Fwd: A fully funded PhD studentship at the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham- Important

[Kartik Singhal]

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Dear All

Please pass this information to the relevant M.Tech/B.Tech CSE Mail groups. Seems there is some good opportunity.

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Madhu

Dear Madhukumar Sir,
Will you please forward this mail to students in your department? It came from one of my friends.

Regards
Sameer

Subject: A fully funded PhD studentship at the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham

Dear All,

  We invite applications for PhD study in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham (UMMC & UNJC), student will spend most of his/her time at UNMC and will visit UNJC at least once for at least a couple of weeks.

Fixed term appointment for up to 36 months

Full tuition fees MR 42, 445 py + Stipend MR 2,200 pm (MR: Malaysia Ringgit)

 Project Title

Ontology-driven crop base knowledge system

 Supervisor names and contact details:

1.     Abdur Rakib, School of Computer Science, UNMC (Abdur...@nottingham.edu.my)

2.     Natasha Alechina, School of Computer Science, UNJC (Natasha....@nottingham.ac.uk)

 Project Description

The aim of this project is to combine and expand existing crop ontologies and if needed modify them to ensure consistency, include data for underutilised crops (e.g., Bambara groundnut), and provide support for decision making by crop growers in selecting suitable crops for their circumstances, including the type of land and climate, likely plant diseases, pests and other problems, and implement a web tool to provide this support with an ontology in the background. It is part of a multidisciplinary research project, so other crop data required for this project will be obtained from other collaborative CFFRC (http://www.nottingham.edu.my/CFFRC/index.aspx) research projects.

 We represent knowledge in Web Ontology Language (OWL) which extends RDF and RDFS and which has been developed as an ontology language that defines classes and properties and their relationships. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has declared two different standards for OWL, namely, OWL 1 and OWL 2. We use OWL 2, which is based on description logic (DL), a decidable fragment of first order logic that is used for efficient and tractable reasoning. The resulting tool will use the ontology as the main knowledge source for answering user queries, but will also involve an additional rule-based decision support mechanism which will ask for information about the concrete parameters relevant for the crop grower and display information about suitable crops in the form which is precise but easy to understand for non-computer scientist. In technical terms, the tool is a hybrid system which uses both ontology definitions and rules.

 The successful candidate will have a strong background in computer science and must have excellent programming skills (particularly Java), basic knowledge of ontology. Some knowledge of, or interest in, rule-based reasoning and/or AI techniques, would be desirable. The successful candidate will collaborate with other CFFRC researchers.

Further details of this project can be found at  http://baggins.nottingham.edu.my/~kefzabr/

 Applications:

All applicant should read the entry requirements and eligibility criteria (http://www.nottingham.edu.my/ComputerScience/Courses/PhDCS.aspx) and applications must include:

(1)  A complete CV 

(2)   One page research statement indicating what you see are interesting research issues relating to the above post and why your expertise is relevant.

(3)   2 References

(4)  English language

Applicants must have one of the following English qualifications:

 0 level/GCSE English: grade A to C

·         JMB Test: grades 1, 2, s

·         Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL): minimum mark of 550

·         IELTS: minimum score of 6.0

 Closing Date: 31st January 2013

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Dr. Abdur Rakib                                        

Assistant Professor                          

School of Computer Science                     

The University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus

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