Phd fellowship in enterprise entity identification

PhD Fellowship in Enterprise Entity Identification DERI - National University of Ireland, Galway The Unit for eBusiness at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI: http://www.deri.ie/) of the National University of Ireland, Galway invites applications for a PhD fellowship position. DERI a leading research institute in semantic technologies offers a stimulating, dynamic and multi-cultural research environment, excellent ties to research-groups worldwide and close collaboration with industrialpartners.The DERI Unit for eBusiness focuses on the investigation of linked data within the Enterprise in the key areas of software architectures, business information systems, data provenance, exploitable trends from Enterprise2.0, content analytics and data consistency models....

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PhD Position on Weather Insurance Design project

The Agri-food & Agri-environmental Economics Group of ETH Zurich(www.afee.ethz.ch) invites applications for a Ph.D position. The successful candidate will implement a research project on the weather insurancedesign. The project will be financed by SwissNational Science Foundation and an ETHZurich internal PhD-grant. The objective of the project is to enhance the methodology of the weather insurance contract design considering conditions of limited relevance and applicability of historical data. The project will focus on the application of extremal dependence analysis and elaboration of the methodology for the utilization of a priori information available in the form of climate change projections. The project will be conducted based on historical data, climate change projections...

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PhD Scholarships - Victoria University of Wellington

Victoria PhD Scholarships - application information Application form available here. Full regulations can be downloadedhere. (Requires Acrobat Reader) History or background of award For the purpose of encouraging postgraduate research, one objective being to build up strong research schools at the University, Victoria offers PhD scholarships to support doctoral studies. These scholarships are awarded on academic merit and are open to New Zealand and international students in any discipline. Purpose of award These Scholarships are intended to encourage doctoral study at Victoria University of Wellington. Selection criteria The Scholarships are open to graduates of any university within or outside of New Zealand who intend to enrol either for PhD or who have...

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Ph.D. Positions at Aalborg University, Denmark

Center for Data-Intensive Systems, Daisy (http://daisy.aau.dk/), has several fully funded Ph.D. positions available. The positions concern research in data management technologies that aim to allow energy distribution infrastructures to manage higher amounts of renewable energy and to better balance supply and demand. The production of renewable energy depends on external factors such as wind and sunlight. Hence, available energy from renewable sources can only be predicted, not planned, This renders it challenging for energy distributors to efficiently accommodate renewable energy sources. The research will explore the use of so-called micro requests for controlling demand and supply at the level of individual households. The research calls for advanced, distributed...

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PhD Position in Journalism at Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland

Position call for PhD candidate in Journalism and collaborator for the Media and Communication Service Requirements: – Master degree in Journalism or Communication – Expertise in journalistic writing and editing – Know-how in the use of new technologies and web publishing – Languages: – English mother tongue – Very good understanding of Italian Duties: The selected candidate will be required to: – Work 50% for the Media and Communication Service of the Università della Svizzera italiana – Collaborate in research activities of the European Journalism Observatory (www.ejo.ch) Research topic: The PhD research will focus on journalism: the topic will be defined in detail together with prof. Stephan Russ-Mohl, director of the PhD thesis. Job description...

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