Job Opportunity in Social Computing

Senior Research Associate in Social Computing

School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University
Salary: £31,331 to £36,298
Closing Date: Wednesday 13 February 2013
Interview Date: Wednesday 27 February 2013

A post-doctoral research position is available in Social Computing at Lancaster University to develop and evaluate a social platform for users to reflect on work/life balance practices.

Digital Brain Switch is a multidisciplinary, multi-institution research project led by Lancaster University and involving Royal Holloway London, the University of Kent, and the Open University. The aim of the project is to understand the impact of digital technologies on work/life balance and to investigate ways in which new digital technologies may support people to improve their work/life balance. The work at Lancaster will focus on designing, building and evaluating a social platform that will allow project participants to track their work/life behaviours and identify patterns that allow them to make changes that affect work/life balance.

The position is available within the Social Computing research group which carries out research on projects funded to the amount of over £4M. Social Computing has been identified as a key growth area within the School of Computing & Communications with recent appointments including a Lecturer in Social Computing and a Lecturer in Big Data.

This is a challenging role that offers significant growth potential for the right candidate. The project consortium includes world leading academics in their fields and thus offers excellent career progression opportunities through the network of contacts that will be built in the project. Lancaster’s School of Computing and Communications is consistently ranked in the top ten in the UK and offers a congenial and highly interactive working environment. The position would suit a researcher who enjoys the challenge of working with a team of researchers from different disciplines.

For further details, please see: http://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A638

TENURE-TRACK POSITION in the Information Systems Engineering department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

TENURE-TRACK POSITION in the Information Systems Engineering department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.  

The Department of Information Systems Engineering at Ben-Gurion University invites applications for faculty at all levels. Applications are invited for full-time, tenure-track position in the area of Information Systems, starting at 01. October 2013.

Applicants must possess a Ph.D. degree in the area of Information Systems, Computer Science or a related discipline.

Candidates must have a strong expertise in one of the following:  Systems Analysis & Design, Databases, Software Engineering, System Modeling, Information Retrieval, Data Mining, or related subjects. Candidates must have demonstrated the potential to achieve international recognition through original and creative high-caliber research. Successful candidates are expected to be excellent emerging researchers with strong leadership capabilities. Additional duties include graduate students supervision and teaching courses within the Information Systems Engineering department.  The teaching language is Hebrew.     Applications should consist of a letter of intent, current curriculum vitae, a list of publications, a statement of teaching philosophy, teaching interests, and teaching achievements, a statement of research interests and achievements, copies of 3 recent publications, and the names of at least three referees. Relevant industrial experience is an asset.

Review of the applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Electronic applications should be emailed no later than February 15 2013  to:

 Prof. Bracha Shapira , bshapira@bgu.ac.il 

At the department of Information Systems Engineering the candidate will find a young and dynamic environment with active research groups in diverse information systems and information technologies themes, such as systems modeling, data mining, medical informatics, recommender systems, and information security.

Information about the Information Systems Engineering department at Ben-Gurion University can be found at  www.ise.bgu.ac.il

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Prof. Bracha Shapira,
Head, Dept. of Information Systems Engineering

Faculty of Engineering Sciences

Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva 84105, ISRAEL

bshapira@bgu.ac.il; 

Tel +972-8-6477878; fax: +972-8-6477527

[PhD position] Two fully funded Doctoral Researcher @ KIT

Two fully funded Doctoral Researcher @ Institute AIFB, KIT, Germany. PhD students are hired as Scientific Staff.

For research projects concerned with knowledge extraction, data integration and analytics we seek to fill positions for fully funded Doctoral Researchers for two years, with renewal possible. Doctoral Researchers are hired as scientific staff.

We are seeking applications from individuals with a very good Masters degree (or equivalent) in computer science, math or related disciplines. Background and research interest in at least one of the topic areas Data Analytics, Structured Statistical Models, Machine Learning, Semantic Technologies, Linked Data, Text Mining, Graph Mining is expected, for instance with expertise in Representation, Inference and Learning in Graphical Models for Entity Resolution.
Further, we require general competencies that qualify you for scientific work, active participation in research projects and assistance in the guidance of students and lecturing. The position requires advanced English language skills. The willingness to learn German is expected.

