[DL] Several Open Positions in Semantic Technologies and Applications

[Andreas Abecker]

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Job Offers in Semantic Technologies and Applications
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In the context of several national and international research projects, the
Information Process Engineering (IPE) department of FZI (The technology
transfer center for IT at the University of Karlsruhe / Germany) is looking
for several distinguished graduates in computer science, information
management, business engineering or related sciences for the position of a 

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Scientific Researcher (German public servants salary group BAT IIa) 

Central topics of interest for these positions are:

- Knowledge management in Software-Engineering
- Ontology management (Ontology Creation, Evolution, Mapping, Reasoning)
- Adaptive e-learning (context-aware, personalized)
- Semantic technologies for web-scale search and retrieval
- Semantic technologies for Business Process Management
- Economic aspects and business models for service- and grid-infrastructures

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We are looking for creative people with outstanding degrees, being able to
integrate fundamental scientific research and the ability to implement ideas
for practical use. 

We expect:

- interest in interdisciplinary and application-oriented scientific work in
IT
- deep technical and/or economic analysing and modeling skills (e.g., UML,
EPCs etc.); knowledge of ontology engineering, RDF(S) or OWL is advantageous
- very good English in speaking and writing; German is an advantage, but not
required
- good programming skills (Java preferred), especially server-side
technologies
- ability to conduct self-contained scientific work
- practical experience during the studies (programming, teaching jobs, etc)

You should have demonstrable knowledge or experience in one or more of the
following areas:

- formal systems / AI (e.g., logics, rule-based formalisms, machine
learning)
- information retrieval
- architecture of data-intensive and distibuted software systems; new
computing paradigms such as Web Services, P2P, Grid Computing, agent
technology
- service engineering, design of business and revenues models/incentive
engineering
- industry know-how - especially in the area of health care, software
engineering, e-government, or e-learning.

We provide:

- possibility to conduct application-oriented research and project-driven
work together with the  industry
- opportunity to obtain a PhD from the University of Karlsruhe - Department
of Economics and Business Engineering or Department of Computer Science
(Prof. Peter Lockemann, Prof. Wolffried Stucky, Prof. Rudi Studer, Prof.
Christof Weinhardt)
- a highly motivated interdisciplinary team on a high international level
- access to our international collaboration networks in our research areas,
also to our spin-off companies
- interesting mix of mostly international research projects and
application-oriented industry projects
- modern working environment
- a competitive salary as a full-time employee
- a workplace in one of the nicest medium-sized cities in the South-West of
Germany, close to France and Switzerland

Starting date: as soon as possible

Interest? 

... please send your application as soon as possible, preferably
electronically to ipe at fzi.de.

Contact:

Dr. Carsten Holtmann
FZI Research Center for Information Technologies / 
Information Process Engineering Department 
Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14
76131 Karlsruhe
GERMANY
http://www.fzi.de/ipe/eng/
mailto:ipe at fzi.de

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Dr. Andreas Abecker
Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI)
IPE Department
http://www.fzi.de/ipe/eng/mitarbeiter.php?id=15
http://www.andreas-abecker.de/