Doctoral Mentoring Consortium at the Sixteenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

该补助金支持学生参加博士生导师联盟（DMC）在第十三届国际会议自主代理和多智能体系统（AAMAS），新加坡，2017年5月8日至12日选择学生的旅行。 这是在代理和多代理系统（MAS）的研究人员在一个完全国际化的研究社区的首要国际会议。 这个联盟是面向研究和职业发展的学生谁已经确定了他们的博士课题，并刚刚开始独立的研究。DMC的中心活动包括学生与同龄人展示和讨论他们的工作的机会;与一组确定的高级研究人员进行互动，以获得博士学位的建议。研究，一个职业小组讨论在工业界和学术界的职业选择，由指定的导师领导的小组活动，以及大量的机会与AAMAS的国际研究界进行互动，这可能会导致未来的合作活动。此外，DMC还包括一个全天和半天教程的教程计划，将提供该领域领先研究人员对特定子领域的详细概述。赞助学生前往AAMAS传达了DMC计划之外的许多好处。赞助的学生可以充分利用一个完善的AAMAS研讨会和会议计划，涵盖了这个社区的各种研究领域。这是一个机会，让学生参与讨论与来自世界各地的科学家，并探索新的研究方向和课题。今年AAMAS还包括机器人，虚拟代理，创新应用和特殊挑战和愿景的独特会议活动。学生也有机会参加示威活动。代理技术和代理相关的软件和硬件的演示是一个重要的动机和灵感的萌芽研究人员的来源。AAMAS是主要的国际会议，将在继续参与代理和MAS的学生的研究生涯中占据突出地位。学生们从这个更广泛的场所的技术思想交流中获得宝贵的研究见解。在这个过程中，他们与来自世界各地的潜在合作者建立了宝贵的联系。随着智能软件和嵌入式系统变得越来越普遍，很明显，智能代理技术的进步将在广泛的领域产生重大影响，包括健康和福祉，电子商务和国防等国家优先事项。

This grant supports student travel for select students participating in the Doctoral Mentoring Consortium (DMC) at the Thirteenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Singapore, May 8-12, 2017. This is the premier international conference for researchers in agents and multi-agent systems (MAS) across a fully international research community. This consortium is oriented on research and career development for students who have identified their PhD topics and are just embarking on that independent research. The central activities for the DMC include opportunities for students to present and discuss their work with their peers; interaction with an identified group of senior researchers for advice on Ph.D. research, a career panel to discuss career choices in industry and academia, small group activities led by assigned mentors, and a great deal of opportunity for interactions with the international research community in AAMAS, which might lead to future collaborative activity. In addition, the DMC includes a tutorial program with full-day and half-day tutorials that will provide detailed overviews of specific subfields by leading researchers in the field. Sponsoring student travel to AAMAS conveys many benefits beyond the DMC program. The sponsored students have full access to a well-developed AAMAS workshop and conference program covering a diverse range of research areas in this community. This is an opportunity for students to engage in discussion with scientists from around the world and to explore new research directions and topics. This year AAMAS also includes unique conference activities in Robotics, Virtual Agents, Innovative Applications and Special Challenges and Visions. Students also have the opportunity to attend the Demonstrations track. Such demonstrations of agent technologies and agent-related software and hardware are a significant source of motivation and inspiration to budding researchers. AAMAS is the major international conference that will figure prominently in the research careers of students who remain involved in agents and MAS. Students gain valuable research insights from the exchange of technical ideas in this broader venue. In the process, they make valuable connections with potential collaborators from around the world. As intelligent software and embodies systems become more prevalent, it is clear that advances in intelligent agent technology will have significant impact in a wide range of domains, including such national priorities as health and wellbeing, e-commerce, and national defense.