[agents] posdoc positions available on smart transportation 4 smart cities

[Ana Bazzan]

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TWO POSTDOC POSITIONS AVAILABLE AT INF-UFRGS (Brazil)
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Two postdoc positions are available at the Institute of
Informatics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (http://www.inf.ufrgs.br  ), in Porto Alegre, Brazil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto_Alegre).

These positions refer to a project on Smart Transportation for Smart Cities. In summary, the goal is to investigate the effects caused by inter-vehicular communication (V2V), on the travel times and congestion. Ideally, the applicant should have expertise related multiagent systems, to development of routing algorithms, and VANET (though this is not mandatory).

Skype interviews can be conducted and the position is to be filled immediately.
The fellowship stipend is R$ 3300 mensais (around US$ 2000, which is 4 times the minimum wage in Brazil).

Please reply to this message if interested. Also, please feel free to forward it if you know somebody who might be interested.

Best,
Ana Bazzan

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Ana Lucia C. Bazzan, PhD
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul  -  Instituto de Informatica
Av. Bento Goncalves 9500, bloco IV -  Caixa Postal 15064
91501-970 Porto Alegre RS - Brasil
Voice +55 51 3308 6823  -  Fax +55 51 3308 7308
bazzan at inf.ufrgs.br     -  www.inf.ufrgs.br/~bazzan

  "Bad driving [...] tends to exist in inverse ratio to democratic institutions. In an authoritarian state, the only place where the little man achieves equality with the big is in heavy traffic. Only there can he actually overtake." (Kenneth Tynan -- British playwright)