[cross-posted from the User Modeling mailing list]

3 PHD POSITIONS on: Recommender Systems, Core Database Technologies, and
Medical Data Warehousing and Data Mining
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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 and Database/Data Warehouse Systems. The
fellowships are starting from January 2008.

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, case-based
recommender systems, item and user selection in recommender systems,
mediation of user models, mobile and context-aware recommender systems.

1 PHD STUDENT IN THE FIELD OF CORE DATABASE DATABASE TECHNOLOIGIES:
The needs of mission critical applications dealing with large amounts
of real-world data, such as intelligent transportation systems or
eHealth and eGovernment systems, are driving the continuous
development of database technology. In the Core Database Technology
project 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 and to aggregate and visualize multi- dimensional 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 enquiries, your CV
(including publication list) and links to selected papers to:
- Francesco Ricci (fricci@...) for Recommender Systems
- Michael Böhlen (boehlen@...) for Core Database Technologies
- Johann Gamper (gamper@...) for Medical Data Warehousing
and Data Mining

The deadline for the formal application is September 28, 2007.

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/