Proposal for Supporting Travel Expenses to Attend the 7th IEEE Real-Time Technology and Application Symposium (RTAS) in Taipei, Taiwan

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This proposal seeks to sponsor travel expenses for graduate students and junior faculty membersto attend the 7th IEEE Real-Time Technology and Application Symposium (RTAS) to be heldin Taipei, Taiwan and sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems. RTAS provides a forum for presenting the latest advances in real-time systemsresearch and for discussing the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. Aspecial mission of RTAS 2001 is to foster discussion and technology exchange in the real-timecomputing and communication communities between Asia and North America. As such, we haveinvited Dr. C. L. Liu (who developed the rate-monotonic scheduling theory in the 70's and iscurrently the president of National Ching-Hua University in Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) to serve as theHonorary Chair, and top-notch researchers in both Asia, Americas, and Europe to serve on theTechnical Program Committee. In addition to single-track technical sessions, we will also organizetutorials and workshops that address practical, temporal QoS issues in application domains or overthe Internet.The symposium, as many other academic activities, relies on the experience of senior membersof the community but requires fresh ideas and new people to join the community. As such, andto encourage graduate students and young faculty members to participate in the exciting technicalprogram, we are requesting support to defray the travel expenses for graduate students and juniorfaculty attendees. The total amount requested is $12,000 on the basis of an average travel grantof $1,200 for each selected junior faculty participant and $800 for each selected graduate student.We believe attendance at this Symposium will be very beneficial to young scientists who otherwisewould be unable to participlate in the gathering. Contacts for future (international) collaborationswill be made and idea exchange will certainly occur. Travel support for student and junior facultyattendance will be advertised nationwide and women, minorities and disabled students will beespecially encouraged to apply for sponsorship.