SPIRE'06 Symposium in Glasgow: Support for Student Attendance

该提案要求提供资金，以支持英国学生出席会议，并支付将于2006年10月在格拉斯哥举行的字符串处理和信息检索研讨会（SPIRE 2006）的主旨发言人的费用，由斯特拉斯克莱德大学主办。SPIRE 2006是SPIRE的第13版。该系列的前四个版本主要关注字符串处理（SP），并在南美洲举行。从1998年开始，重点扩大到包括信息检索（IR）领域，因为它与字符串处理领域的相关性和相互关系越来越大。此外，自2000年以来，会议地点一直在南美洲、拉丁美洲和欧洲之间交替，偶数年在欧洲举行。SPIRE系列会议的范围不仅包括字符串处理中的基本算法，还包括不同应用领域的贡献，如生物计算，DNA测序，基于WWW的IR系统和IR相关语言，如SGML和XML。鉴于其跨学科的性质，它为来自计算机科学，信息科学和工程的研究人员提供了一个独特的机会，他们对与这些领域相关的问题感兴趣，以满足并讨论如何合作实现最佳解决方案。SPIRE是IR和SP社区可以会面并讨论未来合作和协同作用的极少数论坛之一。通过支持英国学生参加SPIRE 2006，我们的目标是最大限度地提高这一事件对英国IR和SP社区的影响。这是SPIRE第一次在英国举行，我们认为，如果英国的研究生失去参加的机会，那将是一种耻辱。出席也有利于研究学生在其他方面。它使他们能够与来自英国，欧洲和更远地区的IR和SP领域的领先成员会面并讨论他们的想法。两位受邀演讲者是各自领域最知名的两位研究人员。

This proposal is requesting funding to support UK student attendance and also to cover the costs of keynote speakers at the Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 2006) which will be held in Glasgow in October 2006, hosted by the University of Strathclyde. SPIRE 2006 is 13th edition of SPIRE. The first four editions of this series focused primarily on string processing (SP) and were held in South America. From 1998 the focus broadened to include the area of information retrieval (IR) due to its increasing relevance and its inter-relationship with the area of string processing. In addition, since 2000, the conference venue has been alternating between South and Latin America and Europe, being hosted in Europe on even years. The scope of the SPIRE series of conferences includes not only fundamental algorithms in string processing but also contributions in different application areas like biocomputing, DNA sequencing, WWW based IR systems and IR related languages like SGML and XML. Given its inter-disciplinary nature, it offers a singular opportunity for researchers from computer science, information science and engineering interested in working with problems related to these areas to meet and discuss how to collaborate towards the best solutions.SPIRE is one a very few fora where the IR and SP communities can meet and discuss future collaborations and synergies. By supporting UK student attendance to SPIRE 2006 we aim at maximising the impact of this event on the UK IR and SP communities. This is the first time SPIRE is held in UK and in our view it would be ashame from many UK research students to loose the opportunity to attend. Attendance also benefits research students in other way. It enables them to meet and discuss their ideas with leading members of the IR and SP field from both the UK, Europe, and further afield. The two invited speakers are two of the best known researchers in their respective fields.