[agents] Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Software Agents for Model Based Diagnosis

[Kostas Stathis]

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Royal Holloway

University of London

Department of Computer Science

Postdoctoral Researcher in Software Agents for Model Based Diagnosis

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/Salary is in the range //£32,106 to £37,922 per annum inclusive //of 
London Allowance./

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Applications are invited for a fully funded Post-doctoral research 
position to work on the COMMODITY12 project, an EU funded project aiming 
to design, build, and validate an intelligent system for the analysis of 
multi-parametric medical data about diabetes and cardio-vascular 
disease. The project will integrate state-of-the-art sensor networks, 
software interoperation, and artificial intelligence techniques in order 
to realize the concept of translational medicine by means of a Personal 
Health System. Work at Royal Holloway involves building an artificial 
intelligence layer to deploy logic-based agents applying diagnostic 
reasoning to the patient's condition related to diabetes and 
cardiovascular co-morbidities.

You should have a PhD ideally or be near completion of your PhD in 
Computer Science or similar.Research experience in Computer Science, 
Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, or a cognate discipline, and should 
ideally have a strong background in some of the following areas: 
computational logic, knowledge representation, model-based diagnostic 
reasoning and machine learning. Good programming skills of Prolog is a 
requirement and experience with agent-oriented programming a plus.

The contract will be for a period of up to 34 months.

The post is based in Egham in Surrey.

Further details and an application form are available to download 
athttp://www.rhul.ac.uk/jobs/home.aspx or by contacting the Recruitment 
Team by email: recruitment at rhul.ac.uk 
<http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Personnel/JobVacancies.htm> or tel: 01784 414241

Please quote the reference: X1011/6695

Closing date:12 noon 14^th November 2011

/The College is committed to equality and diversity, and encourages 
applications fromall sections of the community./

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Kostas Stathis                        kostas.stathis at rhul.ac.uk
Department of Computer Science        +44(0)1784 443698 (Tel)
Royal Holloway, University of London  +44(0)1784 439786 (Fax)
Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK            http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/~kostas