2023-05729 - R &D Engineer: Contributing to the development of SocialBus - A Universal Social Network Bus
Contract type : Fixed-term contract
Renewable contract : Oui
Level of qualifications required : Graduate degree or equivalent
Fonction : Temporary scientific engineer
ContextThe SocialBus Research & Innovation Project
Computer-mediated communication can be defined as any form of human communication achieved through computer technology. From its beginnings, it has been shaping the way humans interact with each other, and it has influenced many areas of society. There exist a plethora of social interaction services enabling computer-mediated social communication (e.g., Skype, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, WhatsApp, Twitter, Slack, etc.). Based on personal preferences, users may prefer a social interaction services rather than another. As a result, users sharing same interests may not be able to interact since they are using incompatible technologies.
To tackle the above interoperability barrier, we propose SocialBus, a middleware solution targeted to enable the interaction via heterogeneous social interaction services.
References:
Rafael Angarita, Nikolaos Georgantas, Valerie Issarny. Social Middleware for Civic Engagement. ICDCS 2019 - 39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems - Vision Track, Jul 2019, Dallas, United States. https: // hal.inria.fr/hal-02162736.
William Aboucaya, Rafael Angarita, Valerie Issarny. Detecting Obstacles to Collaboration in an Online Participatory Democracy Platform: A Use-case Driven Analysis. FairWare '22 - International Workshop on Equitable Data and Technology in conjunction with the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2022), May 2022, Pittsburgh, PA, United States. pp.25-33. https: // hal.inria.fr/hal-03654027.
Contribution
As part of the further development of the USNB solution, the research engineer will specifically contribute to:
The work will go along with the adoption of adequate software engineering practices, and the production of documentation.
Main activitiesThe activities to be undertaken derive from the above expected contributions and include:
Expertise, including experience or at least knowledge in the following topics: • Service oriented architectures, • Middleware architectures and systems, • Implementation of Web APIs, • Code generation, • Use of data base management systems, • Use of social networks.
Benefits packageTheme/Domain : Distributed Systems and middleware Software engineering (BAP E)
Town/city : Paris
The candidate should have interest and/or be willing to develop expertise in the development, from design to prototype implementation, of advanced software systems.
The candidate should have interest and/or be willing to develop expertise in online social networking and participatory systems.
The candidate should be both autonomous and a team-worker.
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