Researcher Position: Automated Support for Service Oriented Applications

The Service Oriented Applications (SOA) Research Group (http://soa.fbk.eu), part of the Center for Information Technology (IRST) of the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento, Italy (http://cit.fbk.eu/), is seeking candidates for a researcher position.

The activity will be carried out in Trento, and will aim at the design and development of methodologies and support tools for the automated integration, and the run-time checking of distributed services. In particular, the activities will focus on the following topics: 

• automated resource-based composition of business processes
• self-adapting service orchestration
• assumption-based service monitoring and adaptation

The activities will be carried out within the European Projects ALLOW, SCUBE and SLA@SOI of the 7th framework programme. 

Detailed information on these projects can be found at http://soa.fbk.eu/projects.php.

The successful candidates will be enrolled with a fixed length contract of 3 years, and will be subject to a 6 months trial work period.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate should have a Ph.D degree in computer science, mathematics or electronic engineering or proved equivalent experience, combine solid theoretical background and software development skills, and have some degree of autonomy.

The candidate should be able to work in a collaborative environment, with a strong commitment to achieving assigned objectives and reaching research excellence.

In depth previous experience in at least one of the following areas is

required:

• Service-Oriented Architectures
• Enterprise Application Integration
• Automated Planning and Software Synthesis
• Semantic Web Services

Presentation and Inquiries

Candidates interested in the above position should introduce themselves and inquire for further information by sending email to jobs[at]fbk[dot]eu.

Applications should contain a statement of interest, with a Curriculum Vitae, and three reference persons. PDF format is strongly encouraged.

Emails will be automatically processed and should have 

'Ref.Code: SOA_Research2011' 

as subject.

The SOA Research Group

Led by Marco Pistore, the Service Oriented Applications Research Group

(http://soa.fbk.eu) consists of about 15 persons, including researchers, Ph.D., post-Doc, and programmers, doing research in the field of service oriented computing, web services, and distributed business processes.

The research of the group focuses in particular on the development of techniques and tools that enact the effective, reliable, low-cost, and time-efficient composition and monitoring of distributed business processes through web service technologies. The pioneering research performed by the SOA group in this area is widely recognized to be

state-of-the- art for what concerns advanced methodologies and automated support tools for the design and execution of distributed web processes. Such results are embedded within the ASTRO platform (http://www.astroproject.org/), which includes and integrates tools for service composition, verification, execution, and monitoring. Current research directions of the unit include user centric service composition (i.e., the composition and enactment of available services to fulfill specific requirements of the end-user) and evolution and adaptation of service compositions through autonomic mechanisms and aspect-oriented design approaches.

The group is currently involved in several research projects, as well as in industrial projects aiming at applying the research results of the group to key application domains such as Telco, e-government, and logistics.

Location

Trento is a lively town of about 100.000 inhabitants, located about 130 km south of the border between Italy and Austria. It is well known for the beauty of its mountains and lakes, and it offers the possibility to practice a wide range of sports. Trento enjoys a rich cultural and historical heritage, and it is the ideal starting point for day trips to famous towns such as Venice or Verona, as well as to enjoy great naturalistic journeys. Detailed information about Trento and its region can be found at http://www.visittrentino.it/en.