Call for Nominations

The 2009 Outstanding Dissertation Award
SET Section of the American Accounting Association

The Section periodically (usually annually) awards the SET Outstanding Dissertation Award. The award is to recognize outstanding dissertations in the fields of artificial intelligence and/or emerging technologies.

For the purposes of this award:

• Artificial intelligence includes, but is not limited to, the sub-fields of knowledge-based systems, neural networks, and heuristic problem solving, expert systems, case-based reasoning, machine learning, natural language processing, intelligent databases, intelligent agents, and intelligent devices.
• Emerging technologies include (among others) information system security, image processing, communications technologies, wireless connectivity, the Internet, World Wide Web, electronic commerce, workflow technology, private networks (local, wide, municipal, intranets), EDI, XBRL, XML, data mining, group technologies, continuous assurance services, voice recognition, and interactive multimedia.

The winner of SET Outstanding Dissertation Award will be presented with a plaque at the Annual SET Section Business meeting.

An abstract of the winning dissertation will be published in the SET Newsletter and from the launch of the new section website in 2006, will also be available online from these pages (see below).

An entry may be nominated either by the student who wrote the dissertation or by one or more members of their dissertation committee.

The entry cannot be simultaneously submitted for similar awards by other Sections of the AAA.

Submission requirements:

• Dissertation topic dealing with artificial intelligence and/or emerging technologies
• Dissertation completed between January 1 and December 31 of the year preceding the award
• Letter signed by the dissertation chairperson stating that the dissertation was completed and accepted by the degree granting institution during the above period
• A nominating letter stating why the dissertation deserves special recognition
• An extended abstract of the dissertation (in PDF format). The extended abstract should focus on the aim, motivation, and significance of the research; and include a summary of the methodology, statistical analysis (as appropriate), results, limitations, and future research questions.
• The dissertation (in PDF format)

Nominations deadline: March 31, 2009

Please submit (via e-mail) all materials to:

John J. Cheh
George W. Daverio School of Accountancy
College of Business Administration
The University of Akron
259 South Broadway
Akron, OH 44325-4802
Phone: 330-972-6091
E-mail: cheh@uakron.edu

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