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, 500 USD and a complimentary registration to the ICAPS-09 conference.

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.

More information on the ICAPS conference series can be found at the following URL: www.icaps-conference.org.

Submission deadline: April 15th, 2009

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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, 500 USD and complimentary registrations to the ICAPS-09 conference.

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 15th, 2009.