Postdoc and PhD positions at Utrecht Univ.

[Marc van Kreveld]

The Institute of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht
University participates in the European Community research
project SPIRIT. Other partners of SPIRIT are located in
Hannover, Zurich, Paris, Cardiff, and Sheffield. Within this
project, we have (starting mid 2002):

  a postdoc position (3 years)

   and

  a PhD position (4 years)

The goal of the SPIRIT project (SPatially-aware Information
Retrieval on the InterneT) is to develop an Internet search
engine that is targeted at geographically oriented searches. The
contribution of Utrecht to the project is the research on and
development of ranking of the query results by relevance with
respect to the spatial query. Research involves the study of
geometric and non-geometric, geographic measures for resemblance,
distance, and other spatial concepts. Properties of such measures
and geometric algorithms to compute them, must be developed,
implemented, and tested. Another research topic is the geometric
and algorithmic aspects of the automated extraction of meta-data
from web pages that contain geographic data. Both the postdoc and
the PhD candidate will be involved in the research, which lies at
the interface of Geographic Information Science and applied
computational geometry. The postdoc will also have some small
organisational responsibilities towards the project.

The research will be carried out under the supervision of dr.
M. van Kreveld and dr. R. Veltkamp, and is done at the Applied
Algorithms group headed by prof. M. Overmars. This group
currently consists of 8 staff members, 9 PhD students, and 5
postdocs and scientific programmers. For more information about
this group, see http://www.cs.uu.nl/centers/give/

If you are interested in one of the above-mentioned positions,
please contact Marc van Kreveld by e-mail: marc at cs.uu.nl,
phone (+31) (0) 30 2534119, who will be pleased to provide more
details about the project, and to answer questions about working
conditions etc.




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