Dear All
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A PhD studentship is available at ENS Mines Saint-Étienne.
He/she will be supervised by Professor Flavien Balbo and assistant
Professor Antoine Zimmermann (ISCOD team, iscod.emse.fr).
Scientific context:
Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) aims at improving public
transports, logistics and traffic management by utilising new hardware
infrastructures (such as, sensors and communication networks) with
modern information technologies for simulation, real-time control, data
and knowledge management and exploitation. This opens new issues for the
collection, storage and distribution of information related to
travellers and goods. More specifically, information sources and
services are numerous, multi-scale, heterogeneous and independent. As an
example, recommending a multimodal route demands access to data and
services that belong to independent operators, and that are difficult to
combine. Therefore, one of the major objectives of ITS is to propose an
adapted answer to the needs and dynamic context of travalers, thanks to
a combined use of multiple services, data sources and partially
formalised knowledge.
Doctoral issue:
In this context, the goal of this PhD thesis is the design of a generic
framework to collect and share information and services in the
transportation domain. Information and services are proposed by multiple
operators in order to offer flexible and adapted advanced services to
the travelers. The resulting middleware has to process heterogeneous and
multi-scale information. The middleware design will be based on
multi-agent and semantic web technologies.
More precisely, the design of the shared information space will exploit
open ontologies and linked data to integrate and to access heterogeneous
and distributed data or service sources. The explicitation and context
awareness of users will be based on the research of the ISCOD team and
will be adapted to the transportation domain. Finally, the deployment of
the middleware in an open and distributed environment will benefit from
the research on interaction and coordination models in the multi-agent
domain with the integration of the mobility dimension.
Additional Information:
The ISCOD laboratory belongs to the Henri Fayol institute that is a
Joint Research Unit (JRU) of ARMINES and its partner school ENS Mines
Saint-Etienne that deals with industrial management, systems engineering
and information technology. Its objectives are to develop and explore
advanced methods, models and tools to improve the overall performance of
organisations, companies, and businesses, from both social
responsibility and sustainable development perspectives. One of its
research activities contribute to the development of a transparent and
intelligent mediation infrastructure between the strongly interconnected
digital world (contents and services) and real world (things and
people). The models, technologies and applications that are developed
within the group address the challenges of Decentralisation, Cooperation
and Openness that are at the core of current ITs application (Web
intelligence, Ambient Computing). The main research subjects
investigated are multi-agent-oriented
computing, information retrieval, semantic technologies, trust and
privacy, artificial intelligence.
Candidate Profile:
The ideal candidate should have an MSc or equivalent degree in computer
science or mathematics and should be able to work in a collaborative
environment.
Background knowledge and/or previous experience in the following areas,
will be considered favorably:
- Multi-agent System,
- Semantic Web,
- Software engineering.
Contact
Email CV and motivation letter to
- Flavien Balbo : Flavien [dot) Balbo [at) emse (dot] fr
- Antoine Zimmermann : Antoine (dot] Zimmermann (at] emse [dot) fr
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Antoine Zimmermann
ISCOD / LSTI - Institut Henri Fayol
École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne
158 cours Fauriel
42023 Saint-Étienne Cedex 2
France
Tél:+33(0)4 77 42 66 03
Fax:+33(0)4 77 42 66 66
http://zimmer.aprilfoolsreview.com/
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