Two Post-doc Positions at Politecnico di Milano on Model-driven design and QoS management for Cloud-based Applications

Two Post-doc Positions at Politecnico di Milano Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione Dependable Evolvable Pervasive Software Engineering group

Start date: October 1st, 2012

Type of contract: Fixed term contract (CDD) for 12 months. The contract can be extended up to 36 months.

Gross salary: 26,000-35,000 EUR according to the candidate experience.

Subject: Model-driven design and QoS management for Cloud-based applications

Politecnico di Milano is one of the Technical Universities in Italy, it was established in 1863 and it is ranked as one of the most outstanding European universities in Engineering, Architecture and Industrial Design. In many disciplines it is regarded as a leading research institution worldwide. The number of students enrolled in all campuses is approximately 42,000. The DEpendable Evolvable Pervasive Software Engineering (DEEP-SE) group works within the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione (http://www.dei.polimi.it/). It has been ranked among the “internationally excellent” groups in the software engineering area by [Ren and Taylor, Commun. ACM 50, 6, Jun.2007]. This result has been recently confirmed by an international peer review panel requested by Politecnico di Milano.

The research activity of the DEEP-SE group (http://deepse.dei.polimi.it/) focuses on techniques, tools and frameworks for the development of complex software systems. It encompasses a variety of aspects of such systems, ranging from modeling and analysis issues in the early phases of their development, to issues related to their implementation and runtime management with particular emphasis on autonomic middleware solutions and resource allocation optimization. The group includes 16 faculties, 6 Post-docs, and 12 PhD students.

In this context, expressions of interest are being sought for two Post-doc positions in the context of the MODAClouds European Integrated project (http://www.modaclouds.eu/), starting on October 1st 2012 and running for 36 months. MODAClouds is funded under FP7 obj. 1.2 and includes 10 partners (Politecnico Di Milano, which is also the project coordinator; Stiftelsen Sintef, Norway; Institutul E-Austria Timisoara, Romania; Imperial College Of Science, Technology And Medicine, UK; Softeam, France; Siemens Program And System Engineering Srl, Romania; Boc Information Systems Gmbh, Austria; Flexiant Limited, UK; Atos Spain S.A., CA Technologies Development Spain S.A.). MODAClouds aims at mitigating the classical problem of Cloud-vendor lock-in and at enabling the usage of multiple Clouds as a way to tackle high availability requirements, to increase performance, and to keep costs under control. The solution proposed by MODAClouds is based on model-driven development combined wit!
h novel model-driven risk analysis and quality prediction. The idea is to enable developers using MODAClouds technologies to specify Cloud-provider independent models enriched with quality parameters, implement these, perform quality prediction, monitor applications at run-time, and optimize them by implementing a closed loop. Furthermore, a feedback loop between software design and the operational systems will be also implemented with the aim to fill the gap between run-time data and design-time models quality predictions.

The successful candidates are expected to have a PhD degree in a relevant field and a good publication record. Experience in collaborative research projects  and in supervising masters and undergraduate students will constitute a preferential element. Expertise in one of the following fields will be highly regarded: model driven development, cloud computing, autonomic computing, performance evaluation, optimization, and operations research. The working language will be English, knowledge of Italian is not required.

The position will be fixed-term for one year, renewable for an additional period of two years. The starting date is negotiable but should be around October 1st 2012.

Inquiries and expressions of interest, including a curriculum vitae, a list of publications (with a shortlist of the three most important papers), and an outline of prospective research (no more than 2 pages) should be sent by e-mail to Prof. Elisabetta Di Nitto and Dr. Danilo Ardagna ({dinitto|ardagna}@elet.polimi.it).

Deadline for submissions: 31st of July 2012 (submissions received after that date are welcome and will be considered as long as the fellowship will be still available).