This project funds travel for graduate students to participate in PerCom 2013 to be held San Diego, Californiain March 2013. PerCom is the flagship international conference in pervasive computing. Students will participate in an organized PhD Forum, both before and during the conference, demonstrate their work in a Poster Session, give presentations about their research, and be mentored by senior researchers.
The IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom) is the flagship conference. IEEE PerCom 2013 was held in San Diego, California on March 18-22, 2013. It offered 20 US-based students (2 female and 1 minority)a valuable opportunity to attend the conference and learn about latest research findings in pervasive computing, systems and applications. Many of the sponsored students also presented their papers in the main conference, associated workshops or PhD forum and other sessions like demo, poster, work-in-progress. we request funds to offer travel support to students to attend the conference. Intellectual Merit. Papers presented at PerCom are of consistently high quality, typically with acceptance rate below 15-16%. Extended versions of selected papers from the PerCom 2013 were published after significant extensioons in a special issue of Elsevier’s Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal. The technical program of the conference helps promote new directions of research in pervasive computing. Broader Impact. The NSF travel support allowed 20 students (2 female and 1 minority) to attend IEEE Percom 2013. The NSF student travel opportunity was widely advertised via the PerCom web page (www.percom.org), various mailing lists and web sites targeted to women and minority students. Without the travel support, many of the US-based students would not otherwise be able to attend this top quality conference in the field.
