[DL] Research position KRDB - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

[Diego Calvanese]

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION MEETS DATABASES (KRDB) RESEARCH CENTRE
FACULTY OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN-BOLZANO
PROJECT TONES (IST-007603)
Salary: Euro 18,684 to 33,384 p.a.

Applications are invited for a Research Associate to join the Knowledge
Representation Meets Databases (KRDB) Research Centre at the Faculty of
Computer Science - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.  The post is 
available
from 1 October 2005, or as soon as possible thereafter, for a period of 
three
years.  The KRDB Research Centre was founded in 2002, and it comprises 
13
researchers (including three PhD students). The centre aims at being an
international centre of excellence in basic and applied research on KRDB
technologies and at proposing to selected enterprises innovative ideas 
and
technologies based on the developed research.  It is involved in two 
European
projects and three European Networks of Excellence, and is a member of 
the
Advisory Committee of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).  Members of 
the
centre have developed the foundational results underlying reasoning and
computational complexity for state of the art ontology languages.  The 
current
research focus is on the development of tools applying relational 
database
technology to reasoning over data intensive ontologies, on data 
management
techniques in peer-to-peer systems, on data integration, and on query
processing for semi-structured data.

The available post is funded by the European Union 6th Framework within 
the
IST-007603 TONES project (which is a collaboration with research 
institutions
in Rome, Manchester, Dresden, and Hamburg).  The project aims at 
enhancing and
developing novel reasoning services for ontology design, maintenance, 
usage,
and interoperation.  The focus is, on the one hand on the study of novel
techniques integrating ontology reasoning with efficient data 
management, that
allow for scalability of ontology management to large amounts of data, 
and on
the other hand on the extension of Description Logics, to improve the 
usability
of reasoning services for ontology management.

Given the aims of the project, we are seeking candidates with interests 
or
capabilities in logics (preferably in description or modal logics), 
automated
reasoning, and/or databases.  Successful applicants should possess a 
good first
degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related 
discipline, and
have at least some relevant postgraduate experience, preferably a PhD.

Please direct informal enquires to:
Prof. Diego Calvanese
email: calvanese at inf.unibz.it

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Diego Calvanese
Faculty of Computer Science         e-mail: calvanese at inf.unibz.it
Free University of Bolzano/Bozen    phone: +39-0471 016 160
Piazza Domenicani 3,                fax:   +39-0471 016 009
I-39100 Bolzano-Bozen BZ, Italy     http://www.inf.unibz.it/~calvanese/