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

该资助将为参加第26届基于案例推理国际会议（ICCBR）的约20名美国入选学生提供旅费，该会议将于2018年7月9日至12日在瑞典斯德哥尔摩举行。这是一个主要的国际会议，研究人员在基于案例的推理研究领域跨越一个完整的国际研究社区。这项活动将汇集人工智能领域的广泛研究人员，特别是涉及编码、检索和重用经验的系统的研究，从而实现自动化形式的类比推理。该活动为处于关键早期职业阶段的初级研究人员提供支持，并为那些可能因缺乏资源而无法参加人工智能会议的参与者创造了机会。对于那些规模较小的机构和那些人工智能项目不太发达的机构来说尤其如此。吸引这样的参与者有可能吸引更多的人才进入人工智能研究，在他们的形成阶段改进研究思路，并在学科的广度上产生合作。这个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。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.