Travel: Student Travel Grant for Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS) 2024

该奖项支持博士联盟(DC)项目的选定参与者参加定于2024年6月6日至8日在加拿大阿尔伯塔省卡纳纳斯基斯举行的第十七届组合搜索研讨会(SoCS 2024)的学生旅行。SOCS是一个著名的会议，专门为启发式搜索和组合优化领域的研究人员设计。SOCS的DC项目旨在支持博士生在其学术旅程的所有阶段的研究和职业发展。DC项目的主要活动包括将学生与高级研究人员配对的导师计划，涵盖该领域各种有趣研究主题的多个大师班，高级研究员为学生提供研究建议的职业建议讲座，以及为学生提供口头和海报演示机会，以分享他们的研究成果。这些活动为学生提供了与知名研究人员接触、获得研究反馈、获得职业可能性建议以及与同行和国际研究人员建立网络的极好机会，可能会导致未来的合作。从人工智能(AI)的早期开始，启发式搜索和组合优化就一直是人工智能(AI)的核心。在21世纪，这一领域的研究稳步增长并取得了显著进展。例如，搜索现在是规划、机器人、离散优化、视频游戏、GPS导航、自主仓库以及计算机科学和运筹学研究的其他领域的主导范例。SOCS的一个重要方面是它非常注重培养和支持启发式搜索和组合优化领域的学生。除了DC计划之外，支持学生到SoC旅行还有许多好处。受赞助的学生将有机会参加主要的SOCS会议，其精心开发的项目涵盖了本社区的各种研究领域，包括受邀的演讲、演讲、海报、社区会议和社会活动，为学生提供了与世界各地的研究人员进行讨论并探索新的研究方向和主题的极好机会。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 award supports student travel for selected participants of the Doctoral Consortium (DC) program at the Seventeenth Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS 2024), scheduled to take place in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, from June 6 to 8, 2024. SoCS is a well-established conference designed specifically for researchers in the area of heuristic search and combinatorial optimization. The DC program of SoCS is designed to support the research and career development of Ph.D. students at all stages of their academic journey. Key activities of the DC program include a mentorship program that pairs students with senior researchers, a number of master classes that cover various interesting research topics in the area, a career-advice talk by a senior researcher that offers research advice to students, as well as both oral and poster presentation opportunities for students to share their research. These activities provide great opportunities for students to engage with established researchers, get feedback on their research, gain advice on career possibilities, and network with peers and international researchers, potentially leading to future collaborations.Heuristic search and combinatorial optimization have been at the core of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from the very early days of AI. Research in this area has steadily grown and advanced significantly during the 21st century. For example, search is now a dominant paradigm in planning, robotics, discrete optimization, video games, GPS navigation, autonomous warehouses, and other areas of computer science and operations research. A significant aspect of SoCS is its strong focus on nurturing and supporting students in the field of heuristic search and combinatorial optimization. Supporting student travel to SoCS offers numerous benefits beyond the DC program. Sponsored students will have full access to the main SoCS conference with a well-developed program covering a diverse range of research areas in this community with invited talks, presentations, posters, community meetings, and social activities, providing students with great opportunities to engage in discussion with researchers worldwide and explore new research directions and topics.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.