[PlanetKR] [Announcements] AI Journal: Call for Award Nominations

[Vesna Sabljakovic-Fritz via Announcements]

Call for Nominations

AI Journal - Classic and Prominent Paper Awards 2024

The Nominations for these awards will be open until May 24, 2024

The AI Journal is pleased to Announce Two Awards for papers published in 
the journal:

* The AIJ Prominent Paper Award

   * Recognizes outstanding papers published not more than 7 years ago in 
the AI Journal that are exceptional in their significance and impact.
   * Nominations are now solicited for papers published in AIJ between 
2017 and 2023 for the 2024 Prominent Paper Award.

* The AIJ Classic Paper Award

   * Recognizes outstanding papers published at least 15 calendar years 
ago in the AI Journal that are exceptional in their significance and 
impact.
   * Nominations are now solicited for papers published in AIJ between 
1970 and 2008 for the 2024 Classic Paper Award.


Here is the list of [All Previous Award 
Winners|https://aij.ijcai.org/aij-awards-list-of-previous-winners].


Evaluation Criteria

Factors influencing the decision of the award include:

* Did the paper start a significant new line of research?
* Has the paper made a major theoretical advance?
* Has it heavily influenced other researchers (whether in or outside 
AI?)
* Has the paper influenced applications?


Nomination Form

Nominations should be made through the following [Google 
Form|https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdl48OVDuxDRF0MG49qYA8UEaFeJ6WY-VT-FqLZLajwtFQihA/viewform] 
which contains the following fields:

- Paper Title
- Authors
- Category: either Classic Paper Award (published on or before 2008 in 
the AI Journal), or Prominent Paper Award (published between 2017 and 
2023 in the AI Journal)
- Year
- DOI or PDF link
- Update on author institutions if known to be different to those on 
original publication
- Impact and Significance (A brief statement (500 words or fewer) 
describing this paper’s impact on artificial intelligence research or 
practice, addressing the evaluation criteria listed above.
Evidence of the significance/impact should be provided/referenced.)
- Proposed Citation (To appear on the award certificate — citation 
should begin “For outstanding contributions to …” followed by a phrase 
of not more than 20 carefully edited words that reflect the reasons for 
the proposed award)
- Nominator Name
- Relationship (if any) to authors
- Nominator's Address
- Nominator's Country


Nomination Submission

Nominations are welcome until May 24, 2024.

A nomination may come from anyone. Posthumous awards will be considered. 
All papers can be found online on the [Elsevier 
webpage|https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/artificial-intelligence/issues]. 
Award winners are expected to receive their award in person at the IJCAI 
2024 opening ceremony.

-- 
Vesna Sabljakovic-Fritz
IJCAI Executive Director and Secretary

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