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IIS Division of Information & Intelligent Systems |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | July 29, 2021 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | July 29, 2021 |
| Award Number: | 2138698 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
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Erion Plaku
eplaku@nsf.gov (703)292-0000 IIS Division of Information & Intelligent Systems CSE Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering |
| Start Date: | November 1, 2021 |
| End Date: | October 31, 2024 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $12,000.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $12,000.00 |
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1050 STEWART ST. LAS CRUCES NM US 88003 (575)646-1590 |
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Corner of Espina St. & Steward Las Cruces NM US 88003-8002 |
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| NSF Program(s): | Robust Intelligence |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.070 |
ABSTRACT
This grant supports student travel for select students to participate in the Doctoral Mentoring Consortium (DMC) at the International Conference of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) that will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam November 6-12, 2021. This is the growing international conference for researchers in artificial intelligence (AI) research across a fully international research community. This activity will bring together a broad community of researchers in the field of KRR and support junior researchers at this critical early-career stage. The DMC creates the opportunity to bring in participants who might not have attended an AI conference due to lack of resources. This is especially true for those at smaller institutions and those which have less developed AI programs. Engaging such participants has the potential to draw more talent into AI research, improve research ideas in their formative stage, and engender collaborations across the breadth of disciplines. This event provides students with invaluable exposure to outside perspectives on their work at a critical time in their research and enables them to explore their career objectives.
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.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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This award provided funding to support four students to participate in the 18th and 19th International Conferences of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR), 2022 and 2023. KR 2023 took place in Haifa (Israel) from July 30 to August 7 and KR 2023 was in Rhode (Greece) from September 2 to 8, 2023.
KR is the top conference in the field of knowledge representation and reasoning, a subfield of Artificial Intelligence that focuses on the development of formal representation of knowledge and algorithms for infering conclusions from the encoded knowledge.
Organized biennially since 1989 and annually since 2020, KR has been the premier conference on knowledge representation and reasoning, KR conferences usually attract a world-wide audience and are well-attended (e.g. KR 2023 had 235 participants, with researchers from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, UK, and USA).
Besides the main technical track, each edition of the conference featured additional tracks (e.g., KR 2023 had the Applications & Systems Track, the special session on KR & ML, the special session on KR, Robotics & Planning), the Doctoral Consortium, and several tutorials and workshops). Each conference also features a series of invited talks from leading researchers in the field as well as trending topics. Participation in a premier conference of a field is therefore an extremely important part of doctoral students’ academic careers as it provides them with opportunity to interact with more senior researchers and peers as well as to be exposed to leading edge work. The support from this award made it possible for four students to participate in KR 2022 and 2023.
Last Modified: 03/29/2025
Modified by: Son C Tran
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