AIJ Awards

Here is the list of All Previous Award Winners.

AI Journal – Classic and Prominent Paper Awards 2024

The Nominations for these awards will be open until May 24, 2024.

The AI Journal is pleased to Announce Two Awards for papers published in the journal:

  • The AIJ Prominent Paper Award
    • Recognizes outstanding papers published not more than 7 years ago in the AI Journal that are exceptional in their significance and impact.
    • Nominations are now solicited for papers published in AIJ between 2017 and 2023 for the 2024 Prominent Paper Award.
  • The AIJ Classic Paper Award
    • Recognizes outstanding papers published at least 15 calendar years ago in the AI Journal that are exceptional in their significance and impact.
    • Nominations are now solicited for papers published in AIJ between 1970 and 2008 for the 2024 Classic Paper Award.

Evaluation Criteria

Factors influencing the decision of the award include:

  • Did the paper start a significant new line of research?
  • Has the paper made a major theoretical advance?
  • Has it heavily influenced other researchers (whether in or outside AI?)
  • Has the paper influenced applications?

Nomination Form

Nominations should be made through this form which contains the following fields:

  1. Paper Title
  2. Authors
  3. Category:
    Classic Paper Award: the year of publication must be between 1970 and 2008
    Prominent Paper Award: the year of publication must be between 2017 and 2023
  4. Year
  5. DOI or PDF link
  6. Update on author institutions if known to be different to those on original publication
  7. Impact and Significance:
    Give a brief statement (500 words or fewer) describing this paper’s impact on artificial intelligence research or practice, addressing the evaluation criteria listed above. Evidence of the significance/impact should be provided/referenced.
  8. Proposed Citation (to appear on the award certificate — citation should begin “For outstanding contributions to …” followed by a phrase of not more than 20 carefully edited words that reflect the reasons for the proposed award)
  9. Nominator:
    Nominator Name
    Relationship (if any) to authors
    Nominator’s Address
    Nominator’s Country

Nomination Submission

Nominations are welcome until May 24 2024.
Submit your nominations using this form.

A nomination may come from anyone. Posthumous awards will be considered. All papers can be found online on the Elsevier webpage. Award winners are expected to receive their award in person at the IJCAI 2024 opening ceremony.