2017 EurAI Dissertation Award
The 2017 Artificial Intelligence Dissertation Award sponsored by EurAI, the European Artificial Intelligence Association has been awarded to:
Florian Pommerening
University of Basel, Switzerland
for his thesis:
New Perspectives on Cost Partitioning for Optimal Classical Planning
under the supervision of Malte Helmert (University of Basel, Switzerland).
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, honourable mentions to both Muhannad Alomari, University of Leeds, for his thesis "Joint Perceptual Learning and Natural Language Acquisition for Autonomous Robots" and to Thomas Linsbichler, TU Wien, Austria, for his thesis "Advances in Abstract Argumentation – Expressiveness and Dynamics".
The EurAI Dissertation Award Presentation took place on July 19th, 2018, at IJCAI-ECAI 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden.
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, honourable mentions to both Muhannad Alomari, University of Leeds, for his thesis "Joint Perceptual Learning and Natural Language Acquisition for Autonomous Robots" and to Thomas Linsbichler, TU Wien, Austria, for his thesis "Advances in Abstract Argumentation – Expressiveness and Dynamics".
The EurAI Dissertation Award Presentation took place on July 19th, 2018, at IJCAI-ECAI 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden.