ANN: ECCAI AI Dissertation Award

From: Ulrich Furbach (uli_at_uni-koblenz.de)
Date: 11/03/03 

Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 21:33:15 GMT

                              2003 ECCAI

              ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DISSERTATION AWARD

             http://www.eccai.org/diss-award/2003.shtml

Nominations are invited for the 2003 AI Dissertation Award sponsored
by ECCAI, the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial
Intelligence.

This Award includes a certificate signed by the ECCAI Chair and 1.500
Euros (which includes the travel grant for the Award ceremony).

Eligible doctoral dissertations are those defended after December 1,
2002 in the general area of Artificial Intelligence. The dissertation
must have been defended at an European university and the author must
be a personal member of an ECCAI member society. Multiple submissions
of the same doctoral dissertation to other dissertation award
activities of other societies are excluded.

To be considered, a dissertation must be nominated by the thesis
supervisor, who must submit the following items:

    - three copies of the dissertation or a link to a WWW version of
    the thesis,

    - five copies of an extended abstract (3 to 5 pages) in English,

    - if the thesis was not written in English the nomination must
    include an English paper describing the core ideas of the thesis
    that has been submitted for publication in an international journal
    or a prestigious conference. The nominee must be the first author
    of this paper.

    - nomination letters from two referees selected by the dissertation
    supervisor, supporting the submission and stating their assessment
    of why the thesis should win the award.

Submissions and Requests should be sent to:

            Ulrich Furbach
            University Koblenz-Landau
            AI Research Group
            Universitaetstr. 1
            D-56070 Koblenz, Germany
            Voice: +49 261 287 27 28
            Fax: +49 261 287 100 2728
            Email: uli@furbach.de
            Url: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~uli/

The deadline for receipt of submissions is January 31, 2004.

The Award will be presented during ECAI 2004 in Valencia, Spain
(23-27 August 2004).

[ comp.ai is moderated. To submit, just post and be patient, or if ]
[ that fails mail your article to <comp-ai@moderators.isc.org>, and ]
[ ask your news administrator to fix the problems with your system. ]