Postdoc position at INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France

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INRIA (http://www.inria.fr/), the French national institute for research in computer science and control, is dedicated to fundamental and applied research in information and communication science and technology. Throughout its eight research centers, the Institute also plays a major role in technology transfer by fostering training through research, diffusion of scientific and technical information, development, as well as providing expert advice and participating in international programs.

The proposed job is offered by INRIA Nancy-Grand Est research center for a position of postdoc in the SCORE research team (http://score.loria.fr).

Real-time peer-to-peer collaborative systems

Starting date of the job: as soon as possible

Employment period: 9 months (possibly extendable to 18 months)

Gross salary: around 2500 Euro depending on the experience of the candidate

Subject

Nowadays we are faced with an explosion of real-time and social software such as wikis, blog, micro-blogs, and social networks services (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.). Most of the platforms hosting these social services rely on a central authority and place personal information in the hands of a single large corporation which is a perceived privacy threat. Our vision is to move away from centralised authority-based collaboration towards a decentralized collaboration where each user can decide with whom to share their data. One important aspect is management of distributed shared data.

In order to provide a high responsiveness, data availability, reliability, scalability and fault tolerance, data is replicated. Optimistic replication approaches are used to maintain consistency of the different copies of the same data. These approaches tolerate divergence between copies after they have been modified and ensure that they will eventually converge.

The successful candidate for the postdoctoral position will be involved in the design of optimistic replication mechanisms and/or the peer-to-peer architecture suitable for real-time distributed collaboration and/or user studies of the designed collaborative systems. The candidate will be involved as well in the theoretical and practical experimentation of the proposed systems. The postdoctoral position is proposed in the context of Wiki 3.0 (https://wiki30.xwikisas.com) and ANR STREAMS (http://streams.loria.fr/) projects.

Required qualifications

  • PhD in Computer Science or Information Technology
  • Expertise in one or more of the domains: collaborative systems, distributed systems, peer-to-peer systems, user studies
  • Good communication skills for working in a team
  • French language is not required

Candidates should send their CVs at ignatcla@loria.fr (Claudia-Lavinia Ignat, INRIA Researcher) as soon as possible.