PhD Positions Open at WU Vienna in Research Project SHAPE (Safety-critical Human- & dAta-centric Process management in Engineering projects)

(apologies for re-sending/cross-posting, there was a typo in the contact emails in the initial mail)

Dear all,

The Institute for Information Business is offering three PhD positions on a 2.5 years' contract, from October 1, 2014 (commencement date subject to negotiation) until March 31, 2017.
http://www.wu.ac.at/infobiz/newscontainer/shape

Responsibilities:
The candidate is expected to conduct research under the supervision of the principle investigators Prof. Dr. Axel Polleres and Prof. Dr. Jan Mendling within the frame of the FFG research project SHAPE (Safety-critical Human- & dAta-centric Process management in Engineering projects). In this project, we study ICT support for more rigorous and verifiable process management in recurring and adaptive engineering processes in an industrial context. The proposed framework shall provide automatic support for monitoring and checking conformance (e.g. to SIL levels) in engineering processes that require accountability in safety-critical domains such as the railway domain. To this end we will deploy methods from intelligent process mining, semantic technologies and automatic, constraint-based configuration.

Required skills and qualifications:
Candidates must have a master degree in information systems, business informatics, computer science, business administration, or social sciences and economics with a solid theoretical foundations in at least one of the following topic areas:
- business process management
- knowledge representation & reasoning
- process mining
- complex event processing
- natural language processing
- semantic web
- constraint-based configuration

Desirable skills and qualifications:
- Excellent study results,
- Technical knowledge of programming languages such as Java, data formats such as XML and RDF, and query languages such as SQL, SPARQL and XQuery
- Experience with industry and/or research projects,
- Experience in collaborating with companies,
- Proficiency in English,
- Experience with formal analysis of process models and corresponding software tools
- Experience with knowledge representation formalism and reasoning techniques such as Answer Set Programming

Submission deadline is 15 July 2014, to be sent by email including all necessary documents attached as a single PDF file to backoffice@ai.wu.ac.at.

More details please contact axel.polleres@wu.ac.at or jan.mendling@wu.ac.at for further details. To learn more about the Institute for Information Business, 
have a look here: http://www.wu.ac.at/infobiz/.

Best regards,

Axel Polleres and Jan Mendling
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Prof. Dr. Axel Polleres
Institute for Information Business, WU Vienna
url: http://www.polleres.net/  twitter: @AxelPolleres

Received on Friday, 13 June 2014 23:15:14 UTC