Applications are invited for a Ph.D. studentship on the general area of "Sequential Decision-making under Uncertainty" at INRIA Lille - Team SequeL. Below is the detail of this call.

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Title: Sequential Decision-Making with Big Data

Keywords: sequential decision-making, reinforcement learning, learning and planning in MDPs and POMDPs, exploration/exploitation dilemma, bandit algorithms, adaptive resource allocation, regret minimization, optimization

Research Program:

ROKS-2013

International workshop on advances in Regularization, Optimization, Kernel methods and Support vector machines: theory and applications

July 8-10, 2013, Leuven, Belgium
http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/sista/ROKS2013

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September 21 - October 11, 2013
Martigny, Switzerland

Description and Objectives
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The Parsing & Semantics research area at Xerox Research Centre Europe
(XRCE) is currently looking for an experienced researcher in statistical natural language processing (NLP), with a deep understanding of machine learning and/or information extraction (e.g. event extraction). The ideal candidate would also have experience or knowledge of textual entailment, knowledge representation, and combining machine learning with expert knowledge. The applicant should have good coding skills (e.g. Java programming), with the ability to develop research prototypes and pilots.

CALL FOR PAPERS - TPAMI Special Issue on “Higher Order Graphical Models in Computer Vision: Modelling, Inference & Learning”

This special issue invites paper submissions addressing the issues of modelling, inference, and learning in models with higher-order terms and global constraints. We also welcome survey and overview papers in these general areas.

The call for papers is available at:
(pdf) http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/cfps/cfp_tpamisi_h...
(html) http://www.di.ens.fr/~alahari/tpami-cfp.html.

The timeline is as follows:

Salary: up to £27,900 per annum
Closing date: 22 March 2013
Reference: D1181R

The ECML-PKDD 2013 Organizing Committee invites proposals for half-day tutorials to be held on the first and last days of the conference, which will take place in Prague, Czech Republic from September 23th to 27th, 2013.

The Finnish Center of Excellence in Computational Inference Research (COIN), a joint research center of Aalto University and University of Helsinki, is now seeking postdoctoral researchers to join us in developing and applying new methods of machine learning and probabilistic modeling, together with professors Samuel Kaski and Petri Myllymäki, with opportunities for collaboration with other professors at COIN. There are opportunities for both methods development and theoretical work, and interdisciplinary applications.

Funded PhD position in Sequential Learning with Similarities, SequeL team, INRIA, Lille, France

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION
possibly leading to a PERMANENT RESEARCH POSITION

Statistician, specialized in risk management

Context: Safety Line offers a permanent contract starting by a one-year post-doc
position co-supervised by the lab of Information and Communication Theory
(LTCI) of Telecom Paristech.

Safety Line is a French innovative company specialising in digital technology for risk
management. It develops statistical algorithms for data mining of data recorded in
flight by airlines (of the magnitude of hundreds of parameters per seconds per flight),