IEEE/RSJ 2008 International Conference   on Intelligent Robots and Systems
IEEE/RSJ 2008 International Conference
on Intelligent RObots and Systems
                   September, 22-26, 2008, Nice, France

Composition of the Best Paper Award Committee

  • Pierre Bessiere, Inria-Rhone-Alpes, Grenoble, France
  • Wolfram Burgard, Institut für Informatik, Freiburg, Germany
  • Thomas Henderson, University of Utah, Salt Lake City US
  • Yoshi Nakamura, Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan
  • Patrick Rives, Inria-Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée, Sophia Antipolis, France
  • Claude Samson, Inria-Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée, Sophia Antipolis, France
  • Alex Zelinsky, CSIRO ICT, Australia

Rules for the Best Paper Award

The Award Committee will establish a rating of the written version paper with regard to the following criteria:

  • originality
  • theoretical depth
  • prospective potential
  • long term view
  • experimentation
  • successful transfer to industry
  • educative contribution
  • is the author a young researcher?
For the final decision, the presentation of the paper at the Conference is also of importance, applying the following aspects:
  • clearness of the presentation
  • organisation of the presentation
  • well-founded knowledge
ending up in a rating of the presentation of the paper.

The final assessment of the paper is then composed as follows:

  • written part: 70%
  • presentation: 30%
Then an Award Committee meeting will be organized to decide the winners before the IROS 2008 Awards Ceremony.