PhD position in evolving service-based systems

One paid PhD student position is opening with our group, linked to a recently funded ECSEL project AFarCloud (Aggregate Farming in the Cloud). 

The research topic concerns controlled partial upgrades of evolving service-based systems, with the goal to enable prevention of consistency breaking changes in the rollout of service updates of cloud native systems built on microservices.  The work will be building on existing results on component/service modeling and consistency verification and is expected to contribute novel methods of finding optimized set of updates preserving global system consistency.  The research will be performed within the Reliable Software Architectures research group at UWB, in close cooperation with Department of Dependable Distributed Systems at Charles University, Prague.

The position includes half-time paid contract from the project sources, which can be augmented by other funding.  The position is nominally for 3 years, commencing September 2018 (negotiable).

Application instructions: http://fav.zcu.cz/en/study/doctoral/2018-2019/
Submission deadline: 31st August 2018 (differs from the instructions)
Contact person: Premek Brada, brada@kiv.zcu.cz

Department of Computer Science and Engineering and its research groups are part of the Faculty of Applied Sciences of the UWB, a research-oriented faculty offering a unique blend of engineering and natural science disciplines in a modern environment.  Pilsen is a pleasant city at the confluence of four rivers, with well preserved medieval centre, rich cultural life invigorated by being the European Capital of Culture 2015, long tradition of world-class industry and beer brewing, top football and icehockey teams, modern infrastructure, good connections to Prague and Regensburg, and easy to reach countryside offering many opportunities for recreation.