3 PhD scholarships in Web Science: programming and querying linked data & social computation

3 PhD scholarships in Web Science: programming and querying linked data & social computation

Job Description

1. Programming with linked data
This is a joint project with the excellent research department of a large corporation exploiting knowledge about functional programming and the programming environment F# (http://research.microsoft.com/fsharp)

2. Indexing linked data
This is research work continuing our award-winning Linked Data environment SchemEx (http://challenge.semanticweb.org/2011/).

3. Social computation
This is research work exploiting our previous work on preference aggregation and provenance.

For more information: http://west.uni-koblenz.de/Jobs

Full Doctorate
yes

Research Stay
yes

Paid position?
yes

Start
01.04.2014

Length
36 months

Working Language
English, German

Language of the Doctoral Thesis
English, German

Requirements for Applicant

Subject Requirements (Qualification)
Master of Science in discipline relevant for Web Science with computer science at least as minor

Type of Persons
PhD student

Compulsory Attachments

• Curriculum vitae
• Copy of university degree
• High school diploma
• Letter of motivation

University / Organisation advertising the position

University / Organisation
Universität Koblenz-Landau - Präsidialamt Mainz
55118 Mainz

Faculty / Institute
Institute for Web Science and Technologies
Mainz
http://west.uni-koblenz.de/

Coordinator / Supervisor of the Doctoral Thesis
Herr Prof. Dr. Steffen Staab