The
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS INSTITUTE
is recruiting for a post officially designated as a
COMPUTING OFFICER
which will require skills in
KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING and/or SOFTWARE MODELLING of ORGANISATIONS
to work on a joint project to construct an
AIR OPERATIONS ENTERPRISE MODEL

This post will be for a duration of 12 months; the project, and the post, may be
extended  for a further 6 months subject to further funding.

Description:

The Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute, part of the Division of
Informatics within the University of Edinburgh, is a technology transfer
organisation that promotes the real-world application of research in artificial
intelligence.

The successful applicant will be working full time on the Air Operations
Enterprise Modelling project: the aim of this project is to develop a software
representation and simulation of the enterprise processes that occur in a JFACC
(Joint Forces Air Component Commander)’s organisation during military air
operations.  AIAI’s work packages form part of an overall effort from several
organisations, co-ordinated by BBN Technologies.  This project comprises part of
AIAI’s applied research into knowledge management and knowledge engineering.
The applicant’s work will assist and will be assisted by a senior staff member
who will be spending 25% of his time on the project to assist in carrying out
the work packages (listed on a separate sheet).  The successful applicant should
have most or all of the following skills or characteristics:

- Familiarity and experience with process modelling techniques, especially
organisational processes;
- Familiarity with rule-based and/or object-oriented programming;
- Interest or experience in knowledge representation, knowledge management, and
knowledge capture;
- Interest or experience in presenting short commercial training courses;
- Generally motivated, capable of self supervision, and of setting goals and
meeting deadlines.

The successful candidate would be expected to undertake a few trips to the USA.

A good honours degree or equivalent in computing (or a similar subject) is
essential.  A post-graduate qualification in Artificial Intelligence or Computer
Science is preferred.  Experience equivalent to an honours degree may be
accepted if the candidate can demonstrate exceptional abilities on the skills
and characteristics listed above.  Experience with “expert system” programming
tools would be an advantage.

Salary range: The appointment will be made within the AD1 to AD2 salary scales,
currently £15,735 to £23,651 (under review).  Placing will not normally exceed
AD2 point 1 (£18,275)

Please quote ref: 776677

Further particulars including details of the application procedure and closing
dates should be obtained from the Personnel Department, 1 Roxburgh Street,
Edinburgh EH8 9TB or Tel: 0131-650-2511 (24 hour answering service). Additional
information will be available on the Personnel Department web page,
http://www.personnel.ed.ac.uk/recruit.htm). If these pages are not available for
any reason, further details of the work can be obtained from
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~jkk/aoem-job.html. Any queries not covered by the
above information may be directed by e-mail or telephone to Deirdre Burke,
[log in to unmask], 0131 650 2732.

N.B. The closing date is likely to be in early September 1999.




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