Position in Innovative Agents Architectures

Position in Innovative Agents Architectures at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria!


Today's distributed physical systems, e.g., for automated manufacturing or logistics have to deal with increasing complexity and a need to adapt to rapidly changing environments. Traditional hierarchical and centralized approaches are not adequate for control of such distributed systems and can fail due to insufficient capabilities to cope with high degree of complexity and practical requirements for robustness and flexibility. A useful approach for decentralized control is to employ autonomous software agents. This approach can be used in distributed physical systems by assigning software agents to physical components. Given an ontology of the "world" surrounding the agent and its assigned physical component, the agent is provided with a real-time representation of its environment built from sensor data and communication with other agents. In the course of the project, an innovative architecture for such agents as well as an agent platform should be developed.

Candidates should have a degree in computer science or software engineering and have knowledge or strong interests in artificial intelligence, agent-based system and ontologies.


For application and further Information please contact Prof. Herman Kaindl (kaindl@ict.tuwien.ac.at) or Edin Arnautovic (arnautovic@ict.tuwien.ac.at).