PhD Position in Declarative Problem Solving

We are looking for an excellent PhD Researchers to strengthen Bart Bogaerts' research group on Knowledge Representation and Combinatorial
Optimization, which is part of the Declarative Languages and Artificial Intelligence (DTAI) section of the department of Computer Science of KU Leuven.

Project

There are two (related) possible research directions for a PhD. The successful candidate will focus either on *proof logging* or on *explanations* for combinatorial solving; some details can be found below. The field of combinatorial optimization is concerned with developing generic tools that take a declarative problem description and automatically compute an optimal solution to it. Often, users specify their problem in a high-level, human-understandable formal language. This specification is first translated into a low-level specification a solver understands and subsequently solved. Thanks to tremendous progress in solving technology, we can now solve a wi...