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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.2in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
.1in;margin-left:0in'><a name=22></a><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;
color:#A5001C'>PhD student in EU projects PeerAssist and PlanetData <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:9.6pt;margin-bottom:
1.8pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt'>The
<b>Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck</b> (<a
href="http://www.sti-innsbruck.at/" target="_blank"><b><span style='color:#444444'>http://www.sti-innsbruck.at</span></b></a>),
formerly known as <b>DERI Innsbruck</b>, was founded in 2002 and has
developed into a challenging and dynamic research institute of approximately 40
people. <b>STI Innsbruck</b> collaborates with an international network of
institutes in Asia, Europe and the USA, as well as with global industrial partners.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:9.6pt;margin-bottom:
1.8pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt'>Our
major objective is to establish Semantic technologies as a core pillar of
modern Computer Science, thereby providing interoperability and scalability for
Semantically Enabled Service Orientated Architectures. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:9.6pt;margin-bottom:
1.8pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt'>STI
Innsbruck is currently seeking candidates for the position of a PhD student.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:9.6pt;margin-bottom:
1.8pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:
11.0pt'>We offer:</span></b><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-align:justify;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3;background:white'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>The stimulating environment of a
leading research institute in the fields of Semantic Web, Semantic Web
Services, Service-Oriented Architectures and formal languages and
reasoning.</span><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-align:justify;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3;background:white'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Long-term collaboration to well-known
academic institutions and major companies around the world.</span><span
lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-align:justify;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3;background:white'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>A multicultural working place with
state-of-the-art infrastructure and resources including funding for
attending international conferences, PhD symposia, summer schools, etc.</span><span
lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:9.6pt;margin-bottom:
1.8pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:
11.0pt'> We expect:</span></b><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4;background:white'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>A strong background in Computer
Science or Information Technologies and focused research interest and
expertise in at least one of the following areas: knowledge
representation, ontology engineering, semantic technologies, social
networks and web communities research, mobile and RFID-enabled services,
information retrieval methods, reasoning, formal languages, data mining,
visualization techniques, human-computer interaction.</span><span lang=EN
style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4;background:white'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>A formal degree and interest required
for pursuing a PhD at the University of Innsbruck.</span><span lang=EN
style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4;background:white'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Interest in working for the EU
projects PeerAssist and PlanetData.</span><span lang=EN style='font-size:
11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:9.6pt;margin-bottom:
1.8pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:9.6pt;margin-bottom:
1.8pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt'>The
main objectives of the <b>PeerAssist</b> project are the conceptualization,
design, implementation and demonstration of a flexible Peer-to-Peer (P2P)
platform, which will allow elderly people (not necessarily familiar with ICT
technologies) to build virtual communities dynamically based on interests and
needs they share.<b> </b>The PeerAssist platform will facilitate establishing
on demand ad-hoc communities with friends, family,<b> </b>neighbors,
caregivers, facilitators, care providers, etc., based on shared interests and
communication needs. The community<b> </b>building and the P2P interaction will
be achieved using information extracted from peer roles, profiles and user
modeling,<b> </b>context that describes the overall user environment, and the
specific request initiated, or service provided, by a peer, all of<b> </b>which
are represented semantically in a machine understandable form. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:9.6pt;margin-bottom:
1.8pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:9.6pt;margin-bottom:
1.8pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:
11.0pt'>PlanetData</span></b><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt'> (<a
href="http://www.planet-data.eu/" target="_blank"><b><span style='color:#444444'>http://www.planet-data.eu</span></b></a>)
is an EU Network of Excellence coordinated by STI Innsbruck. Its main aim is to
establish an interdisciplinary, sustainable European community of researchers,
helping organizations to expose their data on the Web in a useful way.
PlanetData will push forward the state-of-the-art in large-scale data
management and its application to the creation of useful, open data sets. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:9.6pt;margin-bottom:
1.8pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:
11.0pt'> </span></b><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:9.6pt;margin-bottom:
1.8pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt'>The
projects’ consortia are interdisciplinary team of engineers and researchers in
Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Web Science and Knowledge Management
from all over Europe of industrial and academic organizations. The contribution
of STI Innsbruck is on semantic technologies for context-aware knowledge
representation, capturing and processing of the information arriving from
sensors, as well as on the design, prototyping and end-user evaluation of novel
mobile and augmented reality services that comprise information about the
communities and social networks. As part of the projects, the candidate will be
also involved in community building, workshop and symposium organization,
contributing to roadmaps and white papers, as well as supporting the provision
of semantic and service infrastructures to the wider research community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:9.6pt;margin-bottom:
1.8pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:9.6pt;margin-bottom:
1.8pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt'>The
projects will run for 24 (PeerAssist) and 48 (PlanetData) months, while
starting in September-October 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:9.6pt;margin-bottom:
1.8pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:9.6pt;margin-bottom:
1.8pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt'>We
kindly invite you to submit your application to <a
href="javascript:linkTo_UnCryptMailto('lzhksn9gqZrsh1-zs');" target="_blank"><b><span
style='color:#444444'>hr@sti2.at</span></b></a>. Please include a current
resume, a list of publications (if applicable), and digital versions of your
most relevant works (such as graduation thesis or latest publications).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:9.6pt;margin-bottom:
1.8pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:9.6pt;margin-bottom:
1.8pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt'>In
case of further questions regarding this position please contact Dr. Anna
Fensel (<a href="javascript:linkTo_UnCryptMailto('lzhksn9zmmz-edmrdkZrsh1-zs');"><b><span
style='color:#444444'>anna.fensel@sti2.at</span></b></a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<pre><span lang=EN style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
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