An international candidate can apply for both living allowance scholarship (~A$22,680, tax free) and tuition fee scholarship. The duration of each scholarship is for 3 or 3.5 years.

A successful candidate should

- possess an undergraduate degree or masters degree, or be close to completion of such studies (preferably, by July 2011);

- have a good background in at least one of computer science, mathematics, statistics, logic or related areas;

- show interest in an area like computational logic, data management, ontology engineering, semantic technologies, nonmonotonic reasoning, logic programming, or probabilistic reasoning.

The successful applicants will work in one of two projects funded by the Australia Research Council (ARC):

ARC Discovery: Efficient multi-context systems for heterogeneous information reasoning and sharing, 2011-2013. (Kewen Wang, Grigoris Antoniou and Torsten Schaub)  

ARC Discovery: Rule-Based Reasoning Systems for Complex and Dynamic Ontologies, 2010.1-2012. (Kewen Wang, John Thornton, Junhu Wang, Thomas Eiter, Grigoris Antoniou, Hans Tompits)

Interested applicants are encouraged to first contact Associate Professor Kewen Wang, email: k.wang@griffith.edu.au, phone: +61 7 3735 5028