Research Fellow (2 posts): Multi-Agent Systems for Large-Scale Evolving SCADA - EPSRC PACES Project Queen's University Belfast Ref: 12/102064 This newly funded EPSRC project investigates the development of a novel Multi-Agent System (MAS) architecture supporting SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems, built on research on MAS carried out at IIIA in Barcelona. This architecture is to be integrated with an advanced event reasoning framework that has been partially developed at Queen's University Belfast which will fully exploit sensor data and domain knowledge, including treatment of inherent uncertainties, incompleteness and inconsistency to autonomously infer system state and crucially to inform human and autonomous decision makers in the system. Security issues related to multi-agent systems for large scale control problems will also be investigated and such technologies to be integrated into next generation MASs.
The project will address key challenges presented by multi-agent systems (MAS) for large scale control systems including planning and belief change in MAS, uncertainty handling, event correlation and reasoning and decision support for autonomous functions. More specifically, the research topics include: (i) developing multi-agent system architecture for supporting SCADA systems and BDI models in MAS for collective situation awareness; (ii) developing belief change models in multi-agent environments and integrating planning knowledge; (iii) investigating security vulnerabilities in MAS for SCADA (iv) developing sensor information fusion strategies under uncertainty and inconsistency; (v) developing (discrete and continuous) event models and prediction approaches for autonomous planning and execution; (vi) developing decision support strategies to provide real-time situation awareness updates to autonomous components and security personnel; (vii) designing simulators for evaluating theoretical findings in (i) to (vi). The two Research Fellows will work closely on these topics with one Research Fellow primarily working on topics (i), (ii), (iii) and (vii) and the second on topics (iv), (v), (vi) and (vii). Both Posts are for three years. Salary scale: £30,122 - £35,938 per annum Closing date: Monday 11 June 2012 The interview date: Thursday 28th June. For future information and on-line application, please follow the link below http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AEL476/research-fellow-2-posts/ _______________________________________________ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
