FYI
Five post doc positions in Software Engineering and Computer Engineering
Blekinge Institute of Technology
Sweden
Further information for applicants and application material is available online from: http://www.bth.se/jobb (in English, look for last application date 2011-01-17):
Software Engineering (more information below):
Post doc (“Large-scale”), registration number 426-1171-2010
Post doc (“Innovation”), registration number 426-1172-2010
Post doc (“Value”), registration number 426-1173-2010
Post doc (“SBSE”), registration number 426-1174-2010
Computer Systems Engineering (more information below)
Post doc (“Multicore”), registration number 426-1175-2010
About us
The five positions are placed with the Software Engineering Research Laboratory (four positions) and the Communication and Computer Systems
Laboratory (one position) within the School of Computing at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden. We have a long tradition in software
engineering with the first educational program in the area being introduced in 1990. Over the years the research in software engineering has been
expanded and strengthened. The research environment is highly international with researchers and PhD students from more than 20 countries.
The environment is ranked as number six among the top institutions in the world in systems and software engineering by the Journal of Systems and
Software based on publications from 2004 to 2008. Furthermore, Blekinge Institute of Technology is one out of four universities in Europe being
engaged in an Erasmus Mundus master program in software engineering. This is the only software engineering program approved for funding by the
European Commission as part of Erasmus Mundus.
The research environment is a member of the International Software Engineering Research Network and strongly positioned in empirical software
engineering research. The laboratory has received funding from Swedish funding agencies, the European Union and industry. The close industrial
collaboration provides very good opportunities to address industrially relevant research challenges and to work actively with industrial partners.
The research project is led by Professor Claes Wohlin who is the recipient of the prestigious Telenor Nordic Research Prize for his contributions to
software reliability for telecommunication systems.
We are now looking for five strong candidates for a research project to start at the latest June 1, 2011. The post doc positions are for two years.
For post doc positions, a doctoral exam is required. The successful candidate should either have a PhD degree or be expected to finish such a
degree before June 1, 2011. Candidates are expected to have a PhD in software engineering, computer science or computer systems engineering or
another relevant area for the positions. Research and experience from the announced areas is a strong merit as well as ability to conducting research
across several areas. Strong international publications will be highly valued. Ability to write and present research in English is very important for the positions. Furthermore, experience from working with industry is highly valued since the research is expected to be conducted together with industry. The position will include both research (70%) and teaching (30%). Teaching may be conducted in Swedish or English.
The positions are within the following five areas.
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Area 1 (Large-scale) Large-scale Industrial Software Development (registration number 426-1171-2010)
Large-scale industrial software development requires taking many different perspectives into account such as business, architecture, processes and
organization. All too often research is devoted to improve one of these perspectives. Here the aim is to focus on the tradeoff and balance between
perspectives in order to achieve the targeted industrial benefits. The research is directed towards overcoming the challenges of, for example 1)
defining a software architecture that is suitable for global software development, and 2) making sure that the importance of different qualities are clear and that they are visible in the software processes and aligned with the business objectives. Since most projects nowadays are global ventures either through outsourcing or offshoring, the research is intended to support alignment among the mentioned perspectives in particular in the light of global software development.
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Area 2 (Innovation) – Software as Practical Innovation Driver (registration number 426-1172-2010)
This research has two main tracks. First the aim is to enable large-scale and continuous innovation of organizations developing software intensive
products. This can involve research into processes, methods, techniques, metrics, and tools to enable an innovation infrastructure. The second track
is more exploratory, involving theory as well as empirical investigations of how software (e.g. in embedded products) can be used and optimized to be a driver of innovation. The work will demand the utilization of theories and practices from several subject areas, spanning from engineering to economics and management.
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Area 3 (Value) – Software Value (registration number 426-1173-2010)
The concept of value in relation to software is subject to scrutiny and evolution, and a new view on value based product development is at the core
of this research area. The work is a continuation of work performed to create a generic software value map, and specific value patterns as a support tool for development of software and embedded products. The work was and will be conducted in close collaboration with industry and will be a
cross area research initiative, spanning from technical, architectural, management and business aspects, all needed for the establishment and calculation of value as a multifaceted concept going beyond today’s views.
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Area 4 (SBSE) – Search-based Software Engineering (registration number 426-1174-2010)
Search-based software engineering (SBSE) is an approach to apply metaheuristic search techniques like genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and tabu search to software engineering problems. It is inspired by the observation that many activities in software engineering can be formulated as optimization problems. Due to the computational complexity of these problems, exact optimization techniques of operations research, like linear
programming, are mostly impractical for large scale software engineering problems. In this project we will, for the first time ever, apply SBSE to large scale software engineering problems as found in industrial projects.
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Area 5 (Multicore) Verification and Testing of Parallel Programs for Multicore Systems (registration number 426-1175-2010)
Verification and testing of programs constitutes a significant portion of the software development time, and the entrance of multicore processors has
pronounced this. Parallel programs generate new types of problems that are timing dependent, e.g., concurrent access of shared data, different
execution orders, and transient bugs (aka “Heisenbugs”), which may be very hard to reproduce and debug. In particular shared data access is a source of correctness problems. Previous approaches to address the problems above include, e.g., formal methods, static and dynamic analysis methods, and automatic testing. The idea is to complement existing methods with methods, techniques and tools for dynamic tracing, deterministic re-execution, low-overhead on-the-fly recording, and combinations of static and dynamic analysis. Further, we are also interested in alternative methods for protecting shared data, e.g., transactional memory.
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For more information:
Formal announcement and procedures for applying (look for last application
date 2011-01-17): http://www.bth.se/jobb
Research groups: http://www.bth.se/tek/serl and http://www.bth.se/com/ccs
Links to our programs and courses can be found through the above pages.
Please do not send ANY application or documents to the contact persons below they cannot formally accept applications. Send your full application to the registrar, [log in to unmask]
Contact person who can provide further information about the positions:
Conny Johansson (Head of School) +46-(0)455-385824, [log in to unmask]
or
Prof. Claes Wohlin +46-(0)455-385820, [log in to unmask]
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