For further information see
http://www.aifb.kit.edu/web/Stellenausschreibung76/en
http://www.aifb.kit.edu/web/Stellenausschreibung77/en

The Knowledge Management research group at the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) is an interdisciplinary team of computer scientists and related disciplines and among the leading international institutions in the field of semantic technologies. KIT is one of the leading universities in science and engineering in Europe.
Our group offers a firstclass and international research environment with various interdisciplinary but related research topics and projects. The close cooperation with the FZI Research Center for Information Technology in Karlsruhe, the Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI) and a large industry partner network allows for the combination of fundamental and applied research and a fast transfer of research results into practice.

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Achim Rettinger
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
www.aifb.kit.edu/web/Achim_Rettinger/en

one internship opportunity in Service Solution Design department in IBM's Almaden Research Center

We currently have an opening for one internship opportunity in Service Solution Design department in IBM’s Almaden Research Center for the summer of 2013. We are Services Research department in reputed IBM’s Almaden Research Center. In our department we conduct research and develop solutions and analytical tools for managing complex services projects involving large outsourcing deals

Some of the research challenges we investigate include: what are the characteristics of an effective service solution? how to measure the quality of a service solution being proposed? how and what can be learned from prior service engagements to improve the quality of future service solutions? How to identify the factors that influence the win outcomes and conduct win prediction analysis? What are the root causes for inefficiencies in a service solution lifecycle management? How to identify similar service solutions? Which service solution sets are candidates for ‘service products’? Etc. We are at the cutting edge of framing problems and defining solutions in the emerging area of Service Science. Answering these questions require multi-disciplinary expertise. Our current projects require expertise in data mining, and statistical machine learning topics. Our team constitutes of people who have expertise in business process management, decision support systems, text analysis, statistical machine learning, simulations and complex software systems engineering. Our team members have won multiple best paper awards from prestigious conferences and journals such as INFORMS and Decision Sciences Journal in the past. We are looking for motivated, self-driven, Ph.D candidates with deep subject matter expertise in data mining, statistical machine learning areas of Computer Science or related fields from top Universities. Multi-disciplinary candidates are also welcome to apply. Interested candidates can send their resumes to: Rama Akkiraju at akkiraju@us.ibm.com by February 28 2013.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field and working toward Ph.D degree
At least 2 years experience in data mining, statistical machine learning techniques
At least 1 year experience in Statistical tools such as SPSS, R, etc. 
At least 2 years experience in Java 
English: Fluent

Preferred 
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field and working toward Ph.D degree

Contact: Rama Akkiraju


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Qi He, Ph.D.
Research Staff Member
D3 246, IBM Almaden Research Center
650 Harry Road
San Jose, CA 95120
Phone: (408)-927-1871
Fax: (408)-927-2457
Email: heq@us.ibm.com
Homepage: http://researcher.ibm.com/person/us-heq

PhD research fellowship on temporal and spatial search and indexing in Trondheim, Norway

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim,
Norway, is offering a PhD position as part of the centre on Information
Access Disruptions (iAD). Partially funded by the Research Council of Norway
as a Centre for Research-based Innovation (SFI), iAD is directed by
Microsoft Development Center Norway (MDCN) in collaboration with NTNU and a
number of leading universities.


Information access technology has emerged as one of the most innovative
technology areas impacting a wide range of industries, business models and
even social patterns. As part of iAD, the Norwegian University of Science
and Technology (NTNU) wants to employ a PhD student within one of the
following target areas:

1. Big data analysis.
2. Large-scale analytical query processing.
3. Temporal and spatial search and indexing.

Specific Conditions: The appointment is at salary code 1017, which currently
corresponds to a yearly gross income of NOK 416.300 (equivalent to approx.
EUR 55.500 and USD 75.000).

