Support of the Doctoral Symposium at the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC)

对云计算和自主计算的研究横跨多个领域，从分布式系统、计算机体系结构、中间件服务、数据库和数据存储、网络、机器学习和控制理论。第五届国际自主计算会议(ICAC)的目的是将这些学科的研究人员和从业者聚集在一起，讨论云和自主计算的多个方面。会议期间，廉政公署举行了一个博士研讨会。博士研讨会的目的是让参加研讨会的学生参与互动，为他们提供研究和职业指导机会。这样的会议对博士生的总体影响可能是巨大的，无论是在他们学习的早期还是后期。博士座谈会上的研究报告将公开发表。因此，正如NSF的使命所说，这个项目符合国家利益：促进科学进步；促进国家健康、繁荣和福祉；或保障国防。为了使学生能够增加与其他研究人员的互动，来自行业和学术界的专家将被邀请参加研讨会计划和/或在廉政博士研讨会上发表主题演讲。博士研讨会的主要目标是(1)为研究生提供一个展示他们的研究并获得该领域专家反馈的场所；(2)允许博士生在主要会议--S海报会议上展示他们的工作；以及(3)通过提供来自产业界和学术界的代表的职业建议来指导博士生。此外，ICCAC博士研讨会还将专门为与会博士生提供职业指导。廉政公署组织委员会理解出席会议的博士生背景的多样性，虽然有些人会进入工业界，但也会有一些人进入学术界。因此，职业指导课程将允许学生倾听这两个领域的专家并与之互动。这一奖项反映了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。

Research in cloud and autonomic computing spans a variety of areas, from distributed systems, computer architecture, middleware services, databases and data-stores, networks, machine learning, and control theory. The purpose of the Fifth International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) is to bring together researchers and practitioners across these disciplines to address the multiple facets of cloud and autonomic computing. ICAC is holding a doctoral symposium during the conference. The doctoral symposium is meant to engage students attending the symposium with interactions that provide them with research and career mentoring opportunities. The overall impact that such a meeting can have on Ph.D. students, both early and late in their studies, can be significant. The research presentations at the Doctoral Symposium will be made publicly. This project, thus, serves the national interest, as stated by NSF's mission: to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; or to secure the national defense.To enable students to increase their interactions with other researchers, experts from both industry and academia will be invited to participate in the symposium program and/or deliver keynote talks at the ICAC doctoral symposium. The primary objectives of the doctoral symposium are to (1) provide a venue for graduate students to present their research and obtain feedback from experts in the area; (2) allow Ph.D. students to present their work at the main conference?s poster session; and (3) mentor the PhD students by providing career advice from representatives in industry as well as academia. Furthermore, the ICCAC doctoral symposium will have a special session devoted to career mentoring for Ph.D. students in attendance. The ICAC organization committee understands the diversity in the background of the Ph.D. students that attend the conference - while some will go into industry there will be those who go into academia. Therefore, the career mentoring session will allow students to listen and interact with experts in both areas.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.