Would you like to join a team of interesting, motivated and hard- working people doing cutting edge research on autonomous distributed systems? In a unique collaboration on “Web service agreement negotiation and management in large scale autonomous distributed systems”, between the IIDS group at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Man Machine Interaction Group at the University of Delft and Thales Research and Technology in the Netherlands, your focus will be on web service agreement negotiation and risk assessment (including approximation of dynamic, negotiation spaces). Simulations of large scale negotiation in domains of application such as crisis management, will be used for evaluation. Different policies, mechanisms, and protocols will be proposed, implemented and compared.
Requirements
We are looking for an outstanding candidate with a MSc degree in Computer Science or Artificial Intelligence. Knowledge of distributed systems and an interest in negotiation and autonomic systems in addition to above described requirements work to your advantage.
Appointment
The appointment will be initially for 1 year. If the results are successful the appointed period will be prolonged for in totally 4 years, intended to result in a dissertation. You can visit our website www.vu.nl/vacatures for a review of working conditions at the VU.
Salary
Gross monthly salary starts at € 2.000,- in the first year and increases to € 2.558,- in the last year of the appointment, based on a fulltime employment.
Information and application
For more information about the IIDS group please see the IIDS website: www.iids.org. For more information about the position, please contact Professor Dr. Frances Brazier at frances@cs.vu.nl. Please send your application and CV, mentioning the vacancy number in the e-mail header or at the upper left corner of the letter and envelope, before March 24th, 2008 to VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Science, department of Computer Science, Prof. Dr. F.M.T. Brazier, De Boelelaan 1083, 1081 HV Amsterdam, or by email to few-vacatures@few.vu.nl.
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