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)
School of Computing
The Robert Gordon University
Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
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
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