[Om-announce] CAV Award: Call for Nominations

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		20th International Conference on
		Computer Aided Verification (CAV)
                         CAV 2008
            http://www.princeton.edu/cav2008

                       July 7 - 14, 2008
                        Princeton, USA

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	CAV Award Call for Nominations
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CAV Award
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An annual award, called the CAV Award, has been established

       "For a specific fundamental contribution
       or a series of outstanding contributions
       to the field of Computer-Aided Verification."

The cited contribution(s) must have been made not more recently than
five years ago and not over twenty years ago.  In addition, the
contribution(s) should not yet have received recognition via a major
award, such as the ACM Turing or Kanellakis Awards. (The nominee may
have received such an award for other contributions.)

The award of $10,000 will be granted to an individual or a group of
individuals chosen by the Award Committee from a list of nominations.

The Award Committee may choose to make no award in a given year.

The CAV Award will be presented in an award ceremony at the
Computer-Aided Verification Conference and a citation will be published
in a journal of record (currently, Formal Methods in System Design).

Anyone, with the exception of members of the Award Committee, is
eligible to receive the Award.

Call for Nominations for the CAV Award
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Anyone can submit a nomination. The Award Committee can originate a
nomination.

A nomination must state clearly the contribution(s), explain why the
contribution is fundamental or the series of contributions is
outstanding, and be accompanied by supporting letters and other evidence
of worthiness.  Nominations should include a proposed citation (up to 25
words), a succinct (100-250 words) description of the contribution(s),
and a detailed statement to justify the nomination.

The 2008 CAV Award Committee consists of Tom Henzinger (Chair), Randy
Bryant, Orna Grumberg and Moshe Vardi.

For the CAV Award in 2008, please send nominations for the 2008 CAV
Award to the CAV Award Committee Chair:

	Tom Henzinger	tah (at) epfl.ch

Nominations must be received by January 28, 2008.

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		CAV Award Process
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Here is a description of the full process governing the administration
of the CAV Award. This will be published in the Journal of Record in
which the citation for the first CAV Award is given.
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CAV Award
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An annual award, called the CAV Award, has been established

	"For a specific fundamental contribution or a series
	of outstanding contributions to the field of Computer-
	Aided Verification."

The cited contribution(s) must have been made not more recently than
five years ago and not over twenty years ago. In addition, the
contribution(s) should not yet have received recognition via a major
award, such as the ACM Turing or Kanellakis Awards. (The nominee may
have received such an award for other contributions.)

The award of $10,000 will be granted to an individual or group of
individuals chosen by the Award Committee from a list of nominations.
The Award Committee will select the nomination that most compellingly
demonstrates a specific fundamental contribution or a series of
outstanding contributions to the field of Computer Aided Verification,
evidenced by its influence over the last five to twenty years, and
ratified by a majority of the Award Committee. If the Award Committee
does not so ratify any nomination, then no award shall be made in the
given year.

The CAV Award shall be presented in an award ceremony at the
Computer-Aided Verification Conference.

The Award Committee will provide a detailed citation that explains the
basis of the award. This citation will be published together with
selected papers from the conference in a forthcoming Special Issue of a
Journal of Record. The present Journal of Record is the Springer journal
Formal Methods in System Design.

The first CAV Award will be awarded in 2008.

Anyone, with the exception of members of the Award Committee, is
eligible to receive the Award.


NOMINATIONS 
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Anyone can submit a nomination. The Award Committee can originate a
nomination.

A nomination must state clearly the contribution(s), explain why the
contribution is fundamental or the series of contributions is
outstanding, and be accompanied by supporting letters and other evidence
of worthiness.  Nominations should include a proposed citation (up to 25
words), a succinct (100-250 words) description of the contribution(s),
and a detailed statement to justify the nomination.

A call for nominations will be part of the CAV call for papers, with the
same deadline as for papers.

Nominations shall be sent to the Award Committee Chair.


AWARD COMMITTEE 
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The Award Committee consists of four individuals, each of whom shall
have been an author of a paper accepted by CAV within the previous five
years. The members of the CAV Steering Committee are not eligible to
serve on the Award Committee.

Two members of the Award Committee shall hold positions in the United
States and two shall hold non-U.S. positions.

The four positions on the Award Committee are referred to as p_1, p_2,
p_3 and p_4. The Steering Committee has appointed the first Award
Committee to the respective positions.

The tenure of a member in position p_i will be i years.
In respective subsequent years, the member in position p_1 will retire,
the member in position p_i (i>1) will assume position p_{i-1}, and the
current Award Committee will select a member to fill position p_4 in the
following year, by a majority vote of the current Award Committee.

The retiring member in position p_1 will not be selected for position
p_4 in the following year, in order to assure turn-over in the Award
Committee.

The member in position p_1 will serve as Chair of the Award Committee,
with the responsibility of receiving nominations, distributing them to
the other members of the Award Committee, and overseeing the selection
processes for the Award and new member.

The Award Committee will take into account all individuals who have
contributed to an awarded accomplishment, as well as independent
discoveries of an awarded accomplishment, and assure that all
individuals are treated fairly.

Awards will be for contributions not already honored by another major
award.


RIGHTS OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE 
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In the event of an unanticipated vacancy of a sitting Award Committee,
the Steering Committee will assign someone to fill the vacated position.

Any circumstances that are unaccounted for through the above process
will be resolved by the Steering Committee. The Steering Committee
reserves the right to change the amount of the award, change the Journal
of Record for citations or dissolve the Award Committee and cancel the
CAV Award at any time.

The Steering Committee reserves the right to veto the selection by the
Award Committee of a member for position p_4, in which case the Award
Committee will select someone else.

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