Our group is highly international and English is the working language.

Further information on the fellowship can be obtained from Professor
Kjetil Nørvåg (noervaag at idi.ntnu.no).

For more detailed information about the research group, see:
http://www.idi.ntnu.no/grupper/dif/

For the full announcement and application instructions see
http://www.jobbnorge.no/job.aspx?jobid=89908

Closing date: 2013-02-15

JCAI 2013 Doctoral Consortium [Applications Due: February 18, 2013]

Students are invited to apply for admission to the doctoral consortium to be held at the IJCAI conference, Bejing, China, August 3-9, 2013.

The doctoral consortium provides an opportunity for Ph.D. students to discuss their research interests and career objectives with established esearchers in AI.

Deadline for applications: February 18, 2013
Notification of acceptance: March 28, 2013

Perspective applicants should submit:

1. a two-page extended abstract on their thesis, formatted following the
IJCAI requirements. Accepted abstracts will be included in the IJCAI
Proceedings and be presented briefly at the doctoral consortium.
Acceptance for publication is not a requirement for admission to the
doctoral consortium, but submission is required to apply to the doctoral
consortium.

2. a curriculum vitae (2 pages) with background (name, university),
education (degree sought, year/status in degree, previous degrees),
employment, and relevant experience in research (publications,
presentations, conferences attended, etc).

3. a personal statement (1-2 pages max) with answers to the following
questions:
a. previous attendance to doctoral consortium (which one? when? was it
useful? what was most useful?)
b. submission to IJCAI and/or IJCAI workshops
c. expected graduation
d. type of job desired (research, teaching, development, etc)

4. a letter of support from the advisor
For details visit http://ijcai13.org/. Submissions to
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijcai2013dc

Some funding will be available to cover in part travel costs. IJCAI will
offer additional travel grants to student authors of accepted papers.
Details will be available later.

For students who are interested in combining their travel to IJCAI with a
longer research visit we have secured spaces from hosts in various
research labs in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and the
Australian NICTA labs. We have also secured some spaces for students from
Asia who want to do a research visit in Switzerland and in Ireland. Please
contact us if interested for details. Note that there is no funding for
these visits.

For additional information and questions contact:

Maria Gini (Univ. of Minnesota, USA)
Jimmy Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
Michela Milano (Univ. of Bologna, Italy)
Co-chairs, Doctoral Consortium, IJCAI 2013

ACM Multimedia 2013 - Call for Brave New Idea Papers

 ACM Multimedia 2013 - Call for Brave New Idea Papers
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http://acmmm13.org/submissions/call-for-brave-new-idea-papers/

Brave New Ideas should address long term research challenges, point to new research directions, or provide new insights or brave perspectives that pave the way to innovation.
We thus seek contributions that explore innovative and paradigm shifts in conventional theory and practice of multimedia techniques and applications. We also seek to draw attention to methods that differ from the state of art in practice or theory and demonstrate the potential for new ways of thinking. Such papers may arise out of inter-disciplinary work, and may involve cross-disciplinary inputs. Although comprehensive experimental results are not required, at least preliminary results should be presented as proof of concept.

Submission Guidelines

The papers may come from two sources. We expect most papers to come from direct submissions in the “Brave New Idea Program”. These papers will be reviewed in two stages: Extended abstracts (2-pages) will be first filtered by the Brave New Ideas Program Chairs, and then selected papers (up to 10 pages) will undergo a full review plus discussions by the Chairs. Please submit 2-page abstracts in standard ACM MM 2013 format, with the exception that the papers need not be blind.
Meanwhile, at the discretion of the Program Chairs, submissions to regular full paper track may be recommended to the “Brave New Ideas Program” Committee for considerations to be included in the BNI program.

