Ph.D. position available

[Ben Krose]

I would like to announce the following job opening on the connectionists list:


The Intelligent Autonomous Systems group of the Research Institute
Computer Science of the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
(http://www.science.uva.nl/research/ias/) invites applications for a
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Ph.D. position "Probabilistic models for distributed surveillance
systems"
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The project focusses on 'Networked Intelligent Devices' systems:
autonomous functioning camera's in a network environment. Here we have
to deal with several fundamental problems: the identification problem
(`is the object which is observed by one camera the same as the object
observed by some other camera some time ago?') and the representation
problem (`how can probabilistic information be integrated in a
distributed system?'). Recently Bayesian networks have shown to be
able to represent such dependencies and to exploit them, although in
other applications (diagnosis). We want to investigate to which extent
Bayesian networks can be applied to this area, whether the
dependencies can be learned and whether these networks can be used in
a multi-agent system. The project is funded by the Dutch Technology
Foundation STW.

Desired profile: The highly qualified applicant should possess a
masters degree in the field of multi-agent systems, neural networks,
image processing or statistics.  Programming skills are an asset (C,
Matlab, ...), as is a familiarity with UNIX and PC platforms.


We offer: 

1) A challenging research environment. The IAS group
consists three staff members, a postdoc and 7 Ph.D. students working
in the field of robotics, vision and probabilistic models. We
collaborate within the Foundation for Neural Networks with the
probabilistic modeling group at Nijmegen University

2) An attractive income. Dutch Ph.D. students get a salary which
starts at DFL 3.055,- a month for the first year, growing up to DFL
4.362,- per month.

3) The Ph.D. student will be a member of the ASCI research school
providing Ph.D-level training.


Information:
Dr. ir. B.J.A. Krse, tel 020-525 7461, email: krose at science.uva.nl
More about the project: http://www.science.uva.nl/research/learn/

Applications for this position close on February 15, 2001.
Please write to:
afdeling Personeelszaken
Computer Science Department
Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
referring to job opening nr 15114


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dr. ir. B.J.A. Kr\"ose
Department of Computer Science
University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, NL.
tel: +31 20 525 7520/7463/(7490 fax) http://www.science.uva.nl/~krose/