[agents] vacancy for Postdoc on Agent Systems, Dynamic Planning, and Logistics.

[Han La Poutre]

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam has a vacancy in the “Intelligent and Autonomous Systems” research group for an excellent 

        Postdoc

on the subject of Agent Systems, Dynamic Planning, and Logistics.


Job description
The research is part of a larger project, Scalable Interoperabiliy in Information Systems for Agile Supply Chains (SIISASC). The overall objective of SIISASC is to create pipeline interoperability in supply chains based on a federated approach, in which autonomous entities (e.g. organizations) are able to dynamically (re)plan their logistics activities. The project is in cooperation with TU Delft, TNO, and the companies Descartes and LogIT Systems. The project consists of fundamental research with an eye on applications and is carried out together with the partners. The project is funded by NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research). 

The project objective is realized by doing research in three domains, on which a PhD student and two postdocs work. The domain of research for the current postdoc at CWI is that of dynamic planning, which investigates the (re)planning of activities in multi-agent logistic networks while the network may partly change in composition. Dynamic planning considers a goal to be reached (e.g. transport of cargo from the Far East to somewhere in Europe), without completely orchestrating all potential providers for reaching that goal. The research into dynamic planning interleaved with process orchestration and sharing customer goals and providing capabilities (i.e. capacities) in controlled communities is expected to contribute to synchro-modality and agile supply chains. The stepwise approach allows (re)planning of activities thus allowing supply chain agility.

Further information:
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