UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTING SCIENCE
PhD STUDENTSHIPS
PhD studentships are available in the following areas:
** Computational Interpretation of Aerial Photographs
** Generating Summaries of Time-Series Data
** Normative Agents for Electronic Commerice
** Constraints in Configuration
** any research area (EPSRC quota studentship)
COMPUTATIONAL INTERPRETATION OF AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS
(Dr Roly Lishman)
The Computing Science department, in co-operation with the Macaulay Land Use
Research Institute, is looking for a PhD student to work on the computational
interpretation of aerial photographs. The studentship is part of the SYMOLAC
land cover monitoring project. One of its purposes is to update the Land
Cover
of Scotland 1988 survey, which shows the land class of polygons covering all
of Scotland. SYMOLAC is being equipped to deal with images of the same
territory taken at different times; part of its task is to interpret changes
that have occurred, such as trees being felled or hill farms reverting to
ungrazed grass.
For full details, see http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~jrl/PhD.html
GENERATING SUMMARIES OF TIME-SERIES DATA
(Dr Ehud Reiter & Dr Jim Hunter)
We are looking for a research (PhD) student to join a new EPSRC-funded
project
on producing English summary descriptions of time-series data sets. The
project
involves research in both natural-language generation (lexical choice, user
models, aggregation, content selection) and in time-series analysis
(abstraction
over densely sampled data, horizontal inference, context models). The student
will work with a post-doctoral Research Fellow and with collaborators from
two
companies and Stanford University.
For full details, see http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~ereiter/tsjob.html
NORMATIVE AGENTS FOR ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
(Dr Tim Norman)
We are looking for a research (PhD) student to investigate agent-mediated
electronic commerce. This will involve research in both inter-agent
negotiation
(argumentation, agent communication languages) and normative systems
specification (modelling the rights, privileges and obligations of agents
in the
context of a multi-agent system). The research will be pursued with a view to
its application to electronic commerce and/or work-flow management. The
student
will work primarily with Tim Norman, but also in the context of existing
collaborative research within the department and with academics in other
Universities.
For full details, see http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~tnorman/vacancy.html
CONSTRAINTS IN CONFIGURATION
(Dr Ken Brown & Dr Alun Preece)
We are looking for a research (PhD) student to join an anticipated
EPSRC-funded
project on the use of constraints in configuration. The project is in
collaboration with Compaq, and offers the opportunity of substantial contact
with industry. The research may be in one of a number of topics, including
new
constraint propagation methods, representation of constraints and ontologies,
or problem reformulation.
For full details, see http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/vacancies/consship.html
PhD STUDENTSHIPS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE IN ALL DEPARTMENTAL RESEARCH TOPICS:
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Automatic Text & Graphics Generation
Bioinformatics
Computer Vision & Remote Sensing
Constraints and Optimisation
Cooperative Knowledge Acquisition & Refinement Systems
Digital Libraries
High Quality Knowledge-Based Systems
Intelligent Information Integration
Intelligent Software Agents
Machine Discovery
Model-Based Representation & Reasoning
For futher details, see http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/vacancies/
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