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Research Fellows/ Research Assistants (2-3 posts) 
(Ref: T204)
"Ambient, Personalised, and Context-sensitive Info Systems for Mobile Users "
(2 / 2.5 - Year Fixed Term)

The AmbieSense project is a 30-month large European R&D project funded by the 
Information Society Technologies (IST) R&D programme of the EU. The goal of IST 
is to implement future and emerging information society technologies for the 
European citizens and businesses. The AmbieSense project is one of the important 
projects that will achieve this goal.

The EU-IST AmbieSense project (IST-2001-34244) aims to use information about the 
surroundings together with individual user context information to develop 
leading edge personalised interactive services for mobile users. One key project 
objective is to build intelligent agents that are mobile and distributed in 
order to support users' mobile info spaces. Multi-agent and context-sensitive 
technology are of key concern. These agents will help users to get relevant 
information in the right situation/context. The application domain is ambient, 
personalised and context-sensitive info services for business travellers and 
tourists. The ambient technology will be tested and evaluated with real mobile 
users at an international airport and in a large European city. Tourist 
information, infotainment and XML-based electronic maps will be put together on 
mobile and wireless computers that the users carry with them whilst on the move.

Keywords: ambient/ ubiquitous computing, intelligent agents, personalisation, 
context-aware applications, human-centred computing.

Total budget of the project is 5 million Euro.

The project partners include:
* Robert Gordon University (RGU),  
* SINTEF Telecom and Informatics, 
* Reuters Ltd, 
* Lonely Planet Ltd, 
* Oslo Airport, 
* Siemens AG,
* CognIT AS, 
* Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 
* Seville Global, 
* YellowMap AG. 

The Robert Gordon University's role in project is to:

* contribute to intelligent agents for acquiring user profiles for contexts;
* implement information sharing and distribution;
* creating models and user techniques for specifying contextual information;
* demonstrating personalisation of info systems;
* liase with content providers.

The School of Computing has a reputation for high quality and innovative 
research in design and development of Intelligent Systems and developing 
Interactive Systems. The Information Retrieval Group focuses on the effective 
delivery and presentation of information and the end-user service. The groups' 
work bridges the two larger groupings of Intelligent and Interactive Systems. 
These research strengths are brought together in the new Smart Web Technologies 
Centre which will investigate intelligent computing technologies and apply these 
to new types of web-based systems and services. 

The successful candidate will have good development skills and 
knowledge/experience of at least 2 (for RA post) or 3 (for RF post) of the 
following: mobile computing, agents and multi-agent architecture, information 
retrieval, personalisation, machine learning.

Experience in the following would be an advantage: 
* information/text processing, 
* web-based applications, 
* modeling and design, 
* knowledge of relevant standards.

The successful candidate for the RF post should have a PhD in Computer Science 
or any cognate discipline or 3-5 years' equivalent experience in research and 
development.

The successful candidate for the RA post will have a degree or equivalent in 
Computer Science or any cognate discipline, and may have the opportunity to 
pursue an MPhil/PhD within this field.

Further details available on: 
http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/staff/asga/ambiesense
(includes pdf version of advertisement)

Other relevant links:
* http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/research/ir
* http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/smartweb/
* http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/staff/asga/

Informal enquiries to the project leader: Dr. Ayse Goker, Senior Lecturer, 
School of Computing, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen AB25 1HG, Scotland, UK, 
Tel: +44 (0) 1224-262713, Email: [log in to unmask]
Candidates are encouraged to declare their intention to apply to the project 
leader, as soon as possible.

Formal Applications to: Human Resources Department, The Robert Gordon 
University, Schoolhill, Aberdeen AB10 1FR, Tel: +44-1224-262085, 
[log in to unmask]
http://www.rgujobs.ac.uk/
(Applicants are also encouraged to send a CV with their application forms).

Salary - 
Research Fellow:  up to £26491
Research Assistant: up to £19681

CLOSING DATE: 18 APRIL, 2002