The University of New South Wales (UNSW) recently awarded theSchool of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) a Strategic Initiative Grant to recruit two academic staff with high-level expertise in services engineering. The initiative will aim at capability enhancing and will build upon the strengths in areas of Web service engineering, business intelligence, and end-user-centric and real-time analytics.

The areas of focus will be investigated in frontier eResearch application areas: e-science, finance, government, digital media, environment, and personal processes management - where expertise to empower a service-based and competitive economy is much needed. CSE has been an active member of the Smart Internet CRC (Cooperative Research Centre), which winds up operations this year, and is also one of six universities and many industrial partners in its successor, the Smart Services CRC, which is expected to be formally launched mid-2008.

The Strategic Initiative builds on UNSW's expertise in services engineering to maximise the opportunities arising from the new CRC and thereby strengthening its eResearch capability more generally.

The initiative will not only build on UNSW strengths in services engineering, but also leverage this to build eResearch capability within UNSW.

The School is one of the largest computing schools in Australia. It offers undergraduate programs in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Bioinformatics, as well as a number of combined degrees with other disciplines. It attracts excellent students who have an outstanding record in international competitions. At the postgraduate level there is a large PhD research program and coursework programs at the Masters, Graduate Diploma and Graduate Certificate level.

The School is a founding partner and significant contributor to the following Centres: National ICT Australia (NICTA), ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems (CAS), iCinema - Centre for Interactive Cinema.

The current salary range for Senior Lecturer is A$87,182 - A$100,022 and for Associate Professor is A$104,301 - A$114,569 per year depending on qualifications and experience plus up to 17% employer superannuation plus leave loading.

Applicants should systematically address the selection criteria in their application.

For further information you may contact Professor Boualem Benatallah (Leader Service Oriented Computing Research Group, project leader for Service Aggregation Research for the Smart Services CRC, CSE Research Coordinator), email: boualem@cse.unsw.edu.au, or Professor Paul Compton (Head of School) on (61 2) 9385 5518 or email compton@cse.unsw.edu.au. For an information package and application procedure, please follow this link: http://www.hr.unsw.edu.au/services/recruitment/jobs/18040802.html

A research associate or a research assistant or developer position is available at the Services Oriented Computing Research Group, School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia.

The position is funded by DEST grant on services engineering for ad-hoc data grids. The research project involves services engineering, data services, business intelligence, end-user centric and real-time analytics. This project is currently conducted at CSE (UNSW) in Sydney in close collaboration with the FinanceIT research group (UNSW), industry and international partners.

The position can be full- or part-time for one year. It requires a university degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related disciplines with at least Honours 2/1 standard or equivalent. We are looking for a person having excellent oral, written communication and presentation skills, a good ability to work in a collaborative team environment, and excellent skills in software development/engineering. The appointment level depends on the experience and background of the candidate.

Finally, to be eligible the applicant must be a citizen of Australia or an Australian permanent resident.

Interested candidates should send their CV along with information on their experience relevant to the project’s areas described above to Professor Boualem Benatallah (leader of Service Oriented Computing Research group, and project leader for Service Aggregation Research for the Smart Services CRC) via email boualem@cse.unsw.edu.au.

Applications will be considered until the position is filled.

Further information is available on the SOC website: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~soc.

The University of New South Wales (UNSW) recently awarded the School of Computer Science (CSE) and Engineering a Strategic Initiative Grant in order to recruit two academics at the Associate Professor level with high-level expertise in services engineering for eResearch. The initiative aim at capability enhancing in will build upon the strengths in the areas of Web service engineering, business intelligence, and end-user-centric and real-time analytics. The areas of focus will be investigated in frontier eResearch application areas: e-science, finance, government, digital media, environment, and personal processes management where expertise to empower a service-based and competitive economy is much needed. CSE has been an active member of the Smart Internet CRC (Cooperative Research Centre), which winds up operations this year, and is also one of six universities and many industrial partners in its successor, the Smart Services CRC, which is expected to be formally launched before the end of the year.

The Strategic Initiative builds on UNSW's expertise in services engineering to maximise the opportunities arising from new CRC and thereby strengthening its eResearch capability more generally. The initiative will not only build on UNSW strengths in services engineering, but leverage this to build eResearch capability within UNSW.

The School is one of the largest computing schools in Australia. It offers undergraduate programs in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Bioinformatics, as well as a number of combined degrees with other disciplines. It attracts excellent students who have an outstanding record in international competitions. At the postgraduate level there is a large PhD research program and course work programs at the Master's and Graduate Diploma level in Computing and Information Technology and at Graduate Certificate level in Computing.

The School is a founding partner and significant contributor to the following centres: NICTA (National ICT Australia), ARC Centre of Exellence for Autonomous Systems, iCinema - Centre for Interactive Cinema.

The current salary range for Associate Professor is A$101K - A$111K per year depending on qualifications and experience plus up to 17% employer superannuation plus leave loading.

Expressions of interest may be forwarded to: A/Professor Boualem Benatallah (leader Service Oriented Computing Research group, project leader for Service Aggregation Research for the Smart Services CRC), email: boualem@cse.unsw.edu.au , or Professor Paul Compton (Head of School) on (61 2) 9385 5518 or email Compton@cse.unsw.edu.au

Further information about the School can be found in the supplementary information pack here: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~soc/ServiceEng_ExpInterest.pdf