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<p class=MsoNormal>We are looking for outstanding PhD candidates (starting in
2016) in the following areas:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>1. Evolution of N-player cooperation (see [1])<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>2. Energy-efficient production scheduling*<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>3. Stock market prediction with sentiment analysis and
physiological measures<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>4. Algorithm selection and benchmarking based on
combinatorial optimisation problems^ (e.g., see [2])<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* with the option of spending 6 months x 2 at Tsinghua
University, China during the candidature<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>^ with the option of spending 6 months x 2 at the University
of Science and Technology of China during the candidature<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>If you have:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- completed at least four years of undergraduate study and
have attained Honours Class 1 or equivalent;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- proven English proficiency (IELTS of at least 7.0);<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- international peer reviewed research publications;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- a master degree with strong research components (especially
if you have only a 3-year undergraduate degree);<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>then please get in touch by submitting a Resume in PDF to
Raymond.Chiong at newcastle.edu.au (replace at with @) clearly highlighting the
above.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>References <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>[1] R. Chiong and M. Kirley, “Effects of iterated
interactions in multi-player spatial evolutionary games,” IEEE
Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 16(4), pp. 537-555, 2012.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>[2] T. Weise, R. Chiong, J. Lässig, K. Tang, S.
Tsutsui, W. Chen, Z. Michalewicz and X. Yao, “Benchmarking optimization
algorithms: An open source framework for the traveling salesman problem,”
IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, vol. 9(3), pp. 40-52, 2014.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>______________________________________________</span><span
lang=EN-MY><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Dr. Raymond Chiong, SMIEEE<br>
The University of Newcastle, Australia</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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