One of the main objectives is the mobility and training of researchers. Currently we have vacancies for researchers (at doctoral and postdoctoral level) in our institution to work in the framework of CHOROCHRONOS for the next three years. We are looking for high quality motivated researchers that are working in various aspects of spatial and/or temporal databases and related fields. We put emphasis to the following topics:
- Integration of spatial and temporal models
- Data structures
- Query processing
Your presence and work in the area of spatial/temporal database systems encourages us to invite you for recommendation of researchers that you are aware and would recommend. Please distribute the message of CHOROCHRONOS as well as the aforementioned vacancies.=20
Please don=92t hesitate to contact us for any further information. You ma= y find the details for CHOROCHRONOS project and the available vacancies in the corresponding WWW sites:
http://www.dbnet.ntua.gr/projects/chorochronos.html
http://www.dbnet.ntua.gr/projects/vacancies.html
Best regards,
Dr. M. Vazirgiannis (on behalf of Prof. Timos Sellis)
PS. Attached you will find a short description of CHOROCHRONOS
CHOROCHRONOS is a 3 year research program funded by the European Com- mission under the Training and Mobility for Researchers program. A major goal of Training and Mobility for Researchers (TMR) networks is to provide an excellent environment for the training of young researchers. The CHOROCHRONOS sites will offer, during the three years of the project, grants for a total of about 30 years to young researchers having interests in topics related to Spatial and Temporal Database Systems.
Perspective candidates (meeting the listed requirements below) can apply to one or more of the CHOROCHRONOS sites, for appointments whose typical length is 12 months for post-doctoral researchers and 24 months for doctoral students.
REQUIREMENTS FOR CANDIDATES
The perspective candidate
+ must be less than 35 years of age at the time of the appointment at the hosting institution;
+ must be a holder of a doctoral degree or of a degree, obtained from a university or equivalent institution of higher education, which qualifies him to embark on a doctoral degree;
+ must be a national of a Member State of the Community or of an Associated State (Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway, Israel);
+ must not be a national of the state in which the institution appointing him/her is situated and he/she must not have carried out his/her normal activities in that state for more than 18 of the 24 months prior to his/her appointment;
INSTRUCTIONS FOR APPLICATIONS
Applications must include the following information:
a) Contact addresses, including home and office Phone numbers and email address;
b) Personnal Information, such as date of birth;
c) Educational background (including dates, institutions and grade or class; the candidate must also state explicitly what kind of position he/she applies for, i.e., doctoral student or post- doctoral researcher);
d) Research experience, including a list of publications;
e) A proposal for the research activity that the candidate intends to carry out at the host institution;
f) Desired starting date and length of the appointment (the appoint- ment must start at earliest on November 1, 1996, and must finish at latest on July 31, 1999, but further constraints may apply for each offered grant)
g) Names and addresses of three referees (including telephone num- bers and email addresses);
h) A declaration by the candidate stating that he/she meets the above requirements.
In the case the candidate applies at the same time to more than one site, this fact has to be declared explicitly in the accompanying let- ter, and the other sites where he or she applies have to be listed.
Each application has to be submitted to the Team Leader of the site the candidate intends to visit. Application submission can be via electronic mail, followed by a signed, printed copy. An electronic copy of the application has to be sent to the Network Coordinator. For more information please see http://www.dbnet.ece.ntua.gr/projects/chorochronos.html.
More details on the project follow
CHOROCHRONOS: A RESEARCH NETWORK FOR SPATIOTEMPORAL DATABASE SYSTEMS (http://www.dbnet.ece.ntua.gr/projects/chorochronos.html)
PROJECT OVERVIEW
Spatial and temporal databases have been important sub-areas of database research for a long time. Researchers in both areas have always felt that there are important connections in the problems addressed by each area, and the techniques and tools utilized for their solution. There are many publications in temporal databases which conclude with the phrase [the ideas in this paper can be extended to spatial data management. But up to now little has been done, particularly in Europe, for the systematic interaction and syn- ergy of these two areas so that the respective claims can be formally verified, refuted or appropriately qualified. CHOROCHRONOS aims to achieve exactly this kind of interaction and synergy between European researchers. The main objective of CHOROCHRONOS is to allow European researchers working on spatial and temporal databases to achieve a higher understanding of each other's work, integrate their results and methodologies, and advance the state of the art in this area through an intensive three-year research program. This will culminate in the design and partial implementation of an architecture for Spatiotempo- ral Database Systems (STDBMS). CHOROCHRONOS will cover issues related to the ontology, structure and representation for space and time, mod- els and languages for STDBMS, graphical user interfaces for spatiotem- poral information, query processing algorithms, storage structures and indexing techniques for spatiotemporal databases, and based on results on these issues will propose a reference architecture for Spatiotempo- ral Database Systems. The participants will also cooperate, through intensive workshops, with researchers from other disciplines who are dealing with temporal and spatial information in their research, and would benefit from the development of an STDBMS. Finally, the network will stimulate training and mobility of young researchers working in the areas of spatial and temporal databases through an extensive training program.
PARTNERS
+ National Tech. Univ. of Athens (NTUA), Computer Science Division, Greece (Project Coordinator) - Prof. Timos Sellis (timos@cs.ntua.gr)
+ Aalborg University, Department of Computer Science, Denmark - Prof. Christian Jensen (csj@cs.auc.dk)
+ FernUniversitaet Hagen, Praktische Informatik IV, Germany - Prof. Dr. Ralf Hartmut Gueting (gueting@fernuni-hagen.de)
+ Universita Degli Studi di L'Aquila, Dipartimento di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, Italy - Prof. Enrico Nardelli (nardelli@univaq.it)
+ Univ. of Manchester - Institute of Science & Technology, Depart- ment of Computation, United Kingdom - Dr. Manolis Koubarakis (manolis@sna.co.umist.ac.uk) and Dr. Babis Theodoulidis (babis@sna.co.umist.ac.uk)
+ Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Italy - Prof. Barbara Pernici (pernici@elet.polimi.it)
+ Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automation, Projet VERSO, France - Dr. Stephane Grumbach (Stephane.Grumbach@inria.fr) and Prof. Michel Scholl (Michel.Scholl@inria.fr)
+ Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Informatics, Greece - Prof. Yannis Manolopoulos (manolopo@eng.auth.gr) and Agriculture Univ. of Athens, Prof. Nikos Lorentzos (lorentzos@auadec.aua.ariadne-t.gr)
+ Technical University of Vienna, Department of Geoinformation, Austria - Prof. Andrew Frank (frank@geoinfo.tuwien.ac.at)
+ Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Institute for Information Systems, Switzerland - Prof. Hans-Jorg Schek (schek@inf.ethz.ch)
All participating nodes have an expertise either in spatial or in tem- poral database systems, with a long and reputable research record. In particular, Research Teams in the Network. The groups in Athens, Thessaloniki and L'Aquila have specialized on spatial data indexing techniques and the analysis of spatial data structures. INRIA and Hagen have a strong background in spatial query languages, graphical interfaces and visual spatial query languages, multi-scale representa- tion and transportation networks, while ETH has a long experience with system architectures and implementation. Vienna has been involved for a long time with the definition of ontologies for space and time and formal models of spatio- temporal geographic objects, while NTUA has a similar experience with spatial knowledge representation and reason- ing. In the field of temporal databases, Aalborg has been involved in building methodologies for temporal database design, as well as tempo- ral data models and query languages; similarly the UMIST team has been working on temporal relational database implementations and more recently on temporal relational constraint databases. To complement these activities in temporal databases, the group at Milano has been working on temporal reasoning, time granularity and on enhancing existing commercial database management systems with functionalities for time management.
TRAINING ASPECTS
A total of 366 man-months of young researcher (i.e. doctoral and post- doctoral researchers) effort will be funded by CHOROCHRONOS allowing talented young researchers (especially recent Ph.D.'s) to remain in Europe and contribute to the research area of spatiotemporal databases. At the same time it will allow young researchers from net- work nodes to visit other nodes, learn from their expertise and trans- fer this knowledge back to their home nodes.
For more information please contact the Project Coordinator
Prof. Timoleon Sellis
Dept. of Electrical and Comp. Engin.
National Tech. University of Athens
Zografou 15773, Athens
Greece
Tel. +30-1-7721601
FAX. +30-1-7721659
E-mail: timos@cs.ntua.gr
URL: http://www.dbnet.ece.ntua.gr/projects/chorochronos.html