- From: Bicarregui, JC (Juan) <J.C.Bicarregui@rl.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 16:19:45 +0100
- To: "'www-ws-arch@w3.org'" <www-ws-arch@w3.org>
Please see: http://www.cclrc.ac.uk/Activity/ACTIVITY=VNs;SECTION=2312 for details. Background The CLRC is the UK's leading multidisciplinary science laboratory, providing facilities and services to the UK science community. The Information Science and Engineering Group within the Business and Information Technology Department offers research and development expertise in the science and engineering of high quality information and software systems. It has active research projects in web technologies including XML and the Semantic Web, information modelling and knowledge management and software engineering including OO and formal methods. CLRC also hosts the UK Office of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and is the UK member of the European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM). BITD has recently been awarded five new EU funded Research projects and is looking for three Research Associates to join an established research and development team. The new projects are on: * Semantic Web Advanced Development for Europe * Grid architecture for Application Service Provision * An Agent Based Platform for Organisationally Mobile Public Employees * Trust Management in Dynamic Open Systems * E-Learning within a Grid environment Duties The main duties of these Research Associate posts would include: * Undertaking Research and Technology Development on EU funded projects * Liasing with project partners, attending project meetings, contributing to project deliverables * Dissemination of results of research through academic publications in journals and conferences Qualification and experience Successful candidates will have a good first degree and preferably a postgraduate qualification in Computer Science or a related subject, or equivalent relevant experience. A proven ability to undertake research and experience in one of the topics of the new projects would be advantageous. Knowledge of the following topics would also be an advantage: * Ontologies and metadata, Knowledge representation technologies (eg RDF, DAML+OIL ) * Web service technologies (eg WSDL,UDDI, SOAP, P3P ) and Grid architectures * Knowledge management based on Software Agents, knowledge bases, databases, document repositories, and adaptable user interfaces * Modelling Trust as a means of establishing security and confidence in the global computing infrastructure, introducing trust management into existing and emerging technologies, regulatory and legislative frameworks Training will be available to develop skills as appropriate, in accordance with CLRC's commitment to the Investors in People scheme. Salary Starting salaries will be between £15740 and £32,380 on a pay range from £15,740 to £35,620 dependant on qualifications, experience and the level of appointment An excellent index-linked pension scheme and a generous leave allowance are also offered. For further information please email Dr Juan Bicarregui j.c.bicarregui@rl.ac.uk <mailto:j.c.bicarregui@rl.ac.uk> Dr Juan Bicarregui http://www.bitd.clrc.ac.uk/Person/J.C.Bicarregui Information Science and Engineering Group http://www.bitd.clrc.ac.uk/Group/BITDEINISE Business and Information Technology Department http://www.bitd.clrc.ac.uk/Home CLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory http://www.clrc.ac.uk
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