Student Travel Support for the Symposium on Stabilization, Safety and Security (SSS 2010), New York City, September 20-22, 2010

本提案旨在为美国学生参加将于2010年9月20日至22日在纽约市举行的第12届国际稳定、安全和安保研讨会（SSS 2010）提供差旅支持。随着大规模网络的迅速发展，动态分布式系统的稳定性、安全性和保密性问题变得至关重要。为了促进这些领域研究的发展，并在未来保持全球领导地位，美国的学生参加这次研讨会，与这些学科的领导者见面，并更新自己的最新技术是至关重要的。虽然稳定有助于分布式系统自发地从故障和环境扰动（如用户需求和节点移动性）的影响中恢复，在一个实体和网络安全不断受到威胁的世界上，安全和安保至关重要。出席SSS会议将使美国学生获得网络和分布式系统稳定，安全和安全等关键领域的第一手知识，并将知识带回家乡机构，以丰富他们的研究。这一提议的更广泛影响是，美国学生将更好地准备在竞争激烈的世界中保持全球领导地位。旅行支助将用于特别鼓励妇女和少数民族学生的参与，使这些代表性不足的社区有动力接受先进的计算机科学教育和研究。

This proposal seeks travel support for US-based student participants to the 12th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security (SSS 2010) to be held in New York City during September 20-22, 2010. With the rapid growth of large-scale networks, the issues of stabilization, safety and security have assumed critical importance in dynamic distributed systems. To foster the growth of research in these areas and to maintain global leadership in the future, it is vital for US-based students to participate in this symposium, meet the leaders in these disciplines, and update themselves on the state-of-the-art. While stabilization helps distributed systems spontaneously recover from the effects of failures and environmental perturbation like user demands and node mobility, safety and security are of critical significance in a world where physical and cyber security are under constant threat. Atendance to the SSS conference will enable US-based students gain first-hand knowledge in the key areas of stabilization, safety and security in networks and distributed systems, and bring back the knowledge to their home institutions for the enrichment of their research. The broader impact of this proposal is that US-based students will be better prepared to maintain global leadership in a competitive world. The travel support will be used to specifically encourage the participation of women and minority students, so that these underrepresented communities become motivated towards advanced computer science education and research.