DM: 1999 ECCAI ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DISSERTATION AWARD

[Silvia Miksch]

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1999 ECCAI ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DISSERTATION AWARD


http://www.eccai.org/dissertation.html

deadline: December 1, 1999
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Nominations are invited for the 1999 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 include the travel grant for the Award ceremony).

Eligible doctoral dissertations are those defended after December 1, 
1998 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. 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 should be sent to the ECCAI  Requests for further 
information 
secretariat:                             should be sent to:
              Sigrid Herzog
  German Research Center for Artificial              Silvia Miksch
         Intelligence, DFKI GmbH            Vienna University of 
                                            Technology
    Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße / Geb. 57     Institute of Software 
                                            Technology
              Postfach 20 80                      Resselgasse 3/E188
      D-67608 Kaiserslautern, Germany            A-1040 Vienna, 
                                               Austria
       Voice: +49-631-205 3213-3214             Voice: 
                                           +43-1-58801-18824
          Fax: +49-631-205 3210                 Fax:  
                                          +43-1-58801-18899
        Email: siherzog@eccai.org            Email: 
                                      silvia@ifs.tuwien.ac.at
                   Url:                                   Url:

http://www.eccai.org/chairsecretary.html 
http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia/


The deadline for receipt of submissions is December 1, 1999. The 
Award will be presented during the ECAI 2000 conference in Berlin.




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Silvia Miksch                            

Vienna University of Technology     
Department of Computer Science
Institute of Software Technology (IFS)               
Favoritenstrasse 9-11 / 188                   
A-1040 Vienna, Austria, Europe           

email:  silvia@ifs.tuwien.ac.at
url:            http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia             
phone:  +43-1-58801-18824
phone-sec:  +43-1-58801-18801           
fax:    +43-1-58801-18899 

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