Student Award

An excellent student paper will be selected to receive the Carl Smith Award.

The award carries a scholarship prize of 555 Euros sponsored by

 Yahoo! Research Barcelona.

and the winner is:

An Empirical Comparison of Probability Estimation Techniques for Probabilistic Rules
Jan-Nikolas Sulzmann and Johannes Furnkranz
TU Darmstadt


The procedure was:

1. The two PC Chairs and the Conference Chair identified three student papers with best reviewer rank as eligible for the award.
   
   
2. The Steering Committee Chair nominated the Vice Steering Committee Chair as the Award Committee Chair. The Award Committee Chair nominated the two PC Chairs and the Conference Chair as the Award Committee Members. Thus the Award Committee consists of four persons, who have no conflict of interest with the authors of the three nominated papers.
   
   
3. Considerations taken which lead to the decision included significance, the degree of originality - also compared to other papers of the authors - the number of co-authors and the degree of seniority as a researcher.