The aim of this research program is threefold:

• To bring together a group of eminent researchers in subdisciplines of Statistics, Probability, Algebra, Artificial Intelligence, and some areas of applications to improve on the current understanding of the basic structures of Highly Structured Stochastic Systems (HSSS) models.
• To train graduate students in statistics, and researchers in areas of applications, in newly developed techniques. It is particularly important that graduate students be exposed to a variety of disciplines involved in the study of HSSS so that they may take a multidisciplinary approach in their research. In such workshops, students should also update their computational skills to be able to use and understand some of the most recent computational methods.
• To offer short courses, applicable to business, medical or social sciences, to introduce already developed software to non-specialists who are in decision-making positions (i.e. epidemiologists, consultants in investments, sociologists, etc.)