From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4D6ABBAF for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:11:31 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AiAGAA8NJUnAXQIngWdsb2JhbACMVAGHBgEBFiK9eIJ8 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,639,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="20183341" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 20 Nov 2008 16:11:31 +0100 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id mAKFBTQF001407 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:11:31 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AoMJAEwNJUmCJRAE/2dsb2JhbACMVAHFOYJ8 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,639,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="19381956" Received: from hydra.cs.vu.nl ([130.37.16.4]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 20 Nov 2008 16:11:14 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hydra.cs.vu.nl with esmtp (Smail #115) id m1L3BBZ-0012qCC; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:11 +0100 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:11:13 +0100 (CET) From: Wan Fokkink To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: PhD position: Trust and Authority in an Open Web Environment Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 49257E21.002 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; enrolled:98 artificial:01 semantic:02 data:02 represented:02 objects:02 discipline:03 limitations:04 deadline:05 deadline:05 scales:06 reasoning:07 group:07 integrating:07 cases:08 PhD POSITION: "Trust and Authority in an Open Web Environment" at the VU University Amsterdam, Department of Computer Science Deadline for applications: December 15, 2008 THE POSITION This PhD position is concerned with management of trust and authority for accessing, integrating and distributing information resources with varying access limitations, ranging from open Web sources to confidential sources. More specifically, the student will address the following research questions: 1. How should trust and authority of data and metadata be represented in Web formats? The work of the student will include the development of an ontology that captures the key concepts involved in trust and authority. 2. How can one identify and represent trust and authority policies in a mixed (open Web, limited access, confidential) environment? Many organizations have trust/authority policies. The challenge here is to represent these in an interoperable way, so that we can we use and combine them in a (semi-)open setting. 3. Which reasoning techniques can be employed on the trust/authority ontology and the policy representations? An important issue here is to show that the methods can guarantee the stated trust and security requirements. The use cases in the project are in the area of web-accessible museum and TV collections, where there is a mix of public and confidential information on multimedia objects. THE PLACE The Department of Computer Science provides an exciting academic work environment with a large range of ongoing national and international research projects. The student will become a member of the Semantic Web research group of the VU, which is one of the world leaders in this area. QUALIFICATIONS MsC in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence or related discipline, and the capabilities to function in a large research team. APPOINTMENT AND SALARY The Ph.D. student will be appointed for a period of four years. Salary is based on the salary scales of the VU University Amsterdam. As part of their training the student will be enrolled for the courses of the Dutch graduate school SIKS (School for Information and Knowledge Systems). INFORMATION AND APPLICATION Information about the position can be obtained from Prof. dr. Guus Schreiber (e-mail: ; tel: +31 20 598 7739) or Prof. dr. Wan Fokkink (e-mail: ; tel: +31 20 598 7735). When sending e-mail, please use "PhD Poseidon" as the subject line. Applications including a CV should be sent in electronic form to Mrs. E. Lammers (). The deadline for applications is December 15, 2008.