larkc open phd positions

December 19, 2007

Position as PhD-Researcher in EU FP7
project LarKC
STI Innsbruck is one of the key players in the area of semantic technologies with
excellent ties to other relevant public and corporate research institutions worldwide.
We offer
• The stimulating environment of a leading research group in the fields of Semantic
Web, Semantic Web Services and formal languages and reasoning.
• Long-term collaboration to well-known academic institutions and major companies
around the world.
• A multicultural working place with state-of-the-art infrastructure and resources
including funding for attending international conferences, PhD symposia, summer
schools, etc.
We seek
• A PhD researcher with strong background in Computer Science and focused
research interest and expertise in at least one of the following areas: reasoning,
logic programming, probabilistic reasoning, formal languages, information theory,
machine learning, game theory.
• Willingness to work in the EU FP7 project LarKC.
Current Semantic Web reasoning systems do
not scale to the requirements of their hottest
applications, such as analyzing data from
millions of mobile devices, dealing with
terabytes of scientific data, and content
management in enterprises with thousands of
knowledge workers.
The Large Knowledge Collider (LarKC, for
short, pronounced “lark”), a platform for
massive distributed incomplete reasoning
will remove these scalability barriers. This will
be achieved by:
• Enriching the current logic-based
Semantic Web reasoning methods
with methods from information retrieval,
machine learning, information theory,
databases, and probabilistic reasoning,
• Employing cognitively inspired
approaches and techniques such as
spreading activation, focus of attention,
reinforcement, habituation, relevance
reasoning, and bounded rationality.
• Building a distributed reasoning
platform and realizing it both on a
high-performance computing cluster
and via “computing at home”.
The project consortium is an
interdisciplinary team of engineers and
researchers in Computing Science, Web
Science and Cognitive Science, well qualified to
realize this ambitious vision. The Large
Knowledge Collider will be an open
architecture. Researchers and practitioners
from outside the consortium will be encouraged
to develop and plug in their own components to
drive parts of the system. This will make the
Large Knowledge Collider a generic platform,
and not just a single reasoning engine.
The project will run for 42 months starting in
April 2008.
For further information regarding our organization, research and projects, please see
http://www.sti-innsbruck.at.
We kindly invite you to submit your application to hr.at@deri.at. Please include a
current resume, a list of publications (if applicable), and digital versions of your most
relevant works (such as graduation thesis or latest publications).

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