[agents] PhD Contracts at GTI-IA (UPV), Valencia

[Vicente Julian]

PhD Contracts at GTI-IA (UPV), Valencia

The Grupo de Tecnología Informática – Inteligencia Artificial offers 5 
four-year PhD contracts for students pursuing a full-time PhD degree in 
Artificial Intelligence in the area of multiagent systems. More 
concretely the applicants will work on one or several of the following 
topics:

Multi-agent Systems
Multi-agent Platforms
Normative systems,
Virtual Organizations,
Agreement Planning,
Dataminning,
Trust and reputation methods,
Negotiation
The students will be integrated in a Spanish large project on ‘agreement 
technologies’ involving more than 50 researchers in computer science at 
IIIA-CSIC (Prof. Carles Sierra), Universitat Politècnica de València 
(Prof. Vicent Botti) and University Rey Juan Carlos I (Prof. Sascha 
Ossowski).

The GTI-IA belongs to the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), 
Spain’s largest public University devoted to teaching, research and 
technological development. The GTI-IA is a leading research centre in 
Europe in the areas of multiagent systems (Prof. Vicent Botti and Prof. 
Ana García), planning (Prof. Eva Onaindía), and dataminning (Prof. María 
José Ramirez and Prof. José Hernández-Orallo). It attracts funding from 
the European, Spanish, and Valencian governments and has substantial 
collaborative research projects with industry. The GTI-IA is located in 
the campus of the Autonomous Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) 
and offers university’s master and doctoral studies in artificial 
intelligence.
Requirements
Candidates are required to have a high-quality degree in Computer 
Science (or have completed equivalent qualifications), have good 
communication skills in English, and be able to demonstrate strong 
motivation to conduct research. The candidates must be EU Nationals or 
otherwise have a residence and/or working permit in Spain.
Stipend
The annual salary is 16557EUR per year before taxes and includes health 
insurance. In addition, generous allowances are given to support 
presentation of work at international conferences and to attend seminars 
and tutorials. Contracts are conditional on satisfactory progress, which 
is reviewed every year.
Start date
Start date is 1 april 2008 although it may be possible to start later 
depending on the candidates’ circumstances.
Application
Please fill out the web application form that you will find at
http://www.dsic.upv.es/users/ia/sma/publications/career.php (under 
“Agreement Technologies”) with
• your personal data,
• a short statement, in English, of why you are interested in joining 
IIIA-CSIC,
• a preference for a research topic(s) from the introductory list, if any,
• contact information of one or two persons who are willing to provide 
confidential academic references.
At the same time you will be required to upload a zip-file containing, 
in PDF format,
• a complete CV,
• an academic transcript with grade point average,
• any relevant scientific publications, if applicable.

Closing date for application: 31 March 2008.
For further information visit our website at 
http://www.dsic.upv.es/users/ia/ia.html, or contact Professor Vicent 
Botti (vbotti at dsic.upv.es).