[Dbworld] PhD and Postdoc Positions in Service-Oriented Systems Engineering, Hasso Plattner Institute

                    Opening of the Research School
                "Service-Oriented Systems Engineering"
        at Hasso-Plattner-Institute of IT Systems Engineering
               at the University of Potsdam, Germany

Hasso-Plattner-Institute (HPI) is a privately financed institute affiliated to the University of 
Potsdam. The Institute’s founder and endower Professor Hasso Plattner, who is also co-founder and 
chairman of the supervisory board of SAP AG, has created the opportunity for students to enjoy a 
unique elite education in IT systems engineering in a professional and effective research environment 
with a strong practice orientation.

Now HPI opens a research school on "Service-Oriented Systems Engineering" under the scientific 
guidance of Profs. Dres. Jürgen Döllner, Christoph Meinel, Hasso Plattner, Andreas Polze, 
Mathias Weske, Werner Zorn. Starting from October 1, 2005, scholarships are available for

   6 PhD-Students (monthly 1400 Euro, not subject to tax deductions) and
   3 Postdocs (monthly 1800 Euro, not subject to tax deductions)

The main research areas in the research school at HPI are
    * Self-Adaptive Service-Oriented Systems
    * Architecture and Modeling of Service-Oriented Systems
    * Adaptive Process Management
    * Services Composition and Workflow Planning
    * Automatic and semi-automatic services composition
    * Software architectures for adaptive service enactment
    * Engineering business processes in services-based systems
    * Security Engineering of Service-Based IT Systems
    * Quantitative Analysis und Optimization of Service-Oriented Systems
    * Service-Oriented Systems in 3D Computer Graphics