benefit from the workshop.