DCU School of Computing
Research
RESEARCH VACANCIES
PostDoc & PhD Vacancies
Project Title: iAd
The Centre for Digital Video Processing
has one PhD position available researching information importance for extreme precision
recommendation of content from large multimedia archives, with a starting date of early
2009.
Current state-of-the art systems for information access can provide efficient access to
billions of documents, structured data records and multimedia files. The very success of these
large-scale retrieval systems has presented users with a new "extreme precision problem": how
to filter out only the useful information from ranked lists of hundreds or thousands of retrieved
items. When recommending content to users, it is not simply sufficient to recommend content with
high utility for a user; rather it is vital to examine the importance of the information in the
context of the user's current status. A key aspect of the recommendation techniques developed in
this research will be a methodology for measuring the importance for a user of a piece of
information at any given time. Information importance is closely linked to the concept of
information novelty (i.e. don't recommend a user something that the user already has seen,
or something that tells the user nothing new).
This research is carried out as part of the iAd project (iAd -
http://www.iad-centre.no/), which is a
new collaboration with norwegian partners (incl. FAST/Microsoft), Dublin City University and
Cornell University. It is anticipated that the PhD candidate will spend a number of months at
the University of Tromso
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troms%C3%B8)
during the course of the PhD research. In addition, there will be many opportunties for the
student to interact with the CDVP researchers and with the iAd Project team in Norway and
Cornell University.
Application Requirements A suitable PhD candidate would be expected to have a
high honours degree in computer science or engineering (or a related discipline) and be
interested in developing search and recommendation techniques for large multimedia archives.
How to Apply Any interested candidates, please send a CV and cover letter to
Dr Cathal Gurrin ().
Closing Date End Febuary 2009.
Project Title: MASTER
Lero@DCU is participating in the EU funded research
project MASTER. This 3 year project is researching
techniques and tools for managing assurance, security and trust in service based systems.
The business of the future will be characterized by highly dynamic service-oriented architectures where
outsourcing and distributed management constitute the norm rather than the exception with an increasing
complexity in security and trust requirements from regulations and business standards. Best-effort security
will no longer be accepted and business entities will have to provide certified assurance services to
customers and expect assured services from contractors in order to manage the associated business and technology
risk. MASTER aims at providing methodologies and infrastructures that facilitate the monitoring, enforcement,
and audit of quantifiable indicators on the security of a business process, and that provide manageable
assurance of the security levels, trust levels and regulatory compliance of highly dynamic service-oriented
architecture in centralized, distributed (multidomain), and outsourcing contexts. To this extents MASTER
will identify new key indicators, protection and regulatory models and security model transformations coupled
with the methodological and verification tools for the analysis and assessment of business processes. It
will further define an overall infrastructure for the monitoring, enforcement, reaction, diagnosis and
assessment of these indicators centralized, distributed (multidomain), and outsourcing contexts.
Lero@DCU will contribute to the design-time support tools and methodologies for modeling, analysis and
verification/validation of key indicators. The supported design time process will capture high level indicators
expressing the threats and risk and will analyse and refine them to obtain a level of description appropriate
for specifying the behaviour of the run-time system. It will simulate or formally verify that the resulting
system does indeed counter the identified threats and risks.
Lero@DCU, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre,
advances the state-of-the-art in software engineering for specific domains. Lero is a partnership of academic
researchers and industry and is supported by Science Foundation Ireland.
Lero@DCU focuses on research into mathematical models and
tools for specifying and verifying flexible dependable system.
Lero@DCU is offering a post-doctoral post and 2 funded
studentships in the area of design tools for security and trust based in the
School of Computing, DCU.
If you have an honour degree in Computing please contact email Dr. David Sinclair at
School Scholarship Scheme
The School is offering a number of research scholarships to outstanding graduates under its
School Scholarship scheme, and is currently inviting applications. The scholarships support Ph.D.
research for three years and include:
- Stipend of up to 12,700 per annum
- Full fees paid for E.U. students (non-EU nationals can apply for fee exemption)
- Fully equipped personal workspace
- Opportunities to travel to international conferences
Application Requirements
Candidates must hold, or expect to obtain, a First Class Honours degree in Computing,
Mathematics or a related discipline, and agree on a research project with an academic in the
School of Computing.
How to Apply
Candidates should contact a member of staff whose research interests coincide with their own.
Staff members' research interests and contact details are listed on our research
group webpages. Alternatively, indicate your interest to our Research Admissions Coordinator who
will direct your enquiry to an appropriate staff member. The Research Admissions Coordinator may be
contacted at
or tel: +353 1 700 8974.
Closing Date
THE CURRENT CALL HAS CLOSED, PLEASE WATCH THIS SPACE FOR FUTURE
VACANCIES
In addition to the above School Scholarship scheme, the School of Computing has a range of funded
projects for which it seeks suitably-qualified graduates. To find out more, see our list of
proposed M.Sc. and Ph.D. projects.
To find out more on the benefits of choosing a research programme at DCU School of Computing,
download a copy of our 'postgraduate research
programmes' leaflet (pdf). For further details on postgraduate research at DCU School of
Computing, download a copy of our research
brochure (pdf).
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