Fw: PhD-position Plan Coordination TU-Delft

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> 1 PhD Student in Plan Coordination for Multi-agent Systems (Computer
> Science / Artificial Intelligence)
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> Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering,
> Mathematics and Computer Science
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> ++ Job description ++
> There exists a vacancy for a Ph.D. student position (AIO) in a joint
> project “Task Coordination for Non-cooperative Agents”, to be carried
> out at both the Faculty of Engineering, Mathematics and Computer
> Science (EWI) of TU-Delft, and in the Theme Group “Computational
> Intelligence and Multi-agent Games” of CWI Amsterdam.
> The project is funded by NWO, the Dutch Organization for Scientific
> Research.
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> The aim of this project is to address task coordination problems in
> multi-agent systems that arise if a complex task consisting of a set
> of interrelated subtasks has to be solved by a number of non-
> cooperative actors (self-interested agents or competitive companies).
> Typical examples are multi-modal transportation problems, where
> different transportation companies are involved in bringing goods and/
> or passengers to their destinations, and patient health care systems,
> where a sequence of treatments has to be assigned to different
> parties. The research can be characterized as fundamental with a
> clear eye on the applications.
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> The PhD student at TU-Delft will concentrate on Plan coordination
> methods for complex tasks. Plan coordination methods are required
> whenever a complex task has to be performed by several planning
> agents each taking responsibility for a subset of the total set of
> tasks. Since in a complex task, several dependencies exist between
> the subtasks, these dependencies are distributed among the agents,
> preventing them to plan autonomously. The idea of the research
> project is to come up with algorithms and heuristics to identify and
> to distribute suitable constraints that can to be added to the
> complex task such that autonomous planning is ensured.
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> Keywords are distributed planning, coordination, self-interested
> systems.
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> ++ Project ++
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> In the project two PhD’s (CWI-Amsterdam and TU-Delft) will cooperate
> on the problem how to interleave the plan coordination and task
> allocation process, in order to find less costly solutions to the
> problem, and they will apply these methods in a multi-modal
> transportation as well as a patient-health care case.
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> ++ Requirements ++
> Required education/skills: University Graduate. Candidates are
> expected to have a university degree (MSc) in computer science,
> artificial intelligence, economics, or similar discipline; good
> communication skills, in written as well as spoken English. He or she
> must be open-minded and capable of working independently and in a
> small team. Job type(s): Ph.D. students, research trainees, non-
> tenured lecturers, researchers (Scientific expertise: Computer Science)
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> ++ Organization ++
> Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering,
> Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
> website: http://www.tudelft.nl
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> ++ Conditions of employment ++
> Maximum salary amount in Euro's a month: 2394.
> Employment basis: Temporary for specified period
> Duration of the contract: Period of 4 years
> Maximum hours per week: 38
> Additional conditions of employment: According Collective Labour
> Agreement
> (CAO) Dutch Universities.
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> ++ Additional Information ++
> Additional information about the vacancy can be obtained from:
> Dr. Cees Witteveen, TU-Delft,
> Tel. +31 (0)15 278 2521
> Email: C.Witteveen@tudelft.nl
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> ++ Application ++
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> You can apply for this job before April 1, 2005 by sending your
> application to:
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> Delft University of Technology
> Faculty EEMCS
> attn: Dr. C. Witteveen
> Mekelweg 4
> 2628 CD Delft
> The Netherlands
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Received on Tue Feb 21 07:43:12 2006