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Master by Research (MRes) Scholarships
Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Technology
Available at Staffordshire University (from 1st September 2008)
Project 1: Ref: CRS-CTA 200608
The project concerns the development of an Information System concerning the breakdown of boats with a company based in Stafford. The aim of this project is to develop and to assess the application of mobile computing and GPS systems in the company's business operation.
The candidate should have a solid understanding of systems analysis and design, databases, mobile computing and web technology.
The candidate will be expected to register for a Master by Research (MRes) with the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Technology at Staffordshire University, and will be based at the company‘s office. A studentship of £12,000 will be granted for 12 months together with tuition fees from the EPSRC Collaborative Training Account. The candidate will be supervised by an academic supervisor from the University. Due to funding restrictions, the candidate must be a UK or EU citizen and should ideally have a 2:1 classification in Computing or related field.
To apply, please send a CV and covering letter to Dr T. Atkins (a.s.atkins@staffs.ac.uk), quoting the relevant reference number. Your CV should include your education and employment history if applicable, and names and addresses of two referees, and a short description of your pertinent skills in relation to the project, and why you consider yourself suitable for this post.
Testing speech recognition based interactive voice response (IVR) services delivered by telephone
Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Technology
Available at Staffordshire University (from 1st September 2008)
Project 2: Ref: VC-CTA 230508
The project is based at a voice solutions company based at Wexham, Buckinghamshire, and is concerned with developing a tool to automatically generate test scenarios and data sets to enable test engineers to quickly and efficiently test speech recognition based interactive voice response (IVR) services delivered by telephone. The project does not require any knowledge of speech recognition per-se, but does require some knowledge of AI and, in particular, graph traversal algorithms, specification languages, and constraint satisfaction. It is envisaged that Object Constraint Language (OCL) will be used as the specification language - but this choice needs to be validated as part of the work. All implementation shall be in Java 6 and (where appropriate) the GUI shall be in Java Swing or Eclipse/SWT.
The candidate will be expected to register for a Master by Research (MRes) with the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Technology at Staffordshire University, and will be based at the company‘s office. A studentship of £12,000 to £16,000 will be granted for 12 months together with tuition fees from the EPSRC Collaborative Training Account. The candidate will be supervised by an academic supervisor from the University. The company would be interested to take on a candidate who is interested in pursuing the project to a doctoral thesis. Due to funding restrictions, the candidate must be UK or EU citizen and should ideally have a 2:1 classification in Computing or related field.
To apply, please send a CV and covering letter to Dr T. Atkins (a.s.atkins@staffs.ac.uk), quoting the relevant reference number. Your CV should include your education and employment history if applicable, and names and addresses of two referees, and a short description of your pertinent skills in relation to the project, and why you consider yourself suitable for this post.
