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2000 ECCAI ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DISSERTATION AWARD

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

EXTENDED Deadline: January 31, 2001
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Nominations are invited for the 2000 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, 1999
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 and Requests should be sent to:

Silvia Miksch
Vienna University of Technology
Institute of Software Technology
Favoritenstraße 9-11/188
A-1040 Vienna, Austria, Europe
Email: silvia@ifs.tuwien.ac.at
Url: http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia



The EXTENDED deadline for receipt of submissions is January 31, 2001.
The Award will be presented during ACAI 2001 in Prague (July 2-13, 2001).


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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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