[agents] Five postdocs at UCD, Dublin.

[Sameh Abdel-Naby]

Apologies for multiple copies

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Dear Colleagues,

The Clarity Centre at the School of Computer Science and Informatics,
University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland, in collaboration with the
Exascale activity of IBM Dublin Research Laboratory is seeking to
appoint a number of Postdoctoral Fellows. (see related URLs at the
end)


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CONTEXT
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As we shift from the Information Age to the Intelligent Age, with the
physical and digital worlds rapidly merging, it is becoming
increasingly viable to envision extreme scale complex socio-technical
systems where devices, networks, models, data, services, applications
and humans are entangled within complex, distributed intelligent
infrastructures.

These fellowships are concerned with the deployment and adoption of
Multi-Agent techniques in exascale computing., addressing such core
issues as: a) How can we design and build complex systems that are
distributed, autonomous, self-organised, adaptable, robust, reliable,
efficient and achieve extreme scalability? b) How can we analyse the
dynamics of such complex systems and understand and predict their
emergent properties and behaviour?


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RESEARCH AREAS
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The positions will be in the following areas:

1. Energy Smart Grids: Multi-agent systems for embedded exascale applications;

2. Agent architectures and design frameworks for exascale embedded applications;

3. Distributed Simulation of Exascale Agent-based Models;

4. Sensor Networks for Exascale Data Driven Applications;

5. Autonomic Management of Exascale Systems;


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FUND & ELIGIBILITY
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These positions will be co-funded by IRCSET and IBM through IRCSET’s
Enterprise Partnership Scheme. Further details on the Enterprise
Partnership Scheme can be found at the provided URLs below.

Applicants must meet IRCSET’s eligibility criteria and will be
assessed independently by IRCSET.

These positions are open to EU and non-EU candidates.

These positions are for 2 years each.

The annual gross salary will be, approximately, € 31,000.


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REQUIREMENTS
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The successful postdoctoral candidate will have a PhD in Computer
Science, Computer Engineering, or a relevant field, and research
publications and research experience in at least one of the following
fields: Multi-Agent Systems, Distributed Artificial Intelligence,
Embedded Systems, Ubiquitous Sensing.

Candidates should be highly research motivated and have a strong
publication ethos. They should show potential for managing a research
program, including setting an agenda and meeting deadlines.


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APPLICATION
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Interested candidates should send their CV and any other supporting
documents by 30th September 2011 to Professor Gregory O'Hare,
Gregory.OHare at ucd.ie and Dr Georgios Theodoropoulos at IBM Dublin
Research Lab geortheo at ie.ibm.com.

For further information, please contact: Professor Gregory O'Hare,
Clarity: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, School of Computer
Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin
4, Ireland, Gregory.OHare at ucd.ie or Dr Georgios Theodoropoulos
geortheo at ie.ibm.com.


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Related URLs:
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http://www.clarity-centre.org/

http://www-05.ibm.com/ie/emerging_business_centre/exascale.html

http://www.ircset.ie/Default.aspx?tabid=58.

http://www.csi.ucd.ie/users/gregory-ohare

http://www.ucd.ie/


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Kind Regards,

Sam.