Research
Appointments in
Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT)
Applications are invited for 3-year Research staff appointments within the Division of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. The successful candidates will join the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute and the Institute of Representation and Reasoning to work on fundamental and applied problems associated with the acquisition, modelling, reuse, retrieval, publishing and maintenance of knowledge. The work is being funded by a prestigious 6-year Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration award, granted by EPSRC to Edinburgh and four other UK universities, and backed by over 20 industrial, commercial and governmental organisations. The research programme is named AKT: Advanced Knowledge Technologies.
The
appointments will be made on the Research staff salary scale, £16,286
- £24,479 pa depending on qualifications and experience.Successful
applicants will join a world leading Institute which is at the forefront
of research and development in knowledge engineering, knowledge based planning
and scheduling, and enterprise modelling, and is developing and applying
a variety of technologies in the commercial world; we currently have a
wide range of externally funded industrial and research projects to extend
and/or apply knowledge technologies in realistic situations. Successful
applicants will have excellent written and verbal communication skills,
and the ability and desire to work as part of a highly skilled collaborative
research team. Experience with one or more of the following technologies
will be particularly advantageous: intelligent systems; knowledge modelling
technologies (ontologies, problem solving methods); formal logics; organisational
modelling techniques; programming languages (Java, rule-based languages
such as CLIPS, Lisp or Prolog); semantic markup languages (XML, RDF). Knowledge
of interoperability standards (CORBA, OKBC), of HTML, and application development
skills (requirements engineering, knowledge acquisition, and system implementation)
will also be assets for these positions.
The
AKT research will be based in the Artificial Intelligence Applications
Institute (AIAI) and the Institute for Representation and Reasoning within
the Division of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Formed in August
1998, the Division brought together the former Departments of Artificial
Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Computer Science with their associated
institutes, including AIAI. The Division possesses a combination of breadth
and strength unparalleled elsewhere in the UK and competitive world-wide.
AIAI
was formed in 1984, and has a strong international reputation for technology
transfer and applied research, because it has been at the forefront of
researching and developing commercially viable applications of AI technology.AIAI
has worked, and continues to work, in the areas of Knowledge Engineering,
Knowledge Based Planning and Scheduling, Enterprise Modelling, and Intelligent
Documents.
The
Institute for Representation and Reasoning performs fundamental research
in Software Systems and Processes; Approximate and Qualitative Reasoning;
and Mathematical Reasoning. This Institute continues much of the highly-regarded
research that was carried out by the Department of Artificial Intelligence
at the University of Edinburgh.
Closing
date for applications: July 31st, 2000. Interviews will be held in mid-August,
2000.
This post
is open to internal and external applicants.
Further
particulars for this post, including a description of the AKT programme,
can be found on the Web at http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/akt/.Informal
enquiries can be sent to Austin Tate <a.tate@ed.ac.uk>, David Robertson
<d.robertson@ed.ac.uk> or John Kingston <j.kingston@ed.ac.uk>.By
telephone, ring +44 (0)131 650 2732
Further
particulars and application packs should be obtained from PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT,
9-16 Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1HT. Tel: +44 131 650 2511 (24 hour
answering service) or email: personnel@ed.ac.uk
quoting reference number 306555.Information
regarding this appointment can also be found at www.personnel.ed.ac.uk/recruit.htm.
AIAI
has had a number of recent grant successes in its primary work areas, and
will be recruiting further staff over the next few months to work on projects
applying knowledge based technology to multimedia databases, coalition planning & process
management, divorce law, criminal law and forensic statistics. We are particularly
interested to hear from applicants whose skills or interests include one
of these areas as well as knowledge technologies and programming techniques.