WORKSHOP: Doctoral Consortium for the International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simula

该奖项支持学生参加2019年社会计算、行为-文化建模与预测以及建模与仿真中的行为表征国际会议(SBP-BRIMS)。SBP-BRIMS会议的主要目标是将来自不同学科的研究人员、系统科学家和领域专家聚集在一起，讨论与计算社会科学以及文化和行为建模相关的多学科问题，目的是开发新的理论和方法来促进我们对社会互动的理解。SBP-BIMS会议稳步发展，每年约有130-220名来自学术界、工业界和政府部门的与会者参加；除了其跨学科性质外，这种工作环境的多样性为来自不同背景的研究人员之间的交流提供了难得的机会。这项提议的目标是通过支持来自STEM中代表性不足和边缘化群体的初级研究人员参与主要会议和会议的博士联盟，进一步增强这种多样性，帮助初级学者获得对他们提议的研究的深入反馈，并有机会围绕行为建模的计算方法与更广泛的研究社区建立联系。大会将于2019年7月在乔治华盛顿大学举行。将通过多种渠道招募参与者，包括与SBP-BIRMS研究领域有关的专业邮寄名单，以及由目标是增加未充分代表群体参与计算的各组织维护的名单。将支持最多15名学生参加博士座谈会和会议，选择标准基于学生工作对实地工作和会议上思想多样性的潜在贡献，并由会议和博士联合会联合主席管理。被选中的学生将参加一系列活动，包括研究报告、跨学科教程和由来自联邦机构的研究人员和项目工作人员参加的交叉培养圆桌会议，这些活动将为他们提供研究培训、专业发展和社区建设机会。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 to participate in the 2019 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS). The primary goal of the SBP-BRiMS conference is to bring together researchers, system scientists, and domain experts from diverse disciplines to discuss multidisciplinary problems related to computational social science and cultural and behavioral modeling, with the goal of developing novel theories and methodologies to advance our understanding of social interactions. The SBP-BRiMS conference has grown steadily, with approximately 130-220 participants per year attending from academia, industry and government sectors; along with its interdisciplinarity, this diversity in work contexts offers a rare opportunity for cross-fertilization between researchers from different backgrounds. This proposal's goal is to further enhance that diversity by supporting the participation of junior researchers from underrepresented and marginalized groups in STEM in both the main conference and the conference's doctoral consortium, help junior scholars get both deep feedback on their proposed research and chances to connect to the broader community of research around computational methods for modeling behavior. The conference will be held at George Washington University in July 2019. Participants will be recruited through a number of channels, including professional mailing lists related to SBP-BRiMS research areas and lists maintained by organizations whose goal is to increase participation of underrepresented groups in computing. Up to 15 students will be supported to attend the doctoral colloquium and conference, with selection criteria based on the potential contributions of students' work to the field and to the diversity of ideas at the conference and administered by the conference and doctoral consortium co-chairs. Selected students will participate in a number of activities, including research presentations, interdisciplinary tutorials, and cross-fertilization round table sessions involving researchers and program staff from federal agencies, that will offer them research training, professional development, and community building opportunities.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.