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University of Bath
Research Officer – 2 Posts
Department of Computer Science
Closing date: 06/02/2012
Salary : £30,122 - £32,901
Employment type : Fixed Term contract
Duration: 36 Months from 31st March 2012 until 30th March 2015
Human Autonomous Systems Collective Capability (HASCC)
The successful candidates will be investigating and developing representations,
protocols and technologies for collecting, sharing and interacting
with information and
knowledge. The aim is to enable multiple different, autonomous agencies and
multiple different and differently configured human agencies to work together to
increase the collective capability of the whole human-autonomous
system (HAS) and
achieve their objectives in a safe and efficient manner.
Key scientific challenges that must be addressed are:
1. The capture, abstraction, representation and sharing of knowledge across
diverse and complex groups of, people (commanders, controllers) and
autonomous agents, to improve awareness and understanding;
2. The development of collective decision-making (ie bringing together multiple
independent explorations and assessment of diverse information in different
parts of the collaborative system);
3. The development of agile command and reporting structures across diverse
systems;
4. The development of collective learning that enables commanders, controllers
and agents to responsively assess, learn and where appropriate re-apply novel
behaviour.
This project requires two post-doctoral research officers (Grade 7)
who must hold
PhDs in Computer Science or Human Computer Interaction.
One RO:
- Must be experienced and qualified in the research, implementation and
evaluation of Human computer interaction (HCI) prototypes.
- Must be experienced and qualified in research and implementation of
situation awareness.
- Will be jointly responsible for;
o liaising with industry to acquire requirements and data for situation
awareness and collaboration and collective technologies, and
o the prototyping and evaluation.
The second RO:
- Must be experienced and qualified in the research, implementation and
evaluation of Human computer interaction (HCI) prototypes.
- Must be experienced and qualified in research and implementation of
decision-making software.
- Will be jointly responsible for;
o liaising with industry to acquire requirements and data for decisionmaking
and collaboration and collective technologies, and
o the prototyping and evaluation.
Informal enquiries can be made to Professor Peter Johnson,
Email: [log in to unmask]
The University of Bath values a diverse workforce and welcomes
applications from all
sections of the community.
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