Positions available at IRST - Trento, Italy

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Stage/Ph.D. Positions Available



Automated Support for Service Oriented Applications



Service-Oriented Applications Research Group

IRST

Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Trento, Italy



Deadlines: Oct. 15, 2007; Nov. 30, 2007; Apr. 30,
2008



The Service Oriented Applications (SOA) Research Group, part of the

Center for Scientific and Technological Research (IRST) of the Bruno

Kessler Foundation in Trento, Italy (http://www.fbk.eu/irst), is

seeking candidates for three stage/Ph.D. positions. The Ph.D. will be

held at the International Doctorate School in Information and

Communication Technologies (http://www.ict.unitn.it/) of the

University of Trento, Italy.



The activity will be carried out in Trento, and will aim at the design

and development of methodologies and support tools for the automated

integration, and the run-time checking of distributed services. In

particular, the stages/Ph.D. will focus on the following topics:

- automated resource-based composition of business processes

- self-adapting service orchestration

- assumption-based service monitoring and adaptation



Candidates will be initially enrolled in a stage and, if they pass the

selection of the Ph.D. school, they will be enrolled as

Ph.D. students. Ph.D. courses will start in Autumn 2008, and the

thesis must be completed in three or four years. People enrolled in a

stage and subsequent Ph.D. courses are expected to move to Trento, and

will receive monetary support during both phases of their activity.



Candidate Profile

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The ideal candidate should have a MS or equivalent in computer

science, mathematics or electronic engineering, and combine solid

theoretical background and software development skills.



The candidate should be able to work in a collaborative environment,

with a strong commitment to achieving assigned objectives and reaching

research excellence.



Background knowledge and/or previous experience in the areas of

Service-Oriented Architectures, Enterprise Application Integration,

Automated Planning and Software Synthesis, and Semantic Web Service,

though not mandatory, will be considered favourably.



Presentation and Inquiries

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Candidates interested in the above positions should introduce

themselves and inquire for further information by sending email to

<jobs@xxxxxx>. Please use 'SOA PHD' as subject, and include a
statement

of interest and a CV. PostScript or PDF formats are encouraged.



The SOA Research Group

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Led by Paolo Traverso and Marco Pistore, the Service Oriented

Applications Research Group consists of over 15 persons, including

researchers, Ph.D., post-Doc, and programmers, doing research in the

field of service oriented computing, web services, and distributed

business processes.



The research of the group focuses in particular on the development of

techniques and tools that enact the effective, reliable, low-cost, and

time-efficient composition and monitoring of distributed business

processes through web service technologies. The pioneering research

performed by the SOA group in this area is widely recognized to be

state-of-the-art for what concerns advanced methodologies and

automated support tools for the design and execution of distributed

web processes. Such results are embedded within the ASTRO platform

(http://www.astroproject.org/), which includes and integrates tools

for service composition, verification, execution, and

monitoring. Current research directions of the unit include user

centric service composition (i.e., the composition and enactment of

available services to fulfill specific requirements of the end-user)

and evolution and adaptation of service compositions through autonomic

mechanisms and aspect-oriented design approaches.



The group is currently involved in several research projects, as well

as in industrial projects aiming at applying the research results of

the group to key application domains such as Telco, e-government,

and logistics.



Location

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Trento is a lively town of about 100.000 inhabitants, located about
130

km south of the border between Italy and Austria. It is well known for

the beauty of its mountains and lakes, and it offers the possibility

to practice a wide range of sports. Trento enjoys a rich cultural and

historical heritage, and it is the ideal starting point for day trips

to famous towns such as Venice or Verona, as well as to enjoy great

naturalistic journeys. Detailed information about Trento and its

region can be found at http://www.trentino.to/home/index.html?_lang=en
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Contact Person

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* Marco Pistore

mailto: pistore@xxxxxx

http://astroproject.org/pistore

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