<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Griffith University, which has campuses in Brisbane and Gold Coast,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Queensland, has a strong team in Artificial Intelligence (especially,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Knowledge Representation and Ontologies). The AI and Semantic</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Technologies research group has been actively working on answer set</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">programming, DL ontologies and their applications. Research projects</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">in answer set programming, nonmonotonic reasoning, description logics,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">ontology change, ontology learning and ontology-based data access have</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">been funded by Australian Research Council (ARC).</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Several PhD scholarships are available for applications in Computer</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Science. We are searching for prospective PhD candidates to join our</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">research programs. Students with excellent undergraduate Honours or</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Master degrees, and established publication track record are</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">encouraged to apply for admission to Griffith’s PhD program, including</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">scholarships for living allowance and tuition. Applications can be</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">made on-line at:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><a href="http://www.griffith.edu.au/higher-degrees-research/how-to-apply" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px" target="_blank">http://www.griffith.edu.au/higher-degrees-research/how-to-apply</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"> and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">should be completed by 6 October, 2014.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">For further information, or to discuss research topics and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">supervision, please contact Prof Kewen Wang (</span><a href="mailto:k.wang@griffith.edu.au" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px" target="_blank">k.wang@griffith.edu.au</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">).</span><br><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">--</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Dr Zhe Wang</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Institute of Integrated Intelligent Systems, Griffith University</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Brisbane, QLD 4111, Australia</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">+61 (7) 373 55173</span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><a href="http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/zhe/">http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/zhe/</a></span></font><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div></div>