Hello all -- This is a preliminary announcement of the *possibility* of several post-doctoral positions in argumentation, arising in a European Commission (EC) project aiming to develop re-usable software components for argumentation-based computational systems. The project is entitled <ASPIC: Argumentation Service Platform with Integrated Components>, and is an EC Sixth Framework (FP6) Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP). The project is in an advanced stage of negotiation with the EC. If negotiations are concluded successfully and to schedule, the positions will be available from 1 January 2004, in most cases until 31 December 2006.
The academic partners in the project are the Advanced Computation Laboratory of Cancer Research UK (Technical Co-ordinator), the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC, Spain), IRIT- Toulouse (France), the University of Surrey (UK), the University of Liverpool (UK), Utrecht University (the Netherlands), and Brooklyn College, City University of New York (USA). Post-doctoral positions in argumentation are planned for all but the last of these institutions, and will include both theoretical and computational posts. In addition, two software companies are partners in the project: Navus (Ravensburg, Germany) and Zeus Consulting (Project Co-ordinator, Greece). Navus have indicated that they desire an argumentation background for one of the software development posts there. It is my currrent understanding that the posts will not be restricted to citizens of EU member states. However, an institution appointing non-citizens will need to obtain work permits for the appointees, according to the national laws in the country concerned. At this time, I would welcome informal enquiries from potential candidates. If you have a preference for a particular location or institution, I will be happy to forward your enquiry to the relevant contact person at the other partner institution. Some of these institutions may soon advertise their posts directly in any case. -- Peter McBurney **************************************************************** Dr Peter McBurney Department of Computer Science University of Liverpool Liverpool L69 7ZF U. K. Tel: + 44 151 794 6760 Web page: www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~peter/ ****************************************************************
