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. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%