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Subject: Fw: Open post-doc position in Paris on adaptative reliable multi-agent systems
From: francois_bousquet (francois_bousquet@hotmail.com)
Date: sam oct 06 2001 - 04:17:12 CEST
Subject: Open post-doc position in Paris on adaptative reliable multi-agent
systems
> %BEGIN Call for postdoc
>
> *** Open post-doc position in Paris on adaptative reliable multi-agent
> systems ***
> *** Proposition de post-doc au LIP6 sur les multi-agents résistants aux
> pannes ***
>
> The ARP (Agents Resistants aux Pannes = Fault-Tolerant Agents) project
> is opening a post-doc position immediately (October 2001).
> This position is one year renewable. The project is a collaboration
> between a multi-agent team (OASIS = Objects and Agents for Simulation
> and Information Systems) and a distributed systems team (SRC = Systemes
> Repartis et Cooperatifs) within Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6
> (LIP6 = University Paris 6 Computer Science Lab), Paris.
>
> This 2 years project is about making large-scale multi-agent systems
reliable
> through adaptive application of replication strategies. As criticality of
> agents may evolve during the course of computation and problem solving,
> we need to dynamically and automatically adapt dependability of agents
> in order to maximize their reliability and availability based on
> available resources.
>
> We are studying an approach and mechanisms for evaluating the criticality
> of a given agent (based on application-level semantic information,
> e.g. messages intention, and also system-level statistical information,
> e.g., communication load) and for deciding what strategy to apply
> (e.g., active replication, passive) and how to parameterize it
> (e.g., number of replicas).
>
> Our two current prototype application examples are : a distributed meeting
> scheduling scenario and a crisis management system. At a given time,
agents
> identified as most criticals (e.g., some crisis management coordinator
> software agent) may be replicated in a certain way and for a certain time.
>
> For our experiments we are using two software prototypes in Java,
> designed at LIP6 :
> - DarX, a distributed fault-tolerant platform, which supports
> dynamic adaptation of strategies (e.g.,, switching from passive
replication
> to active replication, changing the number of copies, etc.).
> - DIMA, a multi-agent plaform.
>
> We already have interfaced and integrated these two platforms in order
> to achieve fault-tolerant agents which may be dynamically replicated.
> We are now starting to work on intelligent and adaptive control of
> replication strategies.
>
> We are looking for a qualified post-doc for working on :
> 1) the evaluation of criticality of an agent, based on various criteria,
> 2) the selection of strategies for replication, based on the criticality
> of an agent,
> 3) the introduction of a self-evaluation mechanism of the entire system.
>
> We are looking for a post-doc with some knowledge and experience
> in some of the following topics :
>
> - software agents and multi-agent systems,
> - distributed and fault-tolerant systems,
> - multi-criteria decision,
> - statistical models (e.g. Markov chains)
> - learning algorithms,
> - Java.
>
> Location of the project : Paris (close to Eiffel tower)
> Duration of the post-doc position/contract : one year renewable
> Conditions : no condition of citizenship
> Opening of position : immediately (from October 2001)
> Language : french or english
>
> Permanents researchers on the project :
> Samir Aknine, Jean-Pierre Briot, Zahia Guessoum, Pierre Sens (LIP6)
>
> Please send a resume to the following contact :
>
> Contact : Zahia Guessoum
> Zahia.Guessoum@lip6.fr
>
> Project Web page :
> http://www-src.lip6.fr/darx/
>
> Lab address :
> Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6)
> Université Paris 6 - CNRS
> 8 rue du Capitaine Scott, 75015 Paris, France
> http://www.lip6.fr/
>
> %END Call for postdoc
>
> --
> Jean-Pierre Briot
> ----------------
> Thème OASIS (Objets et Agents pour Systèmes d'Information et Simulation)
> Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6)
> Université Paris 6 - CNRS
> ----address:
> LIP6
> Paris 6 - Case 169
> 8, rue du Capitaine Scott
> 75015 Paris, France
> tel: +33 (1) 44 27 36 67 -- fax: +33 (1) 44 27 70 00
> e-mail: Jean-Pierre.Briot@lip6.fr -- http://www.lip6.fr/oasis/~briot