Monday, February 11, 2013

[DMANET] Postdoc position in project "Advanced planning systems for vertically integrated supply chain management", The University of Adelaide, Australia

Open PostDoc Position in
ARC Discovery Project "Advanced planning systems for vertically integrated supply chain management"

The Evolutionary Computation Group (http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~ec/)
at the University of Adelaide, Australia, has an open position for a Postdoctoral Researcher position within
the ARC Discovery Project
"Advanced planning systems for vertically integrated supply chain management"
by Prof Zbigniew Michalewicz, A/Prof Frank Neumann, and Dr Adam Ghandar.

The project is carried out in close collaboration with the company SolveIT Software which is a major industry player in the field of supply chain management software.

We are am seeking an excellent candidate with PhD in Computer Science/Operations Research or a
related field. Candidates should have a strong background on combinatorial optimisation and/or heuristic methods such
as evolutionary algorithms and ant colony optimisation and excellent programming skills.

The position starts July 2013 (negotiable) and is for 2 1/2 years.
The initial salary is paid according to Level A, Step 6 (currently 74 001 AUD per annum) on the University of Adelaide salary scale.

The Evolutionary Computation Group at the University of Adelaide consists of 15 researchers working
on the application of heuristic methods to large scale optimisation problems as well as on their theoretical foundations.
The group belongs to the area Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
which achieved the best possible score of five -indicating quality among the very best in the world - in the latest Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA).
The Evolutionary Computation Group collaborates with several of the major research institutions in Europe
and USA and has a high international visibility.

Potential candidates are requested to apply by sending
a short application (including CV, list of publications, names of
at least two references who could give further details), preferably as a single
pdf-file, via email to frank.neumann@adelaide.edu.au
by 15 March, 2013.

-------------------
Frank Neumann
Associate Professor and Postgraduate Coordinator
Evolutionary Computation Group
School of Computer Science
University of Adelaide, Australia
Adelaide, SA 5005
Australia
www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~frank
**********************************************************
*
* Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to
*
* DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de
*
* Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be
* addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. The
* original sender, however, is invited to prepare an
* update of the replies received and to communicate it
* via DMANET.
*
* DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS NETWORK (DMANET)
* http://www.zaik.uni-koeln.de/AFS/publications/dmanet/
*
**********************************************************