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