Proposal for Supporting Travel Expenses to Attend the 7th IEEE Real-Time Technology and Application Symposium (RTAS) in Taipei, Taiwan

Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, College Station TX

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Abstract

This proposal seeks to sponsor travel expenses for graduate students and junior faculty members to attend the 7th IEEE Real-Time Technology and Application Symposium (RTAS) to be held in Taipei, Taiwan and sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Real- Time Systems. RTAS provides a forum for presenting the latest advances in real-time systems research and for discussing the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. A special mission of RTAS 2001 is to foster discussion and technology exchange in the real-time computing and communication communities between Asia and North America. As such, we have invited Dr. C. L. Liu (who developed the rate-monotonic scheduling theory in the 70's and is currently the president of National Ching-Hua University in Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) to serve as the Honorary Chair, and top-notch researchers in both Asia, Americas, and Europe to serve on the Technical Program Committee. In addition to single-track technical sessions, we will also organize tutorials and workshops that address practical, temporal QoS issues in application domains or over the Internet. The symposium, as many other academic activities, relies on the experience of senior members of the community but requires fresh ideas and new people to join the community. As such, and to encourage graduate students and young faculty members to participate in the exciting technical program, we are requesting support to defray the travel expenses for graduate students and junior faculty attendees. The total amount requested is $12,000 on the basis of an average travel grant of $1,200 for each selected junior faculty participant and $800 for each selected graduate student. We believe attendance at this Symposium will be very beneficial to young scientists who otherwise would be unable to participlate in the gathering. Contacts for future (international) collaborations will be made and idea exchange will certainly occur. Travel support for student and junior faculty attendance will be advertised nationwide and women, minorities and disabled students will be especially encouraged to apply for sponsorship.