Two PhD studentships in "Extending XML's Linking"
                             funded by EPSRC
                      School of Computer Science & IT
                        University of Nottingham, UK


Applications are invited for two PhD studentships in the School of
Computer Science & IT at the University of Nottingham for research in the
area of "Extending XML's Linking". The studentships are funded by the
EPSRC and will provide tuition fees for UK students (approximately 2,740
pounds pa) and  living expenses linked to the national EPSRC rate
(approximately 7,050 pounds pa) for a period of three years.
Discretionary funds will also be available to cover the costs of attending
conferences etc.

The start date is October 2000, or as soon as possible thereafter, and the
deadline for applications is the 31st of August 2000.

RESEARCH TOPICS

This project is concerned with ways to improve the hypertext functionality
in distributed information systems, in particular the World Wide Web. This
will involve a number of approaches, including extending the linking parts
of the new XML document interchange standard. In particular, the
computation of links, importing of link computations and the use of
autonomous applications to compute links are features to be explored as
part of this project.

The first studentship is for research in the area of "XML's linking and
links in XML applications". There are two approaches to be explored, the
first being to investigate how to extend XML's inbuilt linking
recommendations, the second being to investigate building link
functionality into specific XML applications.

The second studentship is for research in the area of "Autonomous linking
engine". In this approach, linking functionality is achieved by bypassing
the inherent XML application mechanisms that browsers generally support,
using a plug-in approach to make the browser more powerful. It will use 
the open hypertext systems principle of providing link services separately
to the data, but in this case will implement and evaluate a more general
and powerful hypertext linking model.

INFORMATION AND APPLICATIONS

For more information please contact:

    Dr Helen Ashman
    School of Computer Science & IT
    University of Nottingham
    Jubilee Campus
    Nottingham  NG8 1BB
    
    email: [log in to unmask]
    Phone: +44 115 951 4237
    Fax:   +44 115 951 4254

The deadline for applications is the 31st of August.  Application
forms are available from:

    Postgraduate Admissions
    School of Computer Science & IT
    University of Nottingham
    Jubilee Campus
    Nottingham NG8 1BB UK

    email: [log in to unmask]
    Phone: +44 115 951 4242
    Fax:   +44 115 951 4254

or
    http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/gradschool/prospective/pgapp.html

and should be sent to Dr Helen Ashman at the above address.









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