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Organization: National Technical University of Athens

Location: Athens, Greece

Field: Database management

Requirements:

Junior researchers with an MSc in areas such as spatial databases, query processing and indexing, mobile and pervasive computing, large scale data management, distributed systems, AI, geographic information science, geocomputation, and spatial and temporal reasoning are encouraged to apply.

Abstract:

Early Stage Researcher (ESR) position within the Marie Curie ITN "GEOCROWD - Creating a Geospatial Knowledge World", to work in the Knowledge and Database Systems Laboratory headed by Professor Timos Sellis at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece.

Description:

GeoWeb 2.0 is the geographic embodiment of the Web 2.0 moniker for the next generation Web, that is, it is a term the next generation of geographic information publishing, discovery and use. The goal of the GEOCROWD project is to establish a fertile research environment by means of a training network that will promote the GeoWeb 2.0 vision and advance the state of the art in collecting, storing, analyzing, processing, reconciling, and making large amounts of semantically rich user-generated geospatial information available on the Web. Specifically, activities will be centered on (i) exploiting user-contributed geospatial data, (ii) Web-geodata management, (iii) efficient means for data collection and dissemination, e.g., mobile computing, and (iv) innovative uses for such data. The project goal is to tame this data explosion, which applied to the geospatial domain translates into massively collecting and sharing knowledge to ultimately digitize the world. This is the challenging research goal to be undertaken by the recruited ESRs.

Deadline: 10-03-2011

Contacts:

Link: http://web.dbnet.ntua.gr/en/home.html

Email: pfoser@dblab.ece.ntua.gr

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