[Post-doctoral position available]

Post-doctoral position available

Research position is available in the joint 'Databases and Information 
Retrieval' (BaDRI-BDI) and 'ATLantic dAta Systems' (INRIA-ATLAS) research group 
of IRIN, Nantes (Fr). This position, funded by the 'Pays de la Loire' Regional 
Concil for 6 to 11 months, is:
 - mainly for non-french post-doctoral visitors (total grant amount for 11 
months : 24,390 euros);
 - but also for young expatriate french researchers who would like to apply 
locally for an associate professor position in the near future (total grant 
amount for 11 months : 37,350 euros).

IRIN is a large laboratory (about 100 persons) dedicated to computer science 
research in a broad variety of fields among which Databases and Information 
Retrieval, Knowledge Discovery and Representation, Constraint Solving, 
Bioinformatics, Natural Language Processing, Object-Oriented Modeling and 
Design, etc.

---- Our project:

As the information stored in databases is rapidly growing, users need tools and 
methods for querying collections of data, analysing its content, navigating 
through the database as well as supporting complex decision making processes. 
To deal with this issue, two main research areas have raised up interest of the 
database community: on the one hand, the knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) 
is concerned with the non-trivial extraction of valid, previously unknown, 
potentially useful, and ultimately understandable patterns in data [Fayyad et 
al. 1996], by the way of an inductive learning task (data mining). On the other 
hand, on-line analytical processes (OLAP) provide users with integrated, 
synthetic and intelligible views, either materialized (data warehousing and 
multidimensional DB) or virtual (GaV/LaV mediator architectures), of multiple, 
heterogeneous and autonomous data sources.

At the intersection of these two research areas, The joint BaDRI and 
INRIA-ATLAS research group focuses on a summarization method, so-called 
SaintEtiQ, providing user with self-descriptive, multidimensional and 
multi-level granulation views of a collection of structured data. A summary 
hierarchy is built from data by the way of a concept formation algorithm. 
Furthermore, the Zadeh's fuzzy set theory offers the theoretical background to 
represent summaries with fuzzy labels taken from fuzzy partitions and 
linguistic variables. Indeed, the well-founded symbolic/numerical interface as 
well as flexibility and robustness of the underlying process of summarization 
are some of the critical advantages of this approach.

Facing the recent convergence of data and documents, especially through the XML 
normalization, as well as the intensive development of applications, services, 
and management systems dedicated to it, we are now investigating content 
summarization of semi-structured documents. Thus, the offered post-doctoral 
position is concerned with the extension of our summarization method to 
semi-structured data, in the general framework of XML documents over the World 
Wide Web. Implementation and experimentation of the proposed solutions are also 
expected from the applicant.

---- Requirements & preferred skills:

 - have recently acquired a PhD. degree;
 - at most 35 years old;
 - familiar with Databases, XML (Schema, DOM, DBMS), OLAP Techniques, Uncertain 
Information Management, Fuzzy Set Theory.

---- Deadline for application: May, 9 2003

---- To apply:

Candidates can send a detailed CV (with references) and obtain more 
informations:
 - by email to mouaddib-B5i9jFBDuVFL9gsp55mzlVaPQRlvutdw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or 
raschia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/badri.html
      http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/ATLAS/
 - by postal mail to

  Noureddine Mouaddib
  IRIN
  2, rue de la Houssinière 
  BP 92208
  F-44322 Nantes Cedex 3
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