Travel Support for MASS 2007 Conference

最近对无线网络和移动计算的研究使得越来越多的人接受了用于医院、战场和监控场景等应用的自组网和传感器网络。2004年发起了一个名为MASS（移动自组织和传感器系统）的国际会议。经过三年的成功举办，第四次会议将于2007年10月8日至11日在意大利比萨举行。意大利IIT-CNR的Marco Conti教授将担任总主席，瑞士SUPSI的Silvia Giordano教授和加拿大渥太华大学的Ivan Stojmenovic教授将担任项目联合主席。Dharma Agrawal教授是指导委员会主席。这些年来，来自世界各地的研究人员参加了这次会议，这次会议已经成为一个重要的国际会议。其中一个重要的方面是为这次会议选择最好的论文，召开会议只是为了促进创造一个优秀的方案。我们还鼓励作者参加本次会议，为部分作者提供部分旅费。申请资金用于支持论文被录用的作者参加MASS 2007会议以及PC委员会成员参加委员会会议的旅费。

Recent research on wireless networks and mobile computing has led to increasing acceptance of ad-hoc and sensor networks for applications such as hospital, battlefield, and monitoring scenarios. An international meeting called MASS (Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems) was initiated in the year 2004. After successful organization for last three years, the fourth meeting will be held in Pisa, Italy from October 8-11, 2007. Professor Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy will be serving the General Chair while Professor Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland and Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada are serving as Program Co-Chairs. Professor Dharma Agrawal is the Steering Committee Chair.In all these years, researchers across the globe have participated and this meeting has become a premier international conference. One of the important aspects is to select the best papers for this meeting and a meeting is held just to facilitate creation of an outstanding program. We also encourage authors to attend this meeting by offering partial travel funds to a subset of authors. Funds are request to support travel for authors of accepted papers to the MASS 2007 conference as well as PC committee members to participate in Committee meeting.