※ 本文轉錄自 [gaozi] 信箱 作者: [email protected] (Tzu-Han Kao) 標題: Fw: PhD-position Plan Coordination TU-Delft 時間: Tue Feb 21 08:50:22 2006 ----- Original Message ----- From: Tomas Klos To: Computational Science Mailing List Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 11:09 PM Subject: PhD-position Plan Coordination TU-Delft please distribute to potentially interested students and lists, thank you. -- Tomas Klos CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands http://homepages.cwi.nl/~tomas/ T: +31 205924113, F: +31 205924199 You don't need eyes to see, you need vision - Maxi Jazz (Faithless) ====================================================================== 1 PhD Student in Plan Coordination for Multi-agent Systems (Computer Science / Artificial Intelligence) Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science ====================================================================== ++ Job description ++ There exists a vacancy for a Ph.D. student position (AIO) in a joint project “Task Coordination for Non-cooperative Agents”, to be carried out at both the Faculty of Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EWI) of TU-Delft, and in the Theme Group “Computational Intelligence and Multi-agent Games” of CWI Amsterdam. The project is funded by NWO, the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research. The aim of this project is to address task coordination problems in multi-agent systems that arise if a complex task consisting of a set of interrelated subtasks has to be solved by a number of non- cooperative actors (self-interested agents or competitive companies). Typical examples are multi-modal transportation problems, where different transportation companies are involved in bringing goods and/ or passengers to their destinations, and patient health care systems, where a sequence of treatments has to be assigned to different parties. The research can be characterized as fundamental with a clear eye on the applications. The PhD student at TU-Delft will concentrate on Plan coordination methods for complex tasks. Plan coordination methods are required whenever a complex task has to be performed by several planning agents each taking responsibility for a subset of the total set of tasks. Since in a complex task, several dependencies exist between the subtasks, these dependencies are distributed among the agents, preventing them to plan autonomously. The idea of the research project is to come up with algorithms and heuristics to identify and to distribute suitable constraints that can to be added to the complex task such that autonomous planning is ensured. Keywords are distributed planning, coordination, self-interested systems. ++ Project ++ In the project two PhD’s (CWI-Amsterdam and TU-Delft) will cooperate on the problem how to interleave the plan coordination and task allocation process, in order to find less costly solutions to the problem, and they will apply these methods in a multi-modal transportation as well as a patient-health care case. ++ Requirements ++ Required education/skills: University Graduate. Candidates are expected to have a university degree (MSc) in computer science, artificial intelligence, economics, or similar discipline; good communication skills, in written as well as spoken English. He or she must be open-minded and capable of working independently and in a small team. Job type(s): Ph.D. students, research trainees, non- tenured lecturers, researchers (Scientific expertise: Computer Science) ++ Organization ++ Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) website: http://www.tudelft.nl ++ Conditions of employment ++ Maximum salary amount in Euro's a month: 2394. Employment basis: Temporary for specified period Duration of the contract: Period of 4 years Maximum hours per week: 38 Additional conditions of employment: According Collective Labour Agreement (CAO) Dutch Universities. ++ Additional Information ++ Additional information about the vacancy can be obtained from: Dr. Cees Witteveen, TU-Delft, Tel. +31 (0)15 278 2521 Email: [email protected] ++ Application ++ You can apply for this job before April 1, 2005 by sending your application to: Delft University of Technology Faculty EEMCS attn: Dr. C. Witteveen Mekelweg 4 2628 CD Delft The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Computational Science mailing list hosting is provided by OptimaNumerics (http://www.OptimaNumerics.com) --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 夫兵者不祥之器物或惡之故有道者不處君子居則貴左用兵則貴右兵者不祥之器非君子 之器不得已而用之恬淡為上勝而不美而美之者是樂殺人夫樂殺人者則不可得志於天下 矣吉事尚左凶事尚右偏將軍居左上將軍居右言以喪禮處之殺人之眾以哀悲泣之戰勝以 喪禮處之道常無名樸雖小天下莫能臣侯王若能守之萬物將自賓天地相合以降甘露民莫 之令而自均始制有名名亦既有夫亦將知止知止可以Wlan-Gateway.LIB.NCTU.edu.tw海