Salford University CENTRE FOR VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS Please ex use multiple copies of this advert and circulate it to anyone you know who might be interested. Ruth Aylett ----------- Wanted urgently: Researcher in AI Planning ******************************************* "Planform" is a new EPSRC-funded joint research project, due to start September 1999, in the area of Artificial Intelligence Planning. It is led by the Universities of Huddersfield, Durham and Salford, and backed by the UK National Air Traffic Services, and Cogsys Ltd. The project will bring together the considerable expertise of the research teams at these three Universites, in order to solve some fundamental problems to do with planning algorithm and planning domain model representation and will develop a toolkit to enable an AI planner to be applied easily to new domains. A vacancy exists at Salford for a researcher to work on this exciting, world class project. The successful candidate will have a higher degree in an area of Artificial Intelligence allied to Planning, or an equivalent research record. He/she will posses good communication skills and be prepared to travel, and work as part of a team. The project is funded for 26 months and the post pays up to 20,867 pounds/year. If you are interested, please send you CV to Ruth Aylett ([log in to unmask] - web page http://www.salford.ac.uk/iti/rsa/aylett.html) _as soon as possible_. ASCII, MSWord, postscript or pdf please. The Centre for Virtual Environments is a leading centre for research in virtual environments in the UK - see http://www.salford.ac.uk/cve/ for further information. ----------- Ruth Aylett email: [log in to unmask] phone: 44-161-295-2912 Home page: http://www.salford.ac.uk/iti/rsa/aylett.html fax: 44-161-295-2925 Centre for Virtual Environments, Business House, University of Salford, Salford, M5 4WT, UK 'Life is beautiful.' %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%