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 at eccai.org            Email: silvia at 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 at 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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