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PhD student positions at the KRDB centre for Knowledge and Data, Bolzano (Italy)

PhD positions at KRDB Centre - Free Univ. of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

http://www.unibz.it/research/phdcourses/index.html?LanguageID=EN
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PhD opportunities at the KRDB Research Centre
<http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/>
Faculty of Computer Science
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
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The Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano 
(Italy) offers regular openings for studentships for its PhD program. 
Up-to-date information about how to apply for the PhD program and the 
studentship - including deadlines, number of positions and necessary 
documents - can be found in the university PhD web page 
<http://www.unibz.it/research/phdcourses/index.html?LanguageID=EN> (see 
"Public Competition Announcement for PhD courses - 24th cycle") and in the 
faculty PhD web page 
<http://www.unibz.it/inf/phdcs/index.html?LanguageID=EN>.

The grant amounts roughly to 45,000 Euro over the three years of the PhD. 
Substantial extra funding is available for participation in international 
conferences, schools, and workshops. The faculty of Computer Science and 
its PhD program are entirely based on the English language.

RESEARCH TOPICS

The KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data 
<http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/> of the faculty of Computer Science invites 
applicants to the PhD program to get in touch with the research group, in 
order to have a better understanding of the possible research activities 
in which prospective students may be involved. Relevant research topics in 
the centre are the following:

   * Computational Logic and Deductive Databases
   * Computational Logic and Constraint Programming
   * Data and Information Integration
   * Description Logics and Ontology Languages
   * Efficient Reasoning Algorithms for Description Logics
   * Intelligent Access to Web Resources
   * Logic Based Approaches to Natural Language Understanding
   * Logic-Based Modelling of Biological Knowledge
   * Natural Language Processing
   * Ontology Development and Evaluation
   * P2P Database Integration
   * Query Answering in Distributed Environments
   * Semistructured Data Management
   * Temporal Logics and Temporal Databases

Other research topics are listed in the personal web pages of the
members of the KRDB Centre, see
<http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/staff.php>.

The research activities in the KRDB research centre require good knowledge 
of Logic and of Foundations of Databases, and some knowledge of Artificial 
Intelligence and of Knowledge Representation. Good knowledge of English is 
also preferred.

THE KRDB RESEARCH CENTRE <http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/index.php>

In recent years, knowledge and data base applications have progressively 
converged towards integrated technologies which try to overcome the limits 
of each single discipline. To be useful in realistic applications, a 
modern knowledge representation and reasoning system must be able to 
handle large data sets, and to provide expressive query languages. On the 
other hand, the information stored on the Web, in digital libraries, and 
in data warehouses is now very complex and with deep semantic structures, 
thus requiring more intelligent modelling languages and methodologies, and 
reasoning services on those complex representations to support design, 
management, flexible access, and integration.

The KRDB Research Centre was founded in 2002, and it now comprises 12 
research staff and 9 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. The KRDB centre participated 
in national and international projects, it is currently involved in two 
European projects and three European Networks of Excellence, and it is a 
member of the Advisory Committee of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). 
The international prestige of the centre is evidenced by the participation 
of its members as conference and PC chairs, editors of international 
journals, invited speakers at international events, and by their 
publication score in international journals and conferences.

CONTACTS

To get in contact with the KRDB Research Centre, send an email to:

    Prof. Diego Calvanese
    Faculty of Computer Science
    Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
    Piazza Domenicani, 3
    I-39100 Bolzano, Italy
    Email: calvanese@inf.unibz.it
    Phone: +39-0471-016-160
    Fax: +39-0471-016-009

To get in touch with the current PhD students, see
<https://www.inf.unibz.it/phd/>.