Academic

Le STUDIUM® (http://leSTUDIUM.cnrs-orleans.fr) offers a research associate
position, located in Orléans, France, on the following topic:

Knowledge Discovery in Databases : Study of the Classification Task
in Geographic Information Systems

The duration of the appointment is 12 months, with a possibility of renewal
for a further 12 months period. The starting dates will be decided in
agreement with the selected candidate, but should be before December 2001.
The positions are not open to French nationals.

PROFILE OF THE RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

The research associate should have competences in several of the following
fields:
  Machine Learning, Data Analysis, Inductive Logic Programming, Databases,
  Spatial Data, Geographic Information Systems.

SCIENTIFIC SUPERVISOR

 Prof. Christel Vrain
e.mail Christel.Vrain@lifo.univ-orleans.fr

HOST LABORATORY

 Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans (LIFO)
 University of Orléans, 4 rue Léonard de Vinci,  BP 6759
 45067 Orléans cedex 2, France
 Director: Prof. Gaétan Hains
http://www.univ-orleans.fr/SCIENCES/LIFO

LIFO researchers have ongoing projects on parallelized
data mining, text mining and natural language processing among others.
As a result there are possibilities for local interactions on
many fronts. For intensive computations and large storage capacity,
a PC cluster has been installed at LIFO in early 2001.
The laboratory has its own specialised library (approx. 800 mostly
recent books), access to electronic libraries and to INRIA's
bibliographic services.
Orléans lies 110km south of Paris, has approximately the same climate,
and 1/3 the housing cost. It is a city of 160 000 with
its own national theater, mediatheque (multi-media city library) and
modern Tramway connection to the University campus.

FURTHER INFORMATION: please contact Prof. Christel Vrain