Doctoral Consortium Support for ICAPS 2013

这笔助学金支持学生参加国际自动化计划与调度会议(ICAPS)的博士导师联盟。ICAPS博士联盟(DC)是扩大博士研究人员在自动化规划和调度领域的参与和留住他们的主要方法。2013年6月在意大利罗马举行的ICAPS 2013年会是该活动的第11次。本次研讨会延续了多年举办DC和暑期学校的传统，提供了一个重要的场所，鼓励学生和初级研究人员进行自动化计划和日程安排。活动包括研究小组讨论，与导师共进午餐，以及作为主要会议的一部分举行的海报会议。DC在计划和调度方面聚集了更广泛的研究人员社区，促进了与人工智能和计算机科学其他领域的集成，并鼓励初级研究人员比其他地点更专注于这一领域。特别值得注意的是，可能会有以前可能没有参加过人工智能会议的参与者参与进来。对于那些在通常的人工智能研究社区之外的人来说尤其如此：那些在较小的机构中使用人工智能进行教学但不在研究中使用人工智能的人；来自较小/文科机构的人；以及来自STEM学科代表性较低的机构的人。

This grant supports student participation in a doctoral mentoring consortium at the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). The ICAPS Doctoral Consortium (DC) is a primary method for broadening participation and improving retention of doctoral researchers in the field of automated planning and scheduling. This DC at ICAPS 2013, June 2013 in Rome, Italy, is the eleventh occurrence of the event.This symposium is carrying on a multiyear tradition of holding DCs and summer schools, providing an important venue to encourage students and junior researchers in automated planning and scheduling. Activities include research panel discussions, lunch with mentors, and poster session held as part of the main conference. The DC brings together a broader community of researchers in planning and scheduling, promoting integration with other areas of AI and computer science, and encouraging junior researchers with a more focused attention to this area than is otherwise possible in other venues. Of particular note is the potential to involve participants who might not have attended an AI conference before. This is especially true for those outside of the usual AI research community: those at smaller institutions who use AI in teaching but not in research; those from smaller/liberal arts institutions; and those from institutions that are poorly represented in STEM disciplines.