ICAPS Best Dissertation Award

Call for Nomination
The ICAPS Executive Council has established a new
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 ICAPS conferences.
PhD dissertations that were completed and filed in 2005 or 2006 may be considered for the next ICAPS07 award.
The recipient of the 2007 award will receive a certificate, 500 US$ and a complementary registration to the ICAPS07 conference.
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,
• two additional recommendation letters, or a copy of the request for such letters.

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, Malik Ghallab.

Important Dates

• Submission: January 31, 2007.
• Decision notification: June 1, 2007