[ecoop-info] Postdoc Research Fellowship at INRIA Lille, France

[Lionel Seinturier]

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Component-Based Software Engineering

INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and
Control)

The ADAM team <http://adam.lifl.fr> from the INRIA research institute in
France has an open postdoc research fellowship position. The team seeks
for motivated and innovative persons interested in investigating
components and large-scale software architectures. Applicants should
have a background in software engineering, CBSE, ADL, middleware,
distributed systems and distributed services.

The position is for one year with possibility of extension. This
contract is aimed at French or foreign candidates who have defended
their Phd after May 1st, 2007. Candidates who prepared their Phd abroad
will be considered with priority. Applicants must be less than 40 years old.

The ADAM research group is located in Lille, France, on the campus of
the University of Lille 1. Lille is situated in the North of France near
the Belgian border, just 38 minutes from Brussels, 1h from Paris and
1h40 from London by train.

Details about the postdoc research topic can be found below or also
online. Applicants may contact Lionel Seinturier and Philippe
Merle (see emails below) before applying. Applications have to be
registered online.
http://www.talentsplace.com/syndication1/inria/ukpostdoc/details.html?id=PNGFK026203F3VBQB6G68LOE1&LOV5=4508&LOV6=4512&LG=EN&Resultsperpage=20&nPostingID=1948&nPostingTargetID=4962&option=52&sort=DESC&nDepartmentID=19

The application deadline is: February 15, 2008.

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*Title* : Components and Large-scale Software Architectures -
Application to Distributed Discrete Event Simulation

*Research Context*
The INRIA ADAM team is conducting research activities in the domain of
componentbased distributed systems. The post-doctoral position is
related to BROCCOLI (Building, instRumenting and deplOying
Component-based arChitectures fOr Large-scale applIcations) which is a
2-year INRIA ARC (Actions de Recherche Coop´eratives) between the ADAM
team (INRIA Futurs, Lille), the MASCOTTE project-team (INRIA
Sophia-Antipolis) and the ACMES team (CNRS/GET-INT).

*Work description*
Distributed systems and systems for discrete event simulation are more
and more build as assemblies of software components [7] specified with
architecture description languages. Many approaches have been proposed
so far (just to name a few Fractal, CCM, Open-COM, Darwin, ArchJava,
DEVS, SimBeans or CD++). They address requirements in terms of software
reuse and structuring. These solutions emerged independently in the
communities of distributed systems and of discrete event simulation and
mostly ignore each other.

The goal of the project is to define a platform for designing,
deploying, observing, managing and reconfiguring distributed grid-based
applications for discrete event simulation. The focus will be put on
scalability by targeting applications composed of a large number of
software entities (N >= 106 simulation components deployed on a grid
composed of 5000 nodes and generating X >= 109 events to be observed).

The workplan of the project includes a study of state of the art
component platforms. The focus should be put on identifying bottlenecks
which limit scalability. The post-doc researcher will propose original
solutions to solve the issues posed by these bottlenecks. This could
take the form of new platform architectures, new tools, new model-based
approaches, new algorithms for deployment, or new component runtime
platforms. A prototype will be developed to demonstrate the feasibility
of the proposal. This task may imply the aggregation of works done by
internship students which will be supervised by the post-doc researcher.
One or several case studies will be implemented on this platform to
demonstrate the desired properties in terms of scalability.

*Required Knowledge and Background*
The post-doc candidate must have a research experience in at least one
of the following domains: distributed systems, software components,
discrete event simulation. She/he must be ready to conduct autonomous
research activities, to work collaboratively with geographically
distributed teams (Lille, Paris, Sophia-Antipolis), to be willing to
submit his/her work in the best international conferences and journals,
and to be ready to develop some complex software platforms.

*Contact*
For further information, please contact:
Lionel Seinturier : Lionel.Seinturier at lifl.fr
Philippe Merle : Philippe.Merle at lifl.fr


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Lionel Seinturier
Univ. Lille (USTL) - Lab. LIFL - INRIA ADAM
http://www.lifl.fr/~seinturi