2009 AI Dissertation Award

The 2009 Artificial Intelligence Dissertation Award sponsored by ECCAI, the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence has been awarded to:

Niels Landwehr

University of Potsdam, Germany

 
for his thesis:

Trading Expressivity for Efficiency in Statistical Relational Learning

 
This Award includes a certificate signed by the ECCAI Chair and 1.500 Euros (which include the travel grant for the Award ceremony).

The Selection Committee has decided to award, in addition, an honourable mention to Hector Palacios, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, for his thesis: "Translation-based approaches to Conformant Planning".

The ECCAI Dissertation Award Ceremony took place during ECAI-2010 in Lisbon, Portugal.