Important Dates

* Proposal for papers: (A 2-page abstract in ACM format) March 15, 2013
* Notification of Acceptance of Abstracts:March 24, 2013
* Full paper deadline:April 26, 2013
* Notifications of Acceptance of Full Papers:June 25, 2013
* Camera-Ready Submission Deadline:July 30, 2013

Contact

For any questions regarding BNI papers please email the Brave New Idea Chairs:

Jiebo Luo (University of Rochester, USA) jluo@cs.rochester.edu
Shuicheng Yan (National University of Singapore, SG) eleyans@nus.edu.sg

Scholarship on Recommender Systems and Personalization

Subject to a close co-operation with the Zalando GmbH [1], the Knowledge Mining & Assessment Group [2] at Technical University of Darmstadt is offering a

 Zalando Doctoral Scholarship on Recommender Systems and Personalization

Zalando is known for rapid growth and innovative Marketing driven by a young and dynamic team; behind the scenes, it is aiming at creating the best online fashion experience. To that end Zalando is working on cutting edge personalization technologies and recommendations. The Knowledge Mining & Assessment Group at TU Darmstadt headed by Prof. Dr. Ulf Brefeld focuses on machine learning and information retrieval. The cooperation with Zalando offers an outstanding access to novel problem settings and real data at enterprise-level scales. We will collaborate closely with the Recommendations Group and the Data Intelligence Team at Zalando. Regular visits at the Zalando Headquarters in Berlin are encouraged. 

Requirements for application

Excellently qualified graduates from the disciplines of computer science, mathematics, statistics, and related studies are invited to apply. Successful candidates are expected to possess very good programming skills in Python (Hadoop, Java, C/C++ skills are a bonus), to work independently, demonstrate their personal commitment, team and communication skills as well as a readiness to cooperate. Experience in recommender systems, machine learning, and information retrieval and processing methods would be appreciated. 

The scholarship is granted for 36 months for completing a doctoral thesis. The successful candidate will be granted 1,400 Euros per month (tax free). Women and people with disabilities are expressly invited to submit their application. 

The Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt [3] regularly ranks among the top in Germany. Among its distinguishing features are its research initiative “Knowledge Discovery on the Web“ [4] focusing on powerful language technology procedures, text mining, machine learning and scalable infrastructures for assessing and aggregating knowledge. 

Please submit your application by February 4, 2013. Applications should include a letter of motivation, CV and details regarding previous scientific work, certifications of studies and work, including the graduate thesis and possibly electronic publications. Applications as well as inquiries should be sent to Stefanie Schmahl <schmahl@kma.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>.

[1] http://www.zalando.de/

[2] http://www.kma.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ 

[3] http://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/

[4] http://www.werc.tu-darmstadt.de/

PhD Positions in Mobile and Social Computing available @ Dalian Univ. of Tech., China

The Mobile and Social Computing Laboratory at Dalian University of Technology (DUT Phone Lab) conducts interdisciplinary, application-driven academic research in mobile and social computing. We are interested in a broad spectrum of cutting-edge research into mobile social computing, network science, and cyber-physical systems, from theoretical foundations, through design and implementation, to real-world applications, as well as education. We are working on critical enabling technologies for building systems and services that bridge the Cyber, Physical, and Social Worlds, with focus on e.g. social network analysis, ad hoc social networks, smart communities and systems, emotion, memory, and storytelling. 

 
We are opening 2 PhD student positions in mobile and social computing. All positions will be coupled to full Chinese Government Scholarships. Basic living allowance will be 2,000 RMB/month, plus Comprehensive Medical Insurance and Benefit. The scholarships are exempt from registration fee, tuition, and fee for basic learning materials. Accommodation on campus will be provided for free. The University will offer excellent working conditions.
 
Supervisor: Associate Professor Feng XIA
Working location: Dalian University of Technology @ Dalian, China
Starting date: September 2013
PhD duration: 3-4 years
 
Qualifications
1. Applicants must be non-Chinese citizens in good health.
2. Applicants must be students who study in foreign countries.
3. Applicants shall have a master's degree in related discipline.
4. Applicants must be under the age of 40.
5. A good command of the English language (in speaking and in writing) is required.
6. Research experience in related areas is a plus.
 
