[agents] Post-doc positions at the University of Southampton

[Enrico Gerding]

2 POST-DOCTORAL/RESEARCH FELLOW POSITIONS

Agents, Interaction & Complexity Group
University of Southampton

*Closing Date: * Wednesday 18 December 2013

Applications are invited for two Research Fellows in the Agents, 
Interaction and Complexity (AIC) Group in Electronics and Computer 
Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton, UK. These positions are 
for a 1-year period in the first instance, with possible extension to 2 
years. You  will be working on an EPSRC-funded digital economy project 
(EP/K039989/1 
<http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/K039989/1>) with 
an interdisciplinary team consisting of researchers from Economics, 
Management and Computer Science.

The project, led by Prof m.c. schraefel, is seeking to understand the 
specific obstacles to, and mechanisms for, embodying *meaningful 
consent* in the digital economy. Despite being asked to "agree" 
constantly to terms of service, we do not currently have "meaningful 
consent", in particular with regards to privacy.  The project aims to 
understand issues surrounding informed consent, develop technologies for 
enabling informed consent, as well as considering business and policy 
implications.

The two posts have a different focus. One post will focus on the 
*socio-economic* aspects of understanding consent, and issues 
surrounding privacy, through *experimental design* with human 
participants. It will also involve work on outlining design principles 
and HCI best practice in relation to obtaining informed consent. You 
will be working directly with *Dr Michael Vlassopoulos* and *Dr Mirco 
Tonin* from the Economics division, as well as being part of a larger 
interdisciplinary team. This position requires a PhD or equivalent 
professional qualifications and experience in one of the following 
disciplines: computer science, human-computer interaction, experimental 
economics, or web science. In addition, programming and statistical 
skills are essential. Prior experience with setting up human trials is 
desired but not essential.

The other post will focus on technologies for enabling informed consent, 
and in particular *agent-based systems* and *automated negotiation*. You 
will be working directly with *Dr Enrico Gerding* from the Agents, 
Interaction and Complexity Research Group, as well as being part of a 
larger interdisciplinary team. A PhD or equivalent professional 
qualifications and experience are required in agent-based computing or 
artificial intelligence.

The starting date is the beginning of February 2014, although 
consideration can be given to later start dates.

Informal enquiries may be made to  Dr Michael Vlassopoulos  
(M.Vlassopoulos at soton.ac.uk 
<mailto:M.Vlassopoulos at soton.ac.uk?subject=inquiry%20about%20research%20fellow%20position>) 
for the position with the socio-economic focus, or Dr Enrico Gerding 
(eg at ecs.soton.ac.uk 
<mailto:eg at ecs.soton.ac.uk?subject=inquiry%20about%20research%20fellow%20position>) 
for the one with the agent-based focus.

For further details and application please go to:

https://www.jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=319413FP

Enrico Gerding

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Dr. Enrico Gerding
Lecturer

Agents, Interaction and Complexity Group	Tel: +44 23 8059 9201
Electronics & Computer Science			Fax: +44 23 8059 2865
University of Southampton			
Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK			

email: eg at ecs.soton.ac.uk
www:  http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~eg