[agents] Two job opportunities at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France

[Gauthier Picard]

Dear colleagues,

I would like to draw your attention to two job opportunities at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France: 
- Associate Professor in computer science
- Full Professor in computer science

Please, find a short description of both jobs below (further information on http://iscod.emse.fr).
Feel free to disseminate this job description to any person you think might be interested in this job opportunity.

Best regards,

Gauthier Picard

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ISCOD/Institut Henri Fayol/Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne (ENSM-SE) 
ENSM-SE (http:://www.emse.fr) is a state-owned institution, placed under the supervision of the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry, member of the Mines Telecom Institute. The school is dedicated to education and research and is closely connected to the development of the corporate world. The Henri Fayol Institute recently opened to federate researches done in industrial engineering, computer science, environment and management around the theme of global company performance. The Henri Fayol Institute is divided into four departments, of which one is dedicated to computer science, with a central theme in Decentralized, Cooperative and Open Systems (ISCOD). The department's research themes focus on knowledge and context for content access, service coordination and adaptation, and trust and privacy in digital society. The main application domains relate to companies’ information systems, Web and ambient computing.

Associate Professor 
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Job description 
The candidate’s primary responsibilities include conducting research in one of the field done in the ISCOD group, assisting in the supervision of PhD students in the field, acquiring external research funding, teaching and developing new education at the undergraduate and graduate levels in Computer Science, and performing department and university management tasks. Important topics of research include, but are not limited to multi-agent systems, semantic web, information retrieval, data mining, trust, security and privacy. We expect the applicant to actively collaborate with other researchers from academia as well as industry to realise this ambition. 

Requirements 
The successful candidate has obtained a PhD in the research field, has proven knowledge and experience in the field, preferably demonstrated through a strong publication record. The candidate is an enthusiastic team player with the ambition to strengthen and expand the research of the ISCOD group. The candidate has experience in providing education at the university level and the ability to obtain research funding through the acquisition of national or international research projects.  

Conditions of employment 
This is a full-time, tenure-track position. In accordance with Ecoles des Mines's teacher status (decree no.2077-468 dated 28 March 2007), the candidates will have a PhD or equivalent recognized qualification with a level at least equivalent to that of the required national diplomas. The candidates must come from a European Union country on the day they submit their application (Law 83-634 dated 13 July 83 on rights and duties of civil servants, Art. 5 and 5bis).

Full Professor
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Job description 
The candidate’s primary responsibilities include conducting research in one of the field of research done in the ISCOD group, supervising PhD students in the field, acquiring external research funding, teaching and developing new education at the undergraduate and graduate levels in Computer Science, and performing department and university management tasks. Important topics of research include, but are not limited to multi-agent systems, semantic web, information retrieval, data mining, trust, security and privacy. Even if the focus is on Trust, security and privacy, candidates developing strong and hight quality research in one of the other fields will be also considered. We expect the applicant to actively collaborate with other researchers from academia as well as industry to realise this ambition. 

Requirements 
The successful candidate has obtained a PhD in the research field, has proven knowledge and experience in the field, preferably demonstrated through a strong publication record. The candidate is an enthusiastic team player with the ambition to strengthen and expand the research of the ISCOD group. The candidate has experience in providing education at the university level and the ability to obtain research funding through the acquisition of national or international research projects.  

Conditions of employment 
This is a full-time, tenure-track position. In accordance with Ecoles des Mines's teacher status (decree no.2077-468 dated 28 March 2007), the candidates will hold an authorization to lead research or any equivalent level of qualification in the case of a candidate coming from a foreign university.
The candidates must come from a European Union country on the day they submit their application (Law 83-634 dated 13 July 83 on rights and duties of civil servants, Art. 5 and 5bis).


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Information and application for both positions:
For more information about this position, please contact Prof. dr. O. Boissier, phone: +33 (0)477-426-614, e-mail:olivier.boissier at emse.fr or X. Olagne (Head of Henri Fayol Institute), phone: +33 (0) 477-42-118, email: olagne at emse.fr

To apply, please send letters of application, together with a CV stating teaching activities, research work and possibly relations with the business world (10 pages max.), along with reference letters (optional). It shall be addressed to Monsieur le Directeur de l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines by 15 May 2012 at the latest, date as per postmark., and sent to the following address:
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne to the attention of Fabienne DEMEURE, Service Ressources Humaines, 158 Cours Fauriel, 42023 Saint-Etienne Cedex 2 France, phone: +33 (0) 477-420-264, email: demeure at emse.fr


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Gauthier PICARD
Associate Professor, PhD

Cooperative, Open and Decentralized Systems team (ISCOD)
Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (LIST)
Institut Henri Fayol
École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (ENSM.SE)
158 cours Fauriel - 42023 Saint-Étienne Cedex 02 - FRANCE

phone : +33 (0)4 77 42 66 84
picard at emse.fr
http://www.emse.fr/~picard
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