RESEARCH POST IN THE DEPT. OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF MILAN Applications are invited for a research post within the framework of the "Principled Hybrid Systems: Theory and Applications" (PHYSTA) research network. The network is funded by the Training and Mobility of Researchers programme (TMR) of the EC and has started in December 1997. It involves research groups from five universities: i) King's College London, United Kingdom (Dept. of Mathematics, Prof. J.Taylor) ii) Katholic University of Nijmegen, Netherlands (Centre for Neural Networks, Prof. Stan Gielen) iii) National Technical University of Athens, Greece (Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Prof. Stefanos Kollias) iv) University of Milan, Italy (Department of Computer Science, Prof. Bruno Apolloni) v) Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Dept. of Psychology/English, Prof. Rodie Cowie) The aim of the research network is the development of a theory and a methodology for combining symbolic and sub-symbolic techniques. The problem domain which is used comes from HCI and refers to emotion understanding based on static/moving image and speech signals. The research post is available in the Neural Networks Laboratory of the Computer Science Department of the University of Milan. The post is available immediately for a period of 18 months. The successful applicant will work for the continuation of the development of a hybrid system prototype which has been implemented. This is a system combining a neural processing part which performs a mapping from the feature to the propositional variables space and a symbolic processing part. The latter is a series of meditation jumps to higher levels of abstraction following a PAC learning framework for boolean formulas. Candidates must have (or be close to obtaining) a PhD in a field such as Computer Science, Mathematics or Electrical Engineering. C programming skills are necessary while experience using SNNS and Scheme/Lisp programming skills are welcome. As the funding is provided by the EC TMR programme there are some restrictions on who may benefit from it: * Candidates must be 35 years old or younger. * Candidates must be nationals of a EU country, Norway, Switzerland or Iceland * Candidates must not be Italian nationals or have worked in Italy 18 out of the last 24 months. The salary for this post is approximately 2,100 Euros. To apply for this post please (e)mail your CV to the address below: Professor Bruno Apolloni, Neural Networks Laboratory Computer Science Department University of Milan, Via Comelico 39, Milano 20135, ITALY phone: 0039 02 55006284 fax: 0039 02 55006276 email: apolloni@dsi.unimi.it More information: apolloni@dsi.unimi.it http://www.image.ece.ntua.gr/physta