Recent Announcements
Thanks
AI Access Foundation manages JAIR largely through the efforts of volunteers throughout the world. However, we occasionally have some small, but important, operating and infrastructure costs. We wanted to thank David Smith for his generous financial contributions to the organization, as well as Fetch Technologies, UCLA, CMU, and the University of Michigan for their ongoing support for JAIR's infrastructure. These gifts make it possible for JAIR to continue operating a freely-available journal.
DOIs
JAIR is in the process of registering DOIs for future (and eventually existing) articles published in the journal. We wish to acknowledge the generous support of IJCAI, Inc. for an endowment which supports our ongoing annual costs to register DOIs.
2008 Annual Report
We are pleased to present the annual report on the status of JAIR. The report covers the activities of the journal during 2007 and the first half of 2008, as well as historical data on previous years.
Best Paper Prize Announcement
The IJCAII-JAIR Best Paper Prize is awarded to an outstanding paper published in JAIR in the preceding five calendar years. The 2009 Prize Committee selected the following founding paper on CP-nets, which have become a popular language capable of representing ordinal preference relations in a compact and structured manner. The paper addresses conceptual, logical, and algorithmic aspects of CP-nets, together with useful examples and real-world applications. It does so with exceptional clarity and a systematic development of the research ideas. Not only did the paper start a whole new area of research, but it also had a large impact on preference reasoning, triggering several new and significant research directions on preference representation. The prize and accompanying cheque will be presented at IJCAI-09 in Pasadena.
2009 Prize: C. Boutilier, R. Brafman, C. Domshlak, H. Hoos, and D. Poole (2004) "CP-nets: A Tool for Representing and Reasoning with Conditional Ceteris Paribus Preference Statements", Volume 21, pages 135-191.
An Honorable Mention is given to the following paper which builds on the heuristic search approach to planning by developing two innovative, powerful, and interesting techniques: a new heuristic estimator based on the causal graph, and a novel search algorithm. The developments described in the paper have been very well received in the field, in particular due to the novel causal graph heuristic. Moreover, the new techniques are crisply formulated, are based on firm theoretical grounds, and have a practical importance as well.
2009 Honorable Mention: M. Helmert (2006) "The Fast Downward Planning System", Volume 26, pages 191-246.
