[agents] Postdoc position at UU on agent organizations and web services

[Frank Dignum]

For the European project ALIVE, which is now entering its third and
final year, we look for a postdoc researcher in the area of agent
organisations and web services. The ALIVE projects aims at the
adaptation and reuse of coordination and organization mechanisms often
seen in human and other societies as underlying model for new
generations of software systems.

In specific, the postdoc will work on the modelling and specification of
the adaptation of organizations (that function as /contexts/ for web
services integration). The organizations provide an abstract level of
description of web service functionalities and requirements to enable a
natural representation of the social interactions and dynamic changes in
the web service environment. It should provide robust descriptions of
the distributed system, account for the autonomous nature of the service
providers/consumers and define a wide range of strategies and mechanisms
to keep the system as a whole functioning coherently and robust in
changing circumstances. The work will include both theoretical research
as well as prototype development.

detailed description

A detailed description of the project is available at www.ist-alive.eu.

we ask

Candidates should have a PhD in computer science, artificial
intelligence or related discipline. Experience with multi-agent systems
modelling and implementation is a must. Knowledge of /normative,
ontologic/ and /organizational/ concepts in MAS is important.
Scientific creativity and productivity must be shown by publications in
international journals and conferences within the indicated areas.

we offer

An appointment as /postdoc at the Utrecht University/
The position will be for a period of 12 months starting as soon as
possible.
The salary will be min 2379 and max 3755 euro gross per month (scale 10)
depending on qualifications and experience. The salary is supplemented
with a holiday allowance of 8%, and an end-of year bonus of 3% gross per
year. In addition we offer: partially paid parental leave, subsidy for
child care, flexible employment conditions in which you may trade salary
for vacation days or vice versa. The employment conditions are based on
the Collective Employment Agreement of the Dutch Universities.

Reactions

            Applications with a motivation and CV should be sent
directly to Frank Dignum (e-mail: dignum at cs.uu.nl
<mailto:dignum at cs.uu.nl>), before December 1, 2009.

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e-mail: dignum at cs.uu.nl              *
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