[humaine news] Terra Dynamica Project - 5 PhD openings (one on emotional agents) at LIP6

[Vincent Corruble]

*Terra Dynamica Project*

5 PhD openings (one on emotional agents) at LIP6


Contact / Coordination LIP6 : Vincent Corruble <Vincent.Corruble at lip6.fr>


The Terra Dynamica project, backed by two business clusters from the Paris
region (Cap Digital and Advancity), and selected for funding by the FUI
(French government R&D initiative), involves several partners from industry
and academia, including THALES, projet leader, and Université Pierre et
Marie Curie - Paris 6 <http://www.upmc.fr/> (the Multi-Agents
Systems<http://www.lip6.fr/recherche/team.php?id=380> group
ofLIP6 <http://www.lip6.fr/>, headed par Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni).

The project aims at developing technologies enabling the animation of
realistic virtual cities by simulating the presence and activities of
inhabitants and vehicles going about at their regular activities but also
able to react to events and to adapt to the evolution of their environment
in a credible manner.

Application areas for these technologies are numerous. Terra Dynamica
targets specifically (but not exclusively) applications to security, video
games, urban planning, and transport studies, fields for which the project
includes specialized partners.

In this context, the LIP6 lab from UPMC (MAS group), in collaboration with
Thales, is in charge, in the project core, of the elements needed to endow
the agents (pedestrians and vehicles) in the interactive simulation with an
Artificial Intelligence leading to credible behaviors.

Scientific and technological challenges are numerous - let us mention here
the high degree of interactivity targeted, and the large number of agents to
manage, which points us towards architectures for autonomous agents with
multiple scales (model granularity and levels of detail for the AI).


In the framework of this project, THALES and LIP6 open five funded PhD
positions, planned to begin in January 2010. The 3 first PhD topics
described below are industry- hosted PhDs (CIFRE scheme) whereas the two
other topics (#4 and #5) are traditional PhDs hosted and funded by LIP6 at
UPMC.

We are now inviting applications from highly motivated individuals holding a
Master’s degree in Computer Science or a similar degree. It is deemed
important that candidates have a good level in programming, and at least a
basic knowledge of the French language. It is highly desirable that previous
studies (coursework, project, experience) have prepared them in the areas of
Artificiale Intelligence and Agent technologies. Any research experience in
the areas of the project and with the specific research topics mentionned
will be of course welcome. Concerning the 3 three first research topics
(CIFRE scheme), it is important that the candidate realizes and accepts the
specificity of a PhD carried out mainly in an industry setting.



   1.

   •Topic 1: Modeling the environment - PhD (CIFRE) co-advised by Nicolas
   Sabouret  (LIP6) and Jean-Yves Donnart (THALES)
   2.

   •Topic 2: Navigational AI - PhD (CIFRE) co-advised by Aurélie Beynier
   (LIP6), and Jean-Yves Donnart (THALES)
   3.

   •Topic 3: Decisional AI - PhD (CIFRE) co-advised by Vincent Corruble
   (LIP6) and Jean-Yves Donnart (THALES)
   4.

   •*Topic 4: Emotional agents - PhD (at LIP6) co-advised by Nicolas
   Sabouret and Vincent Corruble (LIP6)*
   5.

   •Topic 5: Coordination d’agents autonomes dans un environnement dynamique
   - PhD (at LIP6) co-advised by Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni and Vincent
   Corruble (LIP6)



For aditional information on openings, settings, and application procedures,
please have a look at the project page at
LIP6<http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/~corruble/TerraDynamica-English/welcome.html>
.


Vincent Corruble <Vincent.Corruble at lip6.fr>, LIP6, UPMC
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