The budget is given in the following pages. We justify below the various components of it.
The number of GRA and PI months for each task in each year are given below.
l | c s | c s | c s
Milestone Year1 Year2 Year3
Faculty GRA Faculty GRA Faculty GRA
and Integration Scenarios
Session management and awareness (Wahab) 1 12 1 12 1 12
Data and UI model (Stotts) 1 12 1 12 1 12
Real-Time Services (Jeffay) 1 12 1 12 1 12
Sharing mechanisms (Dewan) 1 12 1 12
Concurrency and access control services (Smith) 1 12 1 12
Bus replication/migration mechanisms (Dewan) 1 12
Bus security (McHugh) 1 12 1 12 1 12
Total
Each milestone corresponds to a function we propose to add in the bus. Included in the work associated with the milestone is the cost of implementing the function, interfacing clients/providers of that service to the bus, performing experiments involving the function, and producing reports and videos involving this work. Next to each milestone we have given the nameof the faculty member who will lead the research of that function.
The cost of one GRA is currently $18,000 annually. We hire students half-time for the 9 months of the academic year, and full-time for the 3 summer months. We have adjusted salaries upward 5 raises.
In the first two years of the project, we propose to buy four workstations and disk space.
Maintenance fees are computed on hardware as 2.5 the year acquired, and then 5 The Computer Science Dept. charges $310 per person per month for use of the computing facilities the department provides.
Fee is escalated 5
The travel funds are being requested to allow the researchers to attend ARPA meetings, conferences in this area, and to meet with each other. Research relevant to this project is published in a variety of conferences including the CSCW, ECSCW, CHI, UIST, and Data Engineering conferences. The funds requested will be augmented with University funds of $1000 per year.