[agents] Job opportunity @ Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

[Takayuki Ito]

Job Opportunity 
Nagoya Institute of Technology 
Japan

1 Job Title: 
Post-doctoral Researcher, Research Assistant Professor, 
Research Associate Professor, Research Professor

2 Organization: 
School of Computer Science & School of Techno-business administration, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology
NIT Center for Green Computing, Nagoya Institute of Technology

3 Research Project:
Research Project on “Innovating Society Optimization Algorithms that Enable Environmental Society Optimization Simulations, and their Applications” in the Most Advanced and Next Generation Research Development Program. 

Background of research: It is the world-wide most important problem that the existing social systems and mechanisms fail to harness and manage environmental changes. This is because the existing social systems and mechanisms are not *globally* optimized by effectively using computers and networks although many efforts have been done against some *parts* of the social systems and mechanisms has been partially optimized.

Research objectives: This research tackles the grand challenge on establishing multi-agent based computational social mechanism design theories, in which we focus on developing novel social systems and mechanisms that are globally optimized by using computers and networks, and apply them to society simulations and real world applications. 

Research characteristics (incl. originality and creativity): This research tries to enable to construct a globally optimized social systems, which have not been realized yet, by using the pricing mechanisms, the matching mechanisms, and the route optimization mechanisms with the computing power and network infrastructures. 

Anticipated effects and future applications of research: The methodology developed by this research will be able to be applied to complex logistics, smart grids, real time pricing for city transportation with the computing power and network infrastructures. Further, we can anticipate that the result will be applicable to recovering planning systems against huge scale disasters.


4 Contract: 
Basically one year contracts (up to March 31, 2014)　　　

5 Required qualifications:
5.1 Candidates must have the Doctoral degree in computer science or a related field.
5.2 Candidates should have interest on this project, has experience on the following research area and should want to challenge to new research area.
a) Programming and software developments
b) Auction theory, game theory, or mechanism design theory
c) Multi-agent systems and their applications
d) Multi-agent simulation

6 Candidates will be employed from April 1st, 2012 or before. 

7 Required documents and materials:
7.1	Resume
7.2	3 your best papers (or copies)
7.3	Your research description (around 1000 words)	
7.4	Two references

8 Due date: 
When the positions are filled. 

9 Examination:
The selection process proceeds based on the submitted documents, and presentation and interview if necessary. We cannot provide any travel expense for it. 

10 Contact (send the documents to the following):
Takayuki Ito, 
Associate Professor, 
School of Techno-Business Administration / Department of Computer Science, 
Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso, Showaku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan.
TEL : +81-52-735-7968, E-mail : ito.takayuki at nitech.ac.jp

11 How to send the documents:
By e-mail (recommended)
- Convert the documents to PDF files with *** a password ***.
- Send an e-mail which has the subject “Application Forms” and attach the PDF files.
- Send the second e-mail which includes the password. 
- If you do not receive any response, please contact to ito.takayuki at nitech.ac.jp as soon as possible.
By air-mail (not recommended for international candidates)
- Put “Application Form included” in red color on the face of the envelope.
- Be sure to send it as a registered mail.
- We do not return it to you. 

N.I.T. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Personal information will be treated adequately under the private information preserving law and the NIT regulations. But, please understand that some inquiry might be done in order for the selection process.