The new publication style that ETAI represents has been received very well and been given good publicity, eg. through an article in the the journal Nature in January. A new web server, the ETAI Junction, has been introduced. Most of the work with ETAI is presently funded by national Swedish funding agencies. The submissions for the 1998 AI Dissertation Award from the 1st of december 1998 is examined. Silvia Miksch takes on the duty to arrange a review process for the applications for the Dissertation Award.
Decision is to be taken by email voting based upon the review result.
The winner is requested to give a half hour talk on his work. The ceremony is tentatively planned to Wednesday the 4th of August after the morning session. All fellows will be given a certificate. A draft of an agreement between ECAI and IOS Press to print the proceedings for ECAI conferences starting with ECAI-2000 was discussed. The contract covers initially 3 biannual conferences.