[agents] PhD Position: Research Assistant in Software Agents for Model Based Diagnosis

[Kostas Stathis]

Royal Holloway

University of London

Department of Computer Science

Research Assistant in Software Agents for Model Based Diagnosis

20 hours per week

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/Salary is in the range //£15,144 to £17,846per annum inclusive //of 
London Allowance.Which is pro rata the full time salary range of £26,504 
to £31,233 per annum inclusive of London Allowance/

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Applications are invited for a fully funded 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 BSc/MSc degree in Computer Science, Cognitive Science, 
Electrical Engineering, or a cognate discipline, and you should ideally 
have previous experience in some of the following areas: artificial 
intelligence, knowledge representation, machine learning/data mining and 
distributed systems. Programming skills is a requirement and experience 
with Prolog a plus.

The contract will be for a period of up to 34 months. The successful 
applicant will be able to work 20 hours per week and is expected to 
register for an MPhil/PhD degree.

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: X1011/6694

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