Nominations
Call for Nominations for the "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 (i.e, up to 2002 for this year's award).
The recipients of the 2012 award will receive a certificate, 500 USD and one complimentary registration to the ICAPS-2012 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,
- either a URL from which the paper can be retrieved or a copy of the paper itself. Please contact the committee if this last requirement causes any difficulties.
Nominations should be submitted in electronic form to the ICAPS Award Committee chair: mark.boddy@adventiumlabs.com
Submission deadline: 15 January 2012
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.boddy@adventiumlabs.com
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