(Apologies if you receive this more than once)
PhD Opportunities at the University of Huddersfield
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There are two PhD studentships in constraint programming available in
the School of Computing & Mathematics at the University of
Huddersfield. Both are open to applicants from the EU. I should be
grateful if you would draw them to the attention of anyone who might
be interested. Further details can be found by following the links.
Thank you
Barbara Smith
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- Efficient consistency checking for applied planning systems
(http://scom.hud.ac.uk/staff/scombms/phd/constraint.htm)
Planning and constraint programming are areas of Artificial
Intelligence with practical applications, for example to remote
spacecraft control and all kinds of scheduling/timetabling. The
project will improve efficiency of a planning system developed at
Huddersfield by using constraint programming to check that the
proposed plans are achievable. A three year University bursary is
available to cover living costs (7500 pounds sterling in 2001-02,
increasing thereafter) and tuition fees for a student from the
European Union.
- Constraint Programming, Search and Symmetry
(http://scom.hud.ac.uk/staff/scombms/phd/symmetry.htm)
This is part of a joint EPSRC-funded project with the University of St
Andrews. Constraint programming is an area of AI with many practical
applications. Problems are typically solved by search, and symmetry on
the problem can cause wasted search effort, fruitlessly exploring
symmetrically-equivalent blind alleys. The research will build on a
recent approach to handling symmetry by adding constraints during
search. It will explore ways of dealing more intelligently with
subsets of the symmetries, by making use of ideas from computer
algebra. A three year EPSRC studentship is available to cover living
costs (as above) and tuition fees for a student from the European
Union.
For both studentships, contact
Prof. Barbara Smith,
School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Huddersfield, HD1 3DH, UK.
Tel +44 (0)1484 472147
email: b.m.smith@hud.ac.uk
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