Application procedure
Before submitting the full application (to the University), each potential applicant should first send an initial application via email to Dr. Feng Xia (f.xia@ieee.org). The application should include a detailed CV (including email addresses of two referees), a brief statement of research experience and interests (in one page), and two best scientific documents/publications written by yourself (in English). The deadline for applications is 1 February 2013. Only a few candidates will be shortlisted for full application. Interested applicants are highly encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible. We will not accept applications once the positions are fulfilled. 
 
For further information regarding these positions, please contact Dr. Feng Xia (f.xia@ieee.org).

PAISI 2013 - Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics, Beijing, China

CALL FOR PAPERS

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Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics 

***** PAISI 2013 *****

(to be held in conjunction with IJCAI 2013)

Workshop Website: http://www.business.hku.hk/paisi/2013/

August 3-4, 2013, Beijing, China

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Important Dates

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Submission due: March 1, 2013

Notification of acceptance: April 5, 2013

Camera-ready copy due: April 19, 2013

FDIA 2013: 5th Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access

FDIA 2013: 5th Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access

In Conjunction with the EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL in INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

CALL FOR PAPERS

September 3, 2013, Granada, Spain

 http://www.ugr.es/~essir2013/FDIA-about.php

Paper submissions via
 https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fdia2013

ECIR 2013 workshop "From Republicans to Teenagers - Group Membership and Search (GRUMPS)"

From Republicans to Teenagers: Group Membership and Search (GRUMPS)

ECIR 2013 workshop, Moscow, Russia
24th March, 2013

http://wwwhome.ewi.utwente.nl/~hiemstra/grumps/

!!! - * Submission site now open -- Deadline is extended until January 18 * - !!!

http://wwwhome.ewi.utwente.nl/~hiemstra/grumps/submit.html

In the early years of information retrieval, the focus of research was on systems aspects such as crawling, indexing, and relevancy ranking. Over the years, more and more user-related information such as click information or search history has entered the equation, creating more and more personalized search experiences, though still within the scope of the same overall system.

Though fully personalized search is probably desirable, this individualistic perspective does not exploit the fact that a lot of a user’s behavior can be explained through their group membership. Children, despite individual differences, share many challenges and needs; as do men, Republicans, Chinese or any user group.

This workshop, co-located with ECIR'13 in Moscow, takes a group-centric approach to IR and invites contributions that either (i) propose and evaluate IR systems for a particular user group or that (ii) describe how the search behavior of specific groups differ, potentially requiring a different way of addressing their needs.

The workshop will feature an invited talk by Daria Sorokina, senior data scientist at LinkedIn, with the title "Recruiters, Job Seekers and Spammers: Innovations in Job Search at LinkedIn".

Workshop web site

http://wwwhome.ewi.utwente.nl/~hiemstra/grumps/

Topics of Interest

GRUMPS welcomes contributions on any issue concerning adapting search for specific user groups and, in particular, on:

· Understanding of search behavior and relevance criteria of specific user groups

· Identifying labeled user groups from search behavior

· Using specific user features (e.g. demographic) for personalized advertising/sponsored search

· Understanding the effects of domain expertise, age, user experience and cognitive abilities on search goals and results evaluation

· Development of test collections for evaluation of personalized search systems focused on users with specific features

· Search interfaces and result representation for people with specific needs and specific interests

Important Dates

Papers deadline: January 18, 2013

Acceptance notification: January 28, 2013

Camera-ready version: February 8, 2013

Workshop: March 24, 2013

All due dates are defined in terms of times before 11:59pm, Hawaii time (i.e., UTC/GMT - 10 hours) of the due date.

Submission Details

We welcome 2-4 page position papers to be presented as short talks and 6-8 page full papers to be presented as regular talks. Please submit your papers through https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=grumps2013.

Submissions should follow the two-column style without page numbers available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/samplestyles/. Accepted papers will be published as CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/) and will be available for free download.

All submissions must be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Please ensure that any special fonts used are included in the submitted documents. All papers must be original and must not have been published or be under review elsewhere.

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