3 Phd Positions in the area of Service Management: adaptation for social connectivity

KDEG is offering 3 separate but complimentary sponsored Phd positions in the area of Service Management: adaptation for social connectivity.

The research undertaken by the 3 students will build upon successful KDEG research in federation, semantic mapping, linked data, personalisation and content-driven adaptation, which have been applied in the areas of Network & Telecoms Service Management, Autonomic Systems, User-Centred Systems & Personalisation, Collaborative Working & Online Communities, Pervasive Services, Context & Management. Each Phd position will make advances on their own particular research topic but will benefit from collaboration with the other Phd students and the wider KDEG group as a whole.

The motivation for focusing on the service management for social connectivity research area, is that while users can freely access their home services, data and social net from anywhere in the world, when visiting another locale there are benefits to the user and to those in the locale of interacting with local variants of services, data and social nets/online communities. This is because the local variants possess local knowledge and specialisations needed to interact effectively with local situations and may offer cheaper alternatives. Example applications use cases can be seen in service adaptation for tourists and business people, for visiting students (linking home knowledge to local learning content) or for medical tourists (linking home medical record to local medical services and procedures).