Student Travel for PerMIS 2009

这笔资金将支持大约15名本科生和研究生参加将于2009年9月21日至23日在马里兰州盖瑟斯堡举行的2009年智能系统性能指标（PerMIS）研讨会。PerMIS研讨会汇集了来自学院、大学、研究实验室和政府实验室的研究人员，讨论如何设计和评估智能系统。该研讨会是同类研讨会中唯一致力于定义评估智能系统性能的度量和方法的研讨会。从2000年开始，PerMIS系列侧重于性能测量在商业、工业、国土安全和军事应用中的实际问题的应用。它已被证明是一个讨论和伙伴关系、传播思想以及研究人员、研究生和来自工业界、学术界和政府机构的实践者之间未来合作的绝佳论坛。今年研讨会的主题是：性能评估是否会加速智能系统的发展步伐？除了参加研讨会的学生可以获得的好处，他们可以了解当前的研究，展示自己的工作，并从他们的领域的专业人士那里得到反馈，PerMIS组织者将提供结构化的机会指导和网络。学生们将在研讨会开始时见面，互相介绍并认识一些研讨会的组织者。他们还将与精选的高级研究人员共进午餐，以鼓励互动。他们将被指导如何听取研究报告并对其进行批判性思考。组织者将采取积极措施，通过宣布为计算机科学领域的女性邮件列表、Tapia Workshop邮件列表以及NSF的“扩大参与计算联盟”提供资金，来鼓励申请者群体的多样性。更广泛的影响：在学生期间参加研讨会和会议可以为成功的研究生涯做出贡献。学生资助前往PerMIS研讨会的旅费将有助于向学生介绍该领域的其他研究人员，增加他们对该领域所做研究的了解，并鼓励他们继续追求研究。每位学生将被要求写一篇关于他或她在2009年的经历的报告，这将与旅行报销文件一起提交。在他们的报告中，学生们将被要求写出全体会议的简短总结以及他们对这些发言的反应。他们还将被要求讨论每次全体会谈与讲习班上至少另外两次会谈的关系。这些报告将用于评估受资助学生参与活动的成功程度，并将与最终项目报告一起提交给美国国家科学基金会。

This is funding to support the participation of approximately 15 students, both undergraduate and graduate, in the 2009 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS) Workshop, which will be held in Gaithersburg, Maryland, on September 21-23, 2009. The PerMIS workshop brings together researchers from colleges, universities, research laboratories, and government laboratories to discuss how to design and evaluate intelligent systems. This workshop is the only one of its kind dedicated to defining measures and methodologies of evaluating performance of intelligent systems. Started in 2000, the PerMIS series focuses on applications of performance measures to practical problems in commercial, industrial, homeland security, and military applications. It has proved to be an excellent forum for discussions and partnerships, dissemination of ideas, and future collaborations between researchers, graduate students, and practitioners from industry, academia, and government agencies. As its main theme, this year's workshop seeks to address the question: Does performance measurement accelerate the pace of advancement for intelligent systems? In addition to the benefits students derive from attending a workshop where they can learn about current research, present their own work, and get feedback from professionals in their field, PerMIS organizers will provide structured opportunities for mentoring and networking. Students will meet at the start of the workshop to be introduced to one another and some of the workshop organizers. They will also have a luncheon with select senior researchers, to encourage interaction. And they will be given guidance about how to listen to research presentations and think critically about them. The organizers will take proactive steps to encourage diversity in the applicant pool by announcing the availability of funding to mailing lists for women in computer science, the Tapia Workshop mailing list, and through NSF's Broadening Participation in Computing Alliances.Broader Impacts: Participation in workshops and conferences during one's student years can contribute to a successful research career. Student funding for travel to the PerMIS workshop will serve to introduce students to other researchers in the field, increase their knowledge of the research done in the field, and encourage them to continue their pursuit of research. Each student will be asked to write a report on his or her experiences at PerMIS 2009, which will be due with the travel reimbursement paperwork. In their reports, the students will be asked to write brief summaries of the plenary talks and their reactions to them. They will also be asked to discuss how each of the plenary talks relates to at least two other talks at the workshop. These reports will be used to evaluate the success of the funded student participation in the event, and will be submitted to NSF with the final project report.