Ontology Research Position

[Wendy MacCaull]

The Centre for Logic and Information at St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada, is looking for candidates to work as a researcher  in a 

multi-year  University/Industry/Health Authority collaborative project entitled "Building Decision Support Through Dynamic Workflow Systems for Health 

Care", directed by Wendy MacCaull.

  

Candidates must have a background in knowledge representation and reasoning and research expertise in ontologies and web based ontology oriented 

applications. Familiarity with Description Logics and inference mechanisms, with ontology development tools such as the Protégé Ontology Editor and 

the Knowledge Acquisition System, and with semantic web technologies and languages such as OWL are required. Experience in high performance computing 

methodologies, a working knowledge in biomedical ontologies and interest in reasoning with uncertainty are assets. 

 

The successful candidate will be developing health ontologies for integration with business process technology. 

 

A Masters degree in Mathematics or Computer Science and a minimum of 2 years experience in academic research (such as a post doc or experienced PhD 

student) are required. The initial appointment will be for a period of one year, with extensions of 2 or more years based on satisfactory achievement. 

The salary will be based on the experience of the candidate. The starting date is as soon as possible and, at the latest, June 2009.  

 

The candidate will have the opportunity to work in an interdisciplinary setting involving computer scientists and graduate students, an industry partner 

and participants from the health care domain.

 

More information about the position and the project can be obtained from Wendy MacCaull (wmaccaul at stfx.ca); interested applicants can visit the website 

www.logic.stfx.ca and follow the links there.

 

Applications should include:

 

A detailed statement of prior experience and research interests 

A CV

Sample publications

Three Letters of Reference (send directly to the address below) 

Applications should be sent be sent directly to Janet Norgrove at jnorgrove at stfx.ca  by January 7, 2009.

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