Hi, Please see below for details of 4 PhD student positions - no 4 is very relevant to those with an interest in PPIG:
The Software Engineering Division at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Sweden announces * 4 PhD student positions in Software Engineering * ============================ Important information: Position 1: ----------- Application deadline: 2013-06-17 URL: http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/vacancies/Pages/default.aspx?rmpag e=job&rmjob=1362 Positions 2&3: -------------- Application deadline: 2013-08-01 URL: http://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/announcements-in-the-job-appl ication-portal/?languageId=0&disableRedirect=true&id=19144&Dnr=546199&Type= E Position 4: ----------- Application deadline: 2013-06-20 URL: http://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/announcements-in-the-job-appl ication-portal/?languageId=0&disableRedirect=true&id=19144&Dnr=546460&Type= E ============================ Information about the Department The department is strongly international, with approximately 80 faculty and 70 PhD students from 30 countries. The positions are placed in the Software Engineering (SE) Division. Research within the SE division ranges over the whole spectrum of software engineering, from technology to management research. Areas involve requirements engineering, software architecture, software design, model-driven development, verification and validation, software process improvement, and human factors. Software Engineering is a strategic area at the department and activities in the field are envisaged to grow further. In 2011, the Software Research Centre was established in close collaboration with industrial partners, which presents excellent opportunities to conduct research with industry. ============================ Job description Position 1: --------------------------- The research of the advertised PhD position will be in the area of model-based software engineering for embedded systems, specifically model-based requirements engineering for automotive software. Model-based requirements engineering enables defining the expected behavior, e.g., order of signals, timing constraints, state changes, in a consistent and unambiguous way compared to informal text. Furthermore, the models allow executing and proving the correctness of the models already before the actual development begins. In the project, existing model-based requirements engineering approaches will be assessed on automotive requirements and based on these results improvements to these approaches will be developed. The research will take place in the European project CRYSTAL with a strong collaboration with Swedish and European automotive companies. The project is run by the Software Engineering for Embedded and Automotive Systems (SEAS) research group at the division, which carries out research and development projects with national and international partners from academia and industry. Further Information: http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/vacancies/Pages/default.aspx?rmpag e=job&rmjob=1362 Job description Position 2: --------------------------- This project aims to develop techniques for automatically updating UML models based on progressing source code. A typical situation in software development projects is that a UML design of the systems is made in the early phase of the project. Once the project moves into later phases, emphasis of the developers shifts from designing to the source code. Changes are then only applied to the source code and the UML model becomes increasingly outdated. However, there are several occasions when an up-to-date model is valuable: for maintenance engineers, for testers and for engineerings joining a project at a later stage. The approach: a test set of UML models and source code is available. The project consists of: (1) Developing techniques for selecting which parts of the changes to the source code should be used to update the UML model. These may be statistics-based learning techniques, summarization techniques, feature-identification or other problem-specific approaches. (2) Implementing tooling to show and validate the approach, ideally working with industrial case studies. Further information: http://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/announcements-in-the-job-appl ication-portal/?languageId=0&disableRedirect=true&id=19144&Dnr=546199&Type= E Job description Position 3: --------------------------- This project aims to develop a new approach for software composition. The novelty of this composition model is that it is aims to separate concerns related to technical composition, functionality (semantics) and interaction style in different interfaces. The feasibility of this approach will be demonstrated by developing a component model that will enable user-driven composition of webpages (somewhat similar to internet mash-ups). Further information: http://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/announcements-in-the-job-appl ication-portal/?languageId=0&disableRedirect=true&id=19144&Dnr=546199&Type= E Job description Position 4: --------------------------- The focus on psychology in software engineering (SE) has increased in the last couple of years. In order to fully understand and increase productivity, these social aspects need consideration. Very little is done in the multidisciplinary field of combining software development with social and group psychology. Some studies have been made regarding personality traits and SE, but many aspects are to be found on the group-level such as norms, culture, leadership, group development, conflict management etc. Many believe that these aspects become extra important in an agile development process. The PhD student position focuses on integrating psychological factors into software engineering practices. The research will use a multi-disciplinary approach and rely on quantitative as well as qualitative methods. During the thesis work a new methodology to integrate social psychology aspect into software development will be developed. Examples of research question that can be addressed are: a) How can psychological (group dynamics) aspects be integrated into agile software development? b) How do improved team-level processes affect results? c) How can the effects of psychological aspects be assessed? Further information: http://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/announcements-in-the-job-application-portal/languageId=0&disableRedirect=true&id=19144&Dnr=546460&Type=E ============================ For questions, please contact: Position 1: ----------- Dr. Matthias Tichy, Department of Computer Sciene and Engineering Software Enginering Division phone +46 31 772 6031<tel:%2B46%2031%20772%206031> e-mail ti...@chalmers.se<mailto:ti...@chalmers.se> Positions 2&3: -------------- Prof. Dr. Michel Chaudron Department of Computer Sciene and Engineering Software Enginering Division phone +46 31 772 1165<tel:%2B46%2031%20772%201165> e-mail chaud...@chalmers.se<mailto:chaud...@chalmers.se> Position 4: ----------- Dr. Richard Torkar Department of Computer Sciene and Engineering Software Enginering Division phone +46 31 772 5719<tel:%2B46%2031%20772%205719> e-mail richard.tor...@chalmers.se<mailto:richard.tor...@chalmers.se> -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).
