Travel Support for Bertinoro Workshop on Future Directions in Distributed Computing

2002年6月，一个关于分布式计算基础的研讨会将在意大利的Bertinoro举行。从43份优秀论文中，共选出30篇白皮书发表，并邀请46名研究人员（包括一些学生）参加研讨会。NSF为这些学生提供旅行资助，以支持他们出席会议，其中许多人的预算非常紧张。该研讨会将有助于为分布式计算的新一代研究制定议程，同时也将欧洲和美国在该领域的研究团体联系在一起。白皮书的质量非常高，我们已经与斯普林格出版社接洽，希望能对其进行修改，并将其扩展成一本书的篇幅。我们的希望是，我们可以利用研讨会来制定一个统一的愿景，并阐明该学科各个领域的研究议程，然后将其用作白皮书的结构。由此产生的书将是艺术状态的快照，也是未来十年研究机会的连贯衔接。

In June of 2002, a workshop will be held on Fundamentals of DistributedComputing at Bertinoro, Italy. From a set of 43 outstandingsubmissions, a total of 30 white papers were selected for publication,and 46 researchers (including a number of students) invited to attendthe workshop. NSF provides travel funding to support attendanceby these students, many of whom are on very tight budgets. The workshopwill help set the agenda for a new generation of research in distributedcomputing while also knitting together the European and Americanresearch communities in the area. Quality of the white papers was very high, and we have approachedSpringer-Verlag about the possibility of revising and extending theminto a book-length treatment. Our hope is that we might use theworkshop to develop a unified vision and to elucidate the researchagenda in various areas of the discipline, then use this as a structurefor the white papers. The resulting book will be both a snapshot of thestate of the art and also a coherent articulation of researchopportunities in the coming decade.