Postdoctoral Research Fellow Position - Closing 5th June 2008

[John T]

http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/agents/postdocad.pdf

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Keywords : Component Based Architectures, Virtual Agent Dialogue, Java 
Programming

Applications close 5th June 2008

The Intelligent Agents Group in the School of Computer Science and IT at 
RMIT University in Melbourne
Australia is inviting expressions of interest for a 3-year Postdoctoral 
Researcher position, commencing as
soon as possible.

The Postdoctoral Researcher will participate in a new project, 
undertaken with an industry partner, to
design and build agent-based architectures for interactive toys. This is 
a multi-disciplinary international
project, involving researchers from multiple institutions and companies 
in Australia and the USA. The
research goals of the project involve extending current agent-oriented 
architectures to allow easy
extensibility of interactive characters via plug-in components capturing 
emotions and personality, spoken
dialogue capabilities, "experiential memories", etc.. In addition to the 
particular application, the work will
contribute to research on complex modular and component based systems by 
increasing understanding
of how to architect such systems. The industry partner is interested in 
future commercial development of
the project outcomes.

The Postdoctoral Researcher will work with software engineers and other 
project research staff to build
prototypes demonstrating the architectural capabilities, e.g. using 
virtual agents. The Postdoctoral
Researcher will also be encouraged to collaborate with other researchers 
in the Intelligent Agents Group
on work related to that being undertaken in the project.

Key selection criteria:
· demonstrated commitment to quality research and publication
· demonstrated interest in a key research area of the project, including 
(but not limited to):
Architectures for intelligent agents, agent-oriented software 
engineering, embodied
conversational agents, agent emotions and personality.
· demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a research team.

Other desirable criteria:
· solid programming skills, particularly in Java.
· previous experience in a multi-disciplinary project or environment.
· exposure to and interest in BDI-agents.

RMIT has a large computer science department with a well established and 
internationally recognized
research group in the area of Intelligent Agents 
(http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/agents/). Research areas
within the group currently include BDI architectures and planning, Agent 
Oriented Software Engineering,
Open agent systems, and agent reasoning about goals. The group has 4 
permanent staff, 3 postdoctoral
Researchers or Research Associates, 15 PhD students and 4 part-time 
programmers. Melbourne is a hub
for a significant amount of research and development in Intelligent 
Agents and their applications and is
the home of ”Agents Victoria” a group of industry, government and 
university groups, involved in agent
research and applications.

For information regarding how to submit an application for this 
position, go to
http://www.rmit.edu.au/YOURCAREER. (please use internet explorer or safari)
Click onto the Career Search link on the left hand side of the page 
which will take you to the 'Career
Search' page. Enter the position number 443032 in the 'Keyword Search' 
box. You will then be able to
download details of the position as well as obtain information on how to 
submit your application on line
(scroll down the page). Please refer to the 'Frequently asked questions' 
link on the 'Your Career at RMIT'
page which provides details on submitting an online application.

Interested applicants who will be attending AAMAS 2008 in Portugal are 
also encouraged to contact and
meet with Lin Padgham (lin.padgham at rmit.edu.au), or John Thangarajah
(johnt at rmit.edu.au) in regards to this position as they will be at 
AAMAS. You may also contact
them via the conference message board, directly under this flyer at AAMAS.

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Dr. John Thangarajah
RMIT, School of Computer Science and Information Technology
GPO Box 2476v, Melbourne VIC 3001, AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 3 9925 9535 Fax: +61 3 9662 1617
CRICOS provider code: 00122A

http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~johthan/