Doctoral Mentoring Consortium at the Fourteenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-16)

该奖项支持来自美国院校的一组精选研究生参加将于2016年5月9日至13日在新加坡举行的自主代理和多代理系统国际会议（AAMAS 2016）和相应的博士指导联盟（DMC）。AAMAS是多智能体系统的主要会议。由于代理适用于许多技术，包括信息检索、电子商务、机器人技术和教育任务等，因此世界范围内对代理研究的兴趣日益浓厚。DMC将在主会议开始之前举行，使学生能够充分参与会议和联盟的各个方面。DMC的活动将涉及多个层面的互动，其中：1)学生将与同龄人展示和讨论他们的工作；2)学生将磨练自己的能力，在一分钟的电梯演讲中简洁地描述他们的研究；3)学生的研究成果将以海报形式展示，向所有与会者开放；4)学生将与高级项目委员会的一名导师配对，导师将在会议期间与学生私下会面，就他们的论文主题提供反馈。DMC通常以精选的受邀演讲者为特色，最后是由学术界、工业界和政府的研究人员组成的职业咨询小组。在会议期间，学生将有机会最大限度地进行国际互动，并建立新的专业联系。

This award supports the participation of a select group of graduate students from US institutions at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2016) and the accompanying doctoral mentoring consortium (DMC) to be held in Singapore, May 9-13, 2016. AAMAS is the premier conference on multi-agent systems. There is an increasing interest in research on agents worldwide because of the many technologies where agents are applicable including: information retrieval, electronic commerce, robotics, and education tasks among many others. The DMC will be held before the start of the main conference, enabling the students to participate fully in all aspects of both the conference and the consortium. The activities at the DMC will involve interactions at multiple levels, where: 1) students will present and discuss their work with their peers; 2) students will hone their ability to succinctly describe their research in a one minute elevator pitch; 3) student research will be shown at a poster session, open to any conference attendee; and 4) students will be paired with a mentor from the senior program committee, who will meet with them privately during the conference to provide feedback on their dissertation topics. The DMC usually features a selection of invited speakers and culminates with a career advice panel with researchers from academia, industry, and government. During the course of the conference, students will have the opportunities to maximize international interactions and make new professional connections.