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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 15:02:12 +0100 (MET)
From: Antal van den Bosch Antal.vdnBosch@kub.nl
Subject: Job: Ph.D. project "Machine learning for planning" , Eindhoven/Tilburg
Web: http://ilk.kub.nl/ (click on Jobs in left frame)
Job: Ph.D. project "Machine learning for planning" ,
Eindhoven/Tilburg, The Netherlands
VACANCY: Ph.D. Position
Automatic inductive learning techniques for planning systems
Project description
To optimise the efficiency of planning systems it is necessary to have
a good estimate of the duration or costs of the planned tasks. For
some tasks, duration and costs are given; for others these factors are
uncertain. In the latter case the planning system should be equipped
with a model by which duration and costs can be estimated. For
example, a hospitalisation planning system, used to support the
admission and allocation of patients in a general hospital, contains a
component to estimate for each new patient the number of days of
treatment and recovery, usage of operating room, x-ray photos,
etc. Developing such models is supported traditionally by using
mathematical models, statistical techniques and expert systems.
The project target is, apart from a Ph.D. thesis, to formulate
recommendations for the application of inductive learning techniques
in planning systems in general, and to develop a concrete estimation
model, induced automatically for a realistic capacity planning
problem.
The project research is based at
Eindhoven Technical University, at the
Faculty of Technology Management's department of
Information and Technology. The research will be
done in close cooperation with the
Induction of Linguistic Knowledge
(ILK) research group at the Faculty of Arts of
Tilburg
University. Project managers are
dr. A. Weijters (Eindhoven University of Technology)
and
dr. Walter Daelemans (Tilburg University).
Your profile
You have a background in business administration / computer science or
a related direction with a sound mathematical component, and you are
interested in the application of computer-science methods to
real-world problems. Programming experience and knowledge of
statistical methods is an advantage.
Offer
We offer a four-year position. In the first year, salary is 2,834
Dutch guilders, increasing each year to 3,841 Dutch guilders in the
fourth year.
Information
When you are interested in applying for the project as described above, or
if you want more information, please contact dr. A. Weijters (phone
+31.40.2473857, E- mail:
a.j.m.m.weijters@tm.tue.nl)
or dr. W. Daelemans (phone +31.13.4663070, E-mail:
walter.daelemans@kub.nl).
This job description is also available on the web via the
ILK web page at Tilburg
University (click on "Jobs" in the left frame).
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