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Research Fellow
Project Title: Principled Application of Learning Classifier Systems to
Large-Scale Challenging Datasets (LCSxLCD)
University of Nottingham - School of Computer Science
Deadline for application: March 31st, 2010
Salary: 27,319 per annum
Project duration: 15 months
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Applications are invited for the above EPSRC funded post to work on the
project "Principled Application of Learning Classifier Systems to
Large-Scale Challenging Datasets (LCSxLCD)".
Learning Classifier Systems (LCS) are robust machine learning techniques
very suitable for data mining and knowledge discovery. In recent years,
there has been important research effort in advanced representations,
search mechanisms, theoretical analysis, etc. The goal of this project
is to study the general applicability of LCS to large-scale challenging
data mining tasks.
The project involves
1) the development of theoretical models for the performance of LCS when
applied to large volumes of data that can inform us of when and why LCS
methods are successful and also when do LCS fail and
2) proposal of new LCS methods with improved performacen and robustness
based on the insight gained from these models .
The person appointed will be based in the Automated Scheduling,
Optimisation & Planning (ASAP) Group, which is one of four main research
groups within the School of Computer Science at Nottingham. The School
was ranked 8th in UK in the 2008 RAE. ASAP has been carrying out
innovative research into the development and investigation of decision
support, search methodologies and machine learning for a wide and
diverse range of real world problem environments for the last 10 years.
The group comprises 12 members of academic staff, 16 researchers, 51 PhD
students and three administrators. The project also includes budget for
a two-month visit for the candidate to the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Candidates should have a PhD in computer science and experience in
evolutionary algorithms, learning classifier systems and/or machine
learning. Past experience in the development of theoretical models will
be an advantage together with evidence of top quality research in the
form of published papers and/or software. The successful candidate will
be able to access all the resources of the rich career development
programme of the University of Nottingham.
Salary will be 27,319 per annum. This post is available from June 2010
and will be offered on a fixed-term contract for period of 15 months.
Informal enquiries may be addressed to Dr J Bacardit, tel: 0115 846
7044, Email: [log in to unmask] Please note that
applications sent directly to this Email address will not be accepted.
To apply on-line please access: http://jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/SCI792.
Please quote ref. SCI/792. Closing date: 31 March 2010.
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