For their high quality inovative research, WISE received several
(international) awards. Below you find a selection of the most
relavant ones:
- LRC Best Localisation Scholar Award 2005:
WISE member Abdalghani Mushtaha
won the 2005 international “LRC Best Localisation Scholar
Award” for his phd research proposal. The price is granted
once a year to a phd student starting in the field of locatization,
based on the quality of his phd research proposal, and the track
record of ongoing research of the student. The price is sponsored
by IBM and is awarded by the well-known “Localisation
Research Centre” (LRC) van de Universiteit van Limerick,
Ierland. More information on the award can be found on the
LRC website (awards).
- Baudouin Elleboudt Award 2005: WISE student
Haithem Mansouri is one of four laureate of the Baudouin Ellboudt
award. It is the successor of the NIT-ITP price, that rewards
four computer science master thesis from Belgian universities
and high school. The title of his thesis is “Using Semantic
Descriptions for Building and Querying Virtual Environment”,
and can be found at our past
thesis section of WISE. After completing his master thesis,
Haithem joined the WISE research team to make a phd, while continuing
his professional activities.
- Best paper nomination at ISWC 2005: the paper
"Ontology Change Detection using a Version Log", by
WISE members Peter Plessers
and Olga De Troyer, was nominated
for the best paper award at the 4th International Semantic Web
Conference. This paper can be downloaded at our publication
section.