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Using mathematics to improve rail cargo planning

Every year, around 8,400 employees transport more than 100 million tonnes of goods on behalf of Rail Cargo Austria. 620 traction units and 21,500 goods wagons are required purely for rail cargo operations. In the case of highly complex logistics tasks such as this, the deployment of man and machine requires careful planning. Mathematicians working on a project funded by FFG are now developing algorithms designed to significantly enhance the planning process.

Job Announcement: PreDoc Scientist (f/m)

The Department of Applied Informatics (Research Group Adaptive and Networked Production Systems) invites applications for the position of an

PreDoc Scientist (f/m) (in German: Universitätsassistent/in)

The tasks and responsibilities of the position include:

Participation in research and teaching activities of the Research Group Adaptive and Networked Production Systems
Independent research with the goal of Doctoral Promotion within the period of appointment
Dedicated collaboration in administrative and organizational tasks of the department
Project collaboration with academic and industrial partners of the research group
Participation in public relations activities of the department and faculty

Required Qualifications:

Completed Master’s or Diploma studies with substantial focus on Informatics (e.g., in Informatics, Business Information Systems, Information Management or Data Science) at a domestic or foreign higher education institution
Fluency in spoken and written English

Additional Desired Qualifications:

Basic knowledge and practical experience in one or more of the following areas:

Declarative Problem Solving

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

Combinatorial Search and Optimization

Constraints and Preferences

Computational Complexity

Planning and SchedulingData Mining and Machine Learning

Algorithms and Implementation

Good academic performance
First scientific publication(s) (in addition to the Master’s or Diploma thesis)
International and practical experience specific to the position
Social and communicative competences
Teaching experience and didactic competence

Applications with the customary documents are to be submitted until 12 December 2018
indicating reference code 709/18 to Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Dekanatekanzlei /
Recruiting, exclusively via the online application form at www.aau.at/obf.

Download : Univ.-AssistentIn_AINF

Job Announcement: We are hiring an INSTITUTE TECHNICIAN (f/m)

The Department of Applied Informatics (Information Systems) invites applications for the position of an

INSTITUTE TECHNICIAN (f/m)!

Job description:

Technical support and maintenance of the operation of the workstation and training computers/devices, peripherals, networks as well as system and application software of the Department of Applied Informatics
Technical support of the special IT equipment, systems, networks and software required for teaching and research at the Department of Applied Informatics
Programming tasks that support the teaching activities and research projects of the Institute or are necessary for the fulfilment of the above-mentioned tasks

The beginning is as soon as possible.

Applications must be submitted no later than 28.11.2018, see the official Job Announcement (in German)!

Building genuine (decision-making) behaviour into economic models

Economists endeavour to emulate the behaviour of actors in economic contexts in order to calculate the consequences. The difficulty is this: Many at times restrictive assumptions concerning the behaviour of actors do not reflect the real world. A new project funded by the Anniversary Fund of the OeNB (Oesterreichische Nationalbank) aims to get a better grasp on reality.