[ecoop-info] Postdoc and Ph.D. position on 3gERP-project at DIKU

[Fritz Henglein]

A postdoc position and a Ph.D. scholarship are available at the Department of
Computer Science, University of Copenhagen (DIKU) within 3d generation
enterprise resource
planning systems (3gERP), a collaborative strategic research project
with partners at DIKU
(computer science), Copenhagen Business School (CBS, information
systems) and Microsoft
Development Center Copenhagen (MDCC, enterprise systems).

The 3gERP Project

Enterprise software accounts for more than $200 billion in annual
global revenue (about 5 times the
total revenue of the computer games industry) and costs 10-20 times
more than the hardware it runs
on.  The goal of the 3gERP project is to contribute to developing
theories, technologies and tools
aimed at making enterprise ("ERP") systems more customizable,
evolvable and affordable, specifically
for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).   Starting the second
project phase this summer the
focus is on executable declarative domain-specific languages for
bridging the gap from requirements
to running code, specifically:
• process specification languages and tools for capturing, managing,
and analyzing processes
such as contracts, work flows and production schedules;
• reporting languages and incrementalization technology for automatic
transformation of
business analysis functions to operate in real time in a transactional
environment;
• logic-based modeling of legal rules and reasoning in the business domain;
• presentation frameworks/languages for automatically generating
role-tailored user interfaces
from process, role and data rendering specifications;
• design and implementation of a prototype ERP system based on the
Process-Oriented Event-
driven Transaction Systems (POETS) software architecture, which
encompasses the above
components.

Ph.D. position

We are looking for a Ph.D. student to work on
• reporting languages and incrementalization technology for automatic
transformation of
business analysis functions to operate in real time in a transactional
environment.
This will include mathematical and computer science studies of
incrementalization (transforming
batch programs into programs that work online, updating their result
continuously as new data
arrive), programming of software tools, integration into a prototype
enterprise system based on
POETS, and real-life evaluation in SMEs in collaboration with project
partners at CBS and MDCC.

Postdoc position

We are looking for a postdoc to work on
• design and implementation of a prototype ERP system based on the
Process-Oriented Event-
driven Transaction Systems (POETS) software architecture, including
process, reporting and
rules components in collabortion with the other team members at DIKU, and
• generating role-tailored user interfaces from process, role and data
rendering specifications.

The candidates should have solid theoretical foundations (such as in
strongly typed functional programming;
programming language semantics, program analysis, model checking, type
systems, logic, process calculi
program transformations/model-driven programming) and should
preferably feel excited rather than concerned
by the prospect of using and developing those foundations for
constructing software with a demonstrated
potential for practical utility in an application domain that
constitutes an large sector of the economy.

For more information please see the full position announcement at:

http://www.diku.dk/~henglein/3gERP-positions.pdf

Fritz Henglein
henglein at diku.dk