[Compgeom-announce] Offer for a PhD position

[Nicolas Beldiceanu <Nicolas.Beldiceanu@emn.fr>]

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- OFFER -
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 Within the NetWMS european project (a STREP) the
 constraint team (Discrete Constraints) from Nantes
 (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/ppc/equipe.html)
 is looking for a candidate (with a Master's degree)
 for a PhD.

 Founding is available for 3 years (the standard
 duration of a PhD in France) and no teaching is required.
 Starting time will be september 2006.
 The topic will be about geometrical constraints as
 described in the subject at the end of the message.
 The research will be supervised by dr. Nicolas Beldiceanu.

 We offer an interesting, internationally oriented working
 environment that specializes in global constraints
 (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/sdemasse/gccat/),
 and the possibility to attend international summerschools and
 conferences.

 Academic partners of the NetWMS project are:
 (1) The constraint project from INRIA (http://
 contraintes.inria.fr/),
 (2) The CEA,
 (3) The Swedish Institute of Computer Science (http://
 www.sics.se/).


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 - SUBJECT -
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 Multidimensional non-overlapping constraints
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 Within the European project NetWMS the goal is to design
 and develop a non-overlapping constraint that considers
 the following aspects:
 (1) Handling non-rectangular shapes.
 (2) Handling objects with 2,3, ..., 5 dimensions.
 (3) Handling additional geometrical constraints.
 The constraint and its extensions will be developped
 in Java and integrated within the constraint programming CHOCO
 (http://choco.sourceforge.net/).
 The project will be done by working together with INRIA and SICS.


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 - REQUIRED BACKGROUND -
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 The necessary background is:
 (1) Knowledge in algorithmic geometry (sweep, Minkowski sum, ...)
 (2) Knowledge in constraint programming (filtering algorithms)
 (3) Programming with Java
 Knowledge in algorithmic geometry is more important than knowledge
 in constraint programming.


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- MORE INFORMATION -
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Interested candidates can contact Nicolas Beldiceanu
and send an application letter and CV by e-mail.

 Nicolas Beldiceanu
 LINA, FRE 2729
 Ecole des Mines de Nantes
 4, rue Alfred Kastler - BP 20722
 44307 Nantes Cedex 03 France

 Tel. : +33 2 51 85 82 42
 Fax  : +33 2 51 85 82 49
 Email: Nicolas.Beldiceanu@emn.fr
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