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 2010 or 2011 will be
considered for the ICAPS-12 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 (this letter must specify the
completion/filing date of the dissertation)
* two additional recommendation letters or a copy of the request for such
letters. If a request is submitted in lieu of the actual recommendation
letter, the letter itself must be received by 15 February 2012.
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:
mark.bo...@adventiumlabs.org
A word of caution: it is possible to postpone asking recommenders for their
letters until the very last minute (31 January), leaving them only two weeks to
get the letters in to the committee. This seems to us to be a high-risk
strategy. We urge nominators to request these letters as soon as possible,
since the recommenders may need to familiarize themselves with the contents of
the thesis. Nominators are responsible for ensuring that the letters of
recommendation are submitted by the final deadline. The committee will not
solicit missing letters, nor will it review incomplete nomination packets.
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. Students who did not win an award last year can be nominated again
if 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: 31 January 2012
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