[agents] Postdoctoral Researcher 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 //£32,256 to £38,072 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.

Please complete an online application and provide your CV with details 
of any publications, Covering letter of why you wish to apply for this post.

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: X0112/6695

Closing date:midnight 9^th February 2012

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