RI: Student Travel Program for the 2018 International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning

这笔赠款支持大约20名美国精选学生参加第26届基于案例推理国际会议(ICCBR)的博士导师联盟(DMC)的旅费，该会议将于2018年7月9日至12日在瑞典斯德哥尔摩举行。这是在一个完全国际化的研究界，为案例推理研究领域的研究人员举行的首届国际会议。这项活动将把人工智能领域的广泛研究人员聚集在一起，特别是在涉及编码、检索和重复使用经验的系统的研究中，从而实现自动形式的类比推理。该活动支持处于职业生涯早期关键阶段的初级研究人员，并创造了机会，让那些可能因为缺乏资源而没有参加人工智能会议的参与者参加进来。对于那些在较小机构工作的人和那些人工智能程序开发程度较低的人来说，情况尤其如此。让这些参与者参与进来，有可能将更多的人才吸引到人工智能研究中，在他们的形成阶段改进研究想法，并产生跨学科的合作。这一活动为学生提供了宝贵的机会，让他们在研究的关键时刻接触到外界对他们工作的看法，并使他们能够探索自己的职业目标。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This grant supports travel costs for approximately 20 U.S. select students participating in the Doctoral Mentoring Consortium (DMC) at the 26th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR), which will take place from the 9th to 12th of July 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden. This is the premier international conference for researchers in the field of case-based reasoning research across a fully international research community. This activity will bring together a broad community of researchers in the field of AI, and in particular, in research involving systems that encode, retrieve, and re-use experiences, enabling an automated form of reasoning-by-analogy. The activity supports junior researchers at a critical early-career stage, and creates the opportunity to bring in participants who might not have attended an AI conference due to lack of resources. This is especially true for those at smaller institutions and those which have less developed AI programs. Engaging such participants has the potential to draw more talent into AI research, improve research ideas in their formative stage, and engender collaborations across the breadth of disciplines. This event provides students with invaluable exposure to outside perspectives on their work at a critical time in their research and enables them to explore their career objectives.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.