3 PHD POSITIONS (Recommender Systems, Core Database Technologies, and Medical Data Mining)

[Johann Gamper]

PHD POSITIONS (Recommender Systems, Core Database Technologies, and
Medical Data Warehousing and Data Mining)

The Database and Information Systems Centre (DIS) at Free University of
Bozen-Bolzano is looking for PhD students for projects in the area of
Recommender Systems, Database Systems, and Decision Support Systems.
The fellowships are starting from January 2009.

1 PHD STUDENT IN THE FIELD OF RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS: Recommender
systems are intelligent applications aimed at assisting users in a
decision-making process when users don't have sufficient personal
experience to choose one item amongst a potentially overwhelming set
of alternative products or services. DIS is active in a number of
research projects in this area and in particular on: learning
conversational policies for recommender systems, group recommender
systems, cross-domain recommendations, learning user models from
interaction data, mobile and context-aware recommender systems.

1 PHD STUDENT IN THE FIELD OF CORE DATABASE TECHNOLOIGIES: The needs
of mission critical applications dealing with large amounts of real-
world data, such as intelligent transportation systems or eHealth
systems, are driving the continuous development of advanced database
technology. In the DIS research center we investigate fundamental
research issues for the next generation of large high performance
database and decision support systems. Among others we develop new
solutions to approximately match XML data, to aggregate and cluster
multi-dimensional data, and to manage temporal and spatial data.

1 PHD STUDENT IN MEDICAL DATA WAREHOUSING AND DATA MINING: This
position is in the context of a four-years project, called MEDAN
(MEdical Data warehousing and Analysis), which aims to conduct basic
and applied research in the area of data warehousing and intelligent
data analysis for health care and medical applications. Specific
research topics include temporal medical data analysis (e.g.,
different forms of temporal aggregation or temporal pattern
recognition) and visual health care analytics (e.g., visual analysis
methods based on scatter plots and density surfaces).

Interested candidates please send informal inquiries, your CV
(including publication list) and links to selected papers to:
- Francesco Ricci (fricci@...) for Recommender Systems
- Michael Boehlen (boehlen@...) for Core Database Technologies
- Johann Gamper (gamper@...) for Medical Data Warehousing and
Data Mining

The deadline for the formal application is October 20, 2008.

For more information,

DIS at FUB: http://www.inf.unibz.it/dis/
Recommender Systems: http://www.inf.unibz.it/~ricci
PhD admission: http://www.unibz.it/inf/phdcs/
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