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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; background-color:#ffffff;"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b; background-color:#ffffff;">A todos os eventuais interessados.</span></p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; background-color:#ffffff;"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b; background-color:#ffffff;">iCIS - pos-doc position </span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; background-color:#ffffff;"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b; background-color:#ffffff;">The Project , iCIS Intelligent Computing in the Internet of Services </span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; background-color:#ffffff;"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b; background-color:#ffffff;">(</span><a href="http://icis.uc.pt/"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#0057ae;">http://icis.uc.pt/</span></a><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b;">)</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; background-color:#ffffff;"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b; background-color:#ffffff;">led by Prof. Dr. Paulo de Carvalho, located at the Department of </span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; background-color:#ffffff;"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b; background-color:#ffffff;">Informatics Engineering at the University of</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; background-color:#ffffff;"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b; background-color:#ffffff;">Coimbra, Portugal, invites applications for one full-time pos-doc position.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; background-color:#ffffff;"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b; background-color:#ffffff;">The scholarship will be for 12 months (1495 euro per month, net) and may </span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; background-color:#ffffff;"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b; background-color:#ffffff;">be extended until the end of ICIS (June 2015).</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; background-color:#ffffff;"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b; background-color:#ffffff;">The deadline for application is 20th of December. </span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; background-color:#ffffff;"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b; background-color:#ffffff;">For more detailed information see file in attachment. </span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; background-color:#ffffff;"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b; background-color:#ffffff;">Work plan:</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; background-color:#ffffff;"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b; background-color:#ffffff;">The aim is to develop methodologies and algorithms to improve </span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; background-color:#ffffff;"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b; background-color:#ffffff;">performance, resilience and functionality of future networks and the </span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; background-color:#ffffff;"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b; background-color:#ffffff;">Future Internet. The improvement of the QoR (Quality of Resiliency) of </span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; background-color:#ffffff;"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b; background-color:#ffffff;">the netwoork infrastructure is one way to achieve this goal.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; background-color:#ffffff;"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b; background-color:#ffffff;">The study of approaches that can contribute to this goal, for example </span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; background-color:#ffffff;"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b; background-color:#ffffff;">the determination of a spine with high availability - which may or may </span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; background-color:#ffffff;"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b; background-color:#ffffff;">not be a spanning tree, will be pursued.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; background-color:#ffffff;"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b; background-color:#ffffff;">This spine will be used for serving active paths with high reliability </span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; background-color:#ffffff;"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b; background-color:#ffffff;">requirements. Masking the network topology may also be considered, for </span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; background-color:#ffffff;"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b; background-color:#ffffff;">restricting the visibility of the network resources per service classes, </span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; background-color:#ffffff;"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b; background-color:#ffffff;">or for defining virtual networks. Also, for supporting cloud computing, </span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; background-color:#ffffff;"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b; background-color:#ffffff;">architectures incorporating the spine concept have been proposed. </span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; background-color:#ffffff;"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b; background-color:#ffffff;"> Also, for supporting cloud computing, architectures incorporating the </span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; background-color:#ffffff;"><span style=" font-size:12px; color:#1f1c1b; background-color:#ffffff;">spine concept have been proposed.</span></p></body></html>