Conference: US-Taiwan Workshop on Smart and Connected Communities, Agriculture, and Cyber-Physical Systems Research

该项目支持协调一系列研讨会和会议，以探索台湾研究人员和美国研究人员在智能互联社区和相关学科相关领域的更深层次科学合作。会议将与台北驻美国经济文化代表处(TECRO)共同安排。国际合作的一个重大挑战是超越配对阶段，以鼓励更深入的合作，从而可能带来新的发现。拟议的努力分几个不同的阶段进行：(1)美国和台湾参与者之间的虚拟会议，旨在发现机会，开始有意义的合作，从而可能导致更深层次的参与；(2)通过现有的资助机制进行国际合作，基于数据交换或结果复制，以建立对合作机制的信心；(3)面对面的研讨会，允许合作团队展示他们在第二阶段的努力；以及(4)根据有希望的调查路线规划研究人员之间的资助项目。虚拟研讨会在两个晚上的时间里探索台湾和美国在智能互联社区、网络物理系统和智能农业方面所做努力的相似之处。这个(虚拟)研讨会将包括对NSF和TECRO领导的合作范围的讨论，对研究人员的简要介绍，然后是研究人员探索如何通过跨太平洋合作深化他们的研究的分组会议。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。

This project supports the coordination of a series of workshops and meetings to explore deeper scientific collaborations between researchers from Taiwan and researchers in the United States in areas related to Smart & Connected Communities and related disciplines. The meetings will be arranged in conjunction with the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) in the United States. A significant challenge with international collaboration is to go beyond the matchmaking phase, in order to encourage deeper collaboration that could lead to new discoveries.The proposed effort takes place over several distinct phases: (1) a virtual meeting between US and Taiwanese participants, aimed at discovering opportunities to start meaningful collaborations that could result in deeper engagement; (2) international collaboration through existing funding mechanisms, based on exchange of data or replication of results to build confidence in collaboration mechanisms; (3) an in-person workshop that allows collaborating teams to present their efforts from Phase 2; and (4) planning for funded engagements between researchers based on promising lines of inquiry.The virtual workshop explores, over 2 evenings, similarities between efforts taking place in Taiwan and the United States along the lines of Smart & Connected Communities, Cyber-Physical Systems, and Smart Agriculture. This (virtual) workshop will include a discussion of the scope of the collaboration led by NSF and TECRO, brief introductions of researchers, and then breakout sessions where researchers explore how their research could be deepened through cross-pacific collaboration.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.