AIJ Prominent Paper Award 2012 
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The AIJ Prominent Paper Award recognizes outstanding papers published less than six years ago in the AI journal that are exceptional  in their significance and impact.  Factors influencing the decision of the award include:

- Did the paper start a new line of research? 

- Does it have a very high quality of presentation 

- Has the paper made a major theoretical advance? 

- Has it heavily influenced other researchers (whether in or outside AI?) 

- Is the paper's citation level high, particularly in recent papers in the literature? 

- Has the paper influenced applications?

A nomination may come from anyone. Posthumous awards will be considered. Nominations are due by 30 June 2012 and must be made by email the following form (in simple text as part of the body of the email, NOT as an attachment). The subject line should read “AIJ Prominent Paper Award 2012  nomination”. The email should be sent to: aij-awards2012@easychair.org

A list of all AIJ articles can be found by filling in the search fields here: 

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00043702

Alternatively, a list of AIJ papers for all years according to Google Scholar can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/aij-gscholar (use the custom date range to restrict to the years 2007-2012)



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AIJ Prominent Paper Award 2012 Nomination Form
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1) Paper Title:

2) Authors: 

3) Year (the year of publication must be 2007 or more recent):

4) It would be appreciated if DOI or a link to PDF could be provided:

5) Update on author institutions if known to be different to those on original publication:

6) Impact and significance

Give a brief statement (500 words or less) describing this paper's impact on artificial intelligence research or practice, addressing the factors listed in the call for nominations.  Evidence of the significance/impact should be provided/referenced.
 
7) 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)

8) Nominator

Nominator Name:
Relationship (if any) to authors:
Address:
Country: