IEEE CIST 2014 Best Doctoral Paper Awards

The Winners

CIST Session:

Paper 100: HCHIRSIMEX: An extended method for domain ontology learning based on conditional mutual information. By Omar El Idrissi Esserhrouchni, Bouchra Frikh and Brahim Ouhbi, Fez and Meknes, Morocco

Paper 67: Towards a Smart Cloud Gate for Smart Devices Manel Gherari, Abdelkrim Amirat, Mourad Oussalah and Ridda Laouar LAMIS Laboratory, University of Tebessa, Algeria

IOT Session:

Paper 30: Improving Threshold Distributed Energy Efficient Clustering Algorithm for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks. Mostafa Baghouri, Saad Chakkor and A. Hajraoui. Faculty of Sciences, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan, Morocco

ANLP Session:

Paper 14: Word Processing for Arabic Language. A reappraisal of morphology induction through adaptive memory self-organisation strategies. Claudia Marzi, Ouafae Nahli and Marcello Ferro Institute for Computational Linguistics, National Research Council - ILC, CNR Pisa Italy

IMP Session:

Paper 20: 3D Face Recognition Using Facial Curves, Sparse Random Projection and Fuzzy Similarity Measure. Naouar Belghini, Soufiane Ezghari and Azeddine Zahi. FST, USMBA, Fez, Morocco

About the IEEE CIST 2014 Best Doctoral Paper Awards

To recognize the very best, of the over 150 submitted papers, outstanding technical contributions, as evidenced by the quality of papers, their presentations, and their technical excellence, IEEE CIST 2014 will award 4 best doctoral paper awards, one for the main conference and one for each of the 3 invited sessions. The award includes a certificate suitable for framing. The authors of each best paper award will be recognized at the conference gala banquet on Tuesday, the 21st of October 2014.

NOMINATION PROCESS

Five papers from each of the main conference and the three invited sessions will be nominated for the best doctoral paper award. The nominations will be made by the corresponding session chairs, and the nominated papers will be drawn from the top 10 papers in the session based on the reviews scores.

ELIGIBILITY

Any paper accepted in the main conference or in one of the invited sessions, with the exception that program committee chairs and session chairs are not eligible for a best doctoral paper award in their own session. In addition:

• The main author of the paper should be a PhD student.

• The main author of each of the five semi-finalist papers is required to attend the conference and present their paper in its corresponding session.

• A panel of judges will judge each paper on the presenting author’s effective oral presentation, and on the quality, and technical merit, of the paper itself.

SELECTION PROCESS

The panel of judges constitutes an independent best doctoral paper awards committee (with one member representing each session). It is formed to evaluate the nominated papers and vote to determine the best 4 papers (one per session) as the winners of the best doctoral paper awards. Representatives to the best paper awards committee are appointed by the conference chairs before papers are nominated for an award, and it will be ensured that no member of the best paper awards committee was being considered for a best paper award. The voting process is anonymous and the votes will be tallied and verified by the chair of the best paper awards committee and the IEEE CIST 2014 conference chairs.

Award Committee

Pr. Mohamed Chahhou (Chair)

Pr. Vitto Pirrelli

Pr. Arsalane Zarghili

Pr. Mounir Arioua

Pr. Mohamed El Far

Pr. Mohammed Alachhab

Pr. Mohammed El Mohajir