Dear Smalltalkers,

Please find below the announcement of a Smalltalk related PhD position.
The PhD student that will participate to the VerySmallTalk project that 
aims at building a Very Small smallTalk.
You'll find out more about VerySmallTalk at:
http://csl.ensm-douai.fr/VerySmallTalk

Regards,
Noury
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*Space and Time Efficiency for Unanticipated Dynamic Adaptation*
*Application to Building Agents for Ubiquitous Computing*
http://csl.ensm-douai.fr/VerySmallTalk/

*Summary*
The goal of this PhD is to participate to the design and development of 
VerySmallTalk a software infrastructure dedicated to ubiquitous 
computing. VerySmallTalk is aimed to be a solution to unanticipated 
dynamic adaptation dealing with resource scarcity. Unanticipated and 
dynamic adaptation can be dealt with using reflection and meta-level 
programming. However, because of constraints on available resources, 
reflective operations should introduce only a very little overhead (few 
memory and CPU cycles)

As an application, we will study the use of VerySmallTalk to build 
software agents for multi-agent systems for ubiquitous computing. Such 
agents take into account resource constraints in their decision making 
process.

*Administrative Information and Applications*
The PhD is funded by a grant of the École des Mines de Douai (about 
1250 Euros per month) starting by October 2005. The PhD student will be 
member of the Computer Science Lab at Douai (France) and will be 
supervised by Dr. Noury Bouraqadi (GIP – Ecole des Mines de Douai), Pr. 
Stéphane Ducasse (LISTIC, Université de Savoie), and Dr. Serge 
Stinckwich.

Potential candidates should send by email to bouraqadi at ensm-douai.fr 
the following information and documents:
-CV
-Marks obtained at the Master's exams
-Rank and number of master students
-Summary of Master's thesis
-Coordinates of the Master's thesis supervisor and of any other 
person(s) that may recommand the candidate
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Dr. Noury Bouraqadi - Enseignant/Chercheur
Ecole des Mines de Douai - Dept. G.I.P
http://csl.ensm-douai.fr/noury

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http://www.esug.org

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