Student Travel for PerMIS 2009

这笔资金用于支持大约15名本科生和研究生参加2009年智能系统性能指标(PERMIS)研讨会，该研讨会将于2009年9月21-23日在马里兰州盖瑟斯堡举行。PERMIS研讨会汇集了来自学院、大学、研究实验室和政府实验室的研究人员，讨论如何设计和评估智能系统。该研讨会是唯一一个致力于定义评估智能系统性能的措施和方法的研讨会。PERMIS系列始于2000年，专注于将绩效测量应用于商业、工业、国土安全和军事应用中的实际问题。事实证明，它是一个极好的论坛，供研究人员、研究生和来自工业界、学术界和政府机构的从业人员进行讨论和伙伴关系、传播思想和未来的合作。作为其主要主题，今年的研讨会寻求解决这个问题：性能衡量是否加快了智能系统的进步步伐？除了学生通过参加研讨会获得的好处外，他们还可以在研讨会上了解当前的研究，展示自己的工作，并从各自领域的专业人员那里获得反馈，PERMIS组织者还将提供有组织的指导和网络机会。学生们将在研讨会开始时见面，互相介绍彼此以及一些研讨会的组织者。他们还将与精选的高级研究人员共进午餐，以鼓励互动。他们将得到如何听取研究报告并进行批判性思考的指导。组织者将采取积极的措施，鼓励申请者的多样性，宣布为计算机科学领域的女性邮寄名单、Tapia研讨会邮寄名单提供资金，并通过NSF扩大对计算联盟的参与。广泛的影响：在学生时代参加研讨会和会议有助于成功的研究事业。学生资助PERMIS研讨会的旅行将有助于将学生介绍给该领域的其他研究人员，增加他们对该领域所做研究的知识，并鼓励他们继续从事研究。每个学生将被要求在Permis 2009年写一份关于他或她的经历的报告，这将与旅费报销文件一起交上来。在他们的报告中，学生们将被要求写下全体会议的简短总结以及他们对会议的反应。他们还将被要求讨论每一次全体会谈与研讨会上至少另外两次会谈的关系。这些报告将被用来评估受资助学生参与活动的成功程度，并将与最终项目报告一起提交给国家科学基金会。

This is funding to support the participation of approximately 15 students, both undergraduate and graduate, in the 2009 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS) Workshop, which will be held in Gaithersburg, Maryland, on September 21-23, 2009. The PerMIS workshop brings together researchers from colleges, universities, research laboratories, and government laboratories to discuss how to design and evaluate intelligent systems. This workshop is the only one of its kind dedicated to defining measures and methodologies of evaluating performance of intelligent systems. Started in 2000, the PerMIS series focuses on applications of performance measures to practical problems in commercial, industrial, homeland security, and military applications. It has proved to be an excellent forum for discussions and partnerships, dissemination of ideas, and future collaborations between researchers, graduate students, and practitioners from industry, academia, and government agencies. As its main theme, this year's workshop seeks to address the question: Does performance measurement accelerate the pace of advancement for intelligent systems? In addition to the benefits students derive from attending a workshop where they can learn about current research, present their own work, and get feedback from professionals in their field, PerMIS organizers will provide structured opportunities for mentoring and networking. Students will meet at the start of the workshop to be introduced to one another and some of the workshop organizers. They will also have a luncheon with select senior researchers, to encourage interaction. And they will be given guidance about how to listen to research presentations and think critically about them. The organizers will take proactive steps to encourage diversity in the applicant pool by announcing the availability of funding to mailing lists for women in computer science, the Tapia Workshop mailing list, and through NSF's Broadening Participation in Computing Alliances.Broader Impacts: Participation in workshops and conferences during one's student years can contribute to a successful research career. Student funding for travel to the PerMIS workshop will serve to introduce students to other researchers in the field, increase their knowledge of the research done in the field, and encourage them to continue their pursuit of research. Each student will be asked to write a report on his or her experiences at PerMIS 2009, which will be due with the travel reimbursement paperwork. In their reports, the students will be asked to write brief summaries of the plenary talks and their reactions to them. They will also be asked to discuss how each of the plenary talks relates to at least two other talks at the workshop. These reports will be used to evaluate the success of the funded student participation in the event, and will be submitted to NSF with the final project report.