Postdoc Position "Coordination Web Services" - EU-FP7 Project ALIVE

[Virginia Dignum]

Postdoc Coordination Web Services (1,0 fte)
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Job description
For the European project ALIVE (Coordination, Organisation and Model
Driven Approaches for Dynamic, Flexible, Robust Software and Services
Engineering), we are looking for one postdoctoral researcher in the area
of agent organisations and web services. The ALIVE projects aims at the
adaptation and reuse of coordination and organization mechanisms often
seen in human and other societies as underlying model for new
generations of software systems.

The postdoctoral researcher will work on the modelling and specification
of contexts for web services integration. Such contexts provide an
abstract level of description of web service functionalities and
requirements to enable a natural representation of the social
interactions and dynamic changes in the web service environment. It
should provide robust descriptions of the distributed system, account
for the autonomous nature of the service providers/consumers and define
a wide range of strategies and mechanisms to keep the system as a whole
functioning coherently and robust in changing circumstances. The work
will include both theoretical research as well as prototype development.

A detailed description of the project is available on request.
Information on the department: http://www.cs.uu.nl/research

Qualifications
Candidates should have a PhD in Computer Science, Artificial
Intelligence or related discipline. Experience with multi-agent systems
modelling and implementation is a must. Knowledge of normative, onto
logic and organizational concepts in MAS is important.
Scientific creativity and productivity must be shown by publications in
international journals and conferences within the indicated areas.

Terms of employment
A fulltime position as a postdoctoral researcher for a period of 30
months starting by 1 February 2008. The salary will be min. € 2,279.-
and max € 3,597.- gross per month (scale 10) depending on qualifications
and experience. The salary is supplemented with a holiday allowance of
8%, and an end-of year bonus of 3% gross per year. In addition we offer:
partially paid parental leave, subsidy for child care, flexible
employment conditions in which you may trade salary for vacation days or
vice versa. The employment conditions are based on the Collective
Employment Agreement of the Dutch Universities

Further details
For more information contact Dr Virginia Dignum, virginia at cs.uu.nl or Dr
Frank Dignum, dignum at cs.uu.nl

How to apply
To apply, please send your application in writing, including a
curriculum vitae, list of publications and minimal two references before
7 December 2007 to the Personnel Department of the Faculty of Science,
Budapestlaan 6, 3584 CD Utrecht, The Netherlands, or submit by e-mail to
science.PenO at uu.nl.

Please cite vacancy number 62722.

Faculty of Science
The Faculty of Science consists of six departments: Biology,
Pharmaceutical Sciences, Information and Computing Sciences, Physics and
Astronomy, Chemistry and Mathematics. The Faculty is home to 3500
students and nearly 2000 staff and is internationally renowned for the
quality of its research. The Faculty's academic programmes reflect
developments in today's society.

Publication date: 08-11-2007