Call for Nominations "ICAPS Best Dissertation Award"
This award honors an outstanding Ph.D. dissertation in any
area of automated planning and scheduling. It will be given
during the ICAPS conference.
PhD dissertations that were completed and filed in 2007 or
2008 will be considered for the ICAPS-09 Best Dissertation
Award. The recipient will receive a certificate and 500 USD.
The award committee is requesting nominations of candidate PhDs.
The nomination material should include the following :
- a CV of the candidate with a complete list of publications,
- a copy of the dissertation,
- a nomination letter by the PhD advisor,
- two additional recommendation letters or a copy of the request for such letters.
Nominations should be submitted in electronic form
(preferably as a single PDF file or the URL of such a file)
to the ICAPS Award Committee chair: skoenig AT usc.edu.
The dissertation should preferably be written in English. However, we accept dissertations not written in English if they are submitted together with the following documents that must be written in English: an extended abstract of the dissertation, a series of papers that cover the key results of the dissertation and a document that describes the mapping from the papers to the chapters of the dissertation. Student who did not win an award last year can be nominated again in case they are still eligible this year.
More information on the ICAPS conference series can be found
at the following URL: www.icaps-conference.org.
Submission deadline: April 30th, 2009
Call for Nominations "ICAPS Influential Paper Award"
This award honors the authors of a significant and
influential paper in any area of automated planning and
scheduling. It will be given during the ICAPS conference.
Papers that qualify for the award are those published in one
of the ICAPS family of conferences (ICAPS, ECP, EWSP, AIPS)
at least 10 years before the year of the current conference
(that is up to 1999 for the next ICAPS).
The recipients of the 2009 award will receive a certificate and
500 USD.
The award committee is requesting nominations of candidate
papers.
The nomination material should include:
- the reference of the nominated paper,
- the reasons in favor of the nomination.
Nominations should be submitted in electronic form to the
ICAPS Award Committee chair: skoenig AT usc.edu.
More information on the ICAPS conference series can be found
at the following URL: www.icaps-conference.org.
Submission deadline: April 30th, 2009.
