JOB DESCRIPTION
Bath Computer Science seeks two full-time post-doctoral researchers to work on the ALIVE (FP7) project. ALIVE will develop new approaches to service-oriented engineering based on the adaptation and reuse of coordination and organisation mechanisms often seen in human and other societies. Such methods provide robust descriptions of distributed systems, account for the individual autonomous nature of service providers / consumers and define a wide range of strategies and mechanisms with known properties to achieve coherent outcomes. The use
of such human like concepts also provides an opportunity to make the development of complex software systems more accessible to non-specialists, allowing a variety of actors from users to managers to participate more directly in the design and management of systems.
Bath leads the work-package on services, supports on the development of the theoretical framework and contributes to methodology and use cases. Bath's primary domains of expertise that are relevant to this project are (i) specification, verification and on-line reasoning for institutions and (ii) semantic web service description, discovery, brokerage and workflow enactment. The work at Bath will therefore include both theoretical research and prototype development.
QUALIFICATIONS
Applicants should have - or have nearly completed - a PhD in Computer Science or Artificial Intelligence, preferably in connection with agents and organizations. Demonstrated experience of web services and workflow enactment would be an advantage, along with some knowledge of
ontologies, norms and institutions. Successful candidates will be expected to travel frequently to partner sites and spend periods of up to two weeks at a time working there. The working language of the project is English (although there will be the opportunity to practice at least Spanish and Dutch) and so fluency in English is a necessity.
THE POSITIONS
These are full-time positions as post-doctoral researchers for a period of 30 months, starting February 1, 2008 or as soon as possible thereafter. Salary up to £30,012.
FURTHER DETAILS
For further information contact Julian Padget (jap@cs.bath.ac.uk) or Marina De Vos (mdv@cs.bath.ac.uk)
HOW TO APPLY
To find out more about the University of Bath and to apply online please go to http://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs.
Alternatively please email:
jobs@bath.ac.uk
or call 01225 386924 quoting ref number 07H441A. The closing date for applications is January 4th, 2008.
THE UNIVERSITY OF BATH
The University of Bath (http://www.bath.ac.uk) is one of the leading universities in Britain, with highly-rated teaching and research. It is a small, research-oriented university, founded in 1965, with approximately 12,000 students and about 500 permanent members of academic staff. From 1980 to 2000 Computing was a group within the Mathematics department, then became a separate department (of Computer Science) in 2000. There are three undergraduate programs and a portfolio Masters program. Currently, there are 22 permanent staff and
34 PhD students. The department has three research groups: Human Computer Interaction, Mathematical Logic and Symbolic Computation and Media Technology, with activity in Grids, Artificial Intelligence and Agents cutting across all three.
ALIVE PROJECT PARTNERS
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, University of Bath, Calico Jack Ltd (Dundee), Trinity College Dublin, Thales (Delft), BCN d'Infografia SL (Barcelona), University of Aberdeen, Universiteit Utrecht.
Bath Computer Science seeks two full-time post-doctoral researchers to work on the ALIVE (FP7) project. ALIVE will develop new approaches to service-oriented engineering based on the adaptation and reuse of coordination and organisation mechanisms often seen in human and other societies. Such methods provide robust descriptions of distributed systems, account for the individual autonomous nature of service providers / consumers and define a wide range of strategies and mechanisms with known properties to achieve coherent outcomes. The use
of such human like concepts also provides an opportunity to make the development of complex software systems more accessible to non-specialists, allowing a variety of actors from users to managers to participate more directly in the design and management of systems.
Bath leads the work-package on services, supports on the development of the theoretical framework and contributes to methodology and use cases. Bath's primary domains of expertise that are relevant to this project are (i) specification, verification and on-line reasoning for institutions and (ii) semantic web service description, discovery, brokerage and workflow enactment. The work at Bath will therefore include both theoretical research and prototype development.
QUALIFICATIONS
Applicants should have - or have nearly completed - a PhD in Computer Science or Artificial Intelligence, preferably in connection with agents and organizations. Demonstrated experience of web services and workflow enactment would be an advantage, along with some knowledge of
ontologies, norms and institutions. Successful candidates will be expected to travel frequently to partner sites and spend periods of up to two weeks at a time working there. The working language of the project is English (although there will be the opportunity to practice at least Spanish and Dutch) and so fluency in English is a necessity.
THE POSITIONS
These are full-time positions as post-doctoral researchers for a period of 30 months, starting February 1, 2008 or as soon as possible thereafter. Salary up to £30,012.
FURTHER DETAILS
For further information contact Julian Padget (jap@cs.bath.ac.uk) or Marina De Vos (mdv@cs.bath.ac.uk)
HOW TO APPLY
To find out more about the University of Bath and to apply online please go to http://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs.
Alternatively please email:
jobs@bath.ac.uk
or call 01225 386924 quoting ref number 07H441A. The closing date for applications is January 4th, 2008.
THE UNIVERSITY OF BATH
The University of Bath (http://www.bath.ac.uk) is one of the leading universities in Britain, with highly-rated teaching and research. It is a small, research-oriented university, founded in 1965, with approximately 12,000 students and about 500 permanent members of academic staff. From 1980 to 2000 Computing was a group within the Mathematics department, then became a separate department (of Computer Science) in 2000. There are three undergraduate programs and a portfolio Masters program. Currently, there are 22 permanent staff and
34 PhD students. The department has three research groups: Human Computer Interaction, Mathematical Logic and Symbolic Computation and Media Technology, with activity in Grids, Artificial Intelligence and Agents cutting across all three.
ALIVE PROJECT PARTNERS
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, University of Bath, Calico Jack Ltd (Dundee), Trinity College Dublin, Thales (Delft), BCN d'Infografia SL (Barcelona), University of Aberdeen, Universiteit Utrecht.
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