[agents] Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation award - 2018

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Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation award - 2018


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Nominations are invited for the 2018 Victor Lesser Distinguished

Dissertation Award sponsored by IFAAMAS, the International Foundation for

Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (http://www.ifaamas.org) and to be

presented at AAMAS-2019 (http://aamas2019.encs.concordia.ca).


Eligible doctoral dissertations are those defended between January 1, 2018

and December 31, 2018 in the area of Autonomous Agents or Multiagent

Systems.


This award includes a certificate and a 1500EUR payment.


The selection of the dissertation will be based on the originality,

significance, and impact of the work. Evidence of such impact include

publications at highly selective conferences and journals in the field, with

due importance given to the AAMAS conference series and JAAMAS. Research

output that resulted primarily from the student's initiative will be

considered more favorably. The selection committee will be the final

arbiter in the decision process. The selection committee might decide to

consult external assessors and reserves the right to not award the prize if

the nominations do not meet the expected quality level.


The dissertation must be nominated by the thesis supervisor and must be

supported by the following documents (the documents must be placed on a web

page and only a link to this page e-mailed to Nicola Gatti, nicola.gatti at polimi.it,

on or before February 26, 2019):


1. A PDF file of the dissertation. If the dissertation is not written in

English, the nomination must include a substantial manuscript in English,

with the nominee as the first author, published in a journal or a

prestigious conference.


2. A list of citations to published papers based primarily on this

dissertation with links to corresponding PDF files.


3. A recommendation from the dissertation supervisor, on departmental

letterhead, nominating the dissertation for the IFAAMAS-18 Victor Lesser

Distinguished Dissertation Award. The recommendation should argue the merit

of the dissertation and highlight, where relevant, how the work resulted

from the initiative of the student. This document, not to exceed 500 words,

should also certify the eligibility of the PhD by asserting that the PhD

was defended in calendar year 2018.


4. The names, email addresses, and affiliations of at most three

referees, familiar with the research of the candidate and experts in the

pertinent research area, who will directly email their recommendations for

the candidate to the chair of the selection committee. It is the

responsibility of the dissertation supervisor to contact the referees and

ensure that the letters are submitted by the deadline. A reference letter

should be no more than 500 words in length and should be on official

letterhead, signed and emailed as scanned PDF file.



NOTE: IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE DISSERTATION SUPERVISOR TO

CONTACT THE REFEREES AND ENSURE THAT LETTERS (max 500 words, signed,

and on letterhead) ARE SUBMITTED BY THE DEADLINE.


Though the nomination is to be submitted by the nominee's dissertation

supervisor, it is required that the nominee has consented that the

dissertation be considered for this award and, if selected for the award,

commits to attend the AAMAS-2019 conference, where she/he will receive the

award, and will give an hour-long presentation in a special session of the

conference on the work contained in the dissertation. The cost of attending

the conference is not covered by the award.