A postdoc position and a Ph.D. scholarship are available at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen (DIKU) within 3d generation enterprise resource planning systems (3gERP), a collaborative strategic research project with partners at DIKU (computer science), Copenhagen Business School (CBS, information systems) and Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen (MDCC, enterprise systems). The 3gERP Project Enterprise software accounts for more than $200 billion in annual global revenue (about 5 times the total revenue of the computer games industry) and costs 10-20 times more than the hardware it runs on. The goal of the 3gERP project is to contribute to developing theories, technologies and tools aimed at making enterprise ("ERP") systems more customizable, evolvable and affordable, specifically for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Starting the second project phase this summer the focus is on executable declarative domain-specific languages for bridging the gap from requirements to running code, specifically: • process specification languages and tools for capturing, managing, and analyzing processes such as contracts, work flows and production schedules; • reporting languages and incrementalization technology for automatic transformation of business analysis functions to operate in real time in a transactional environment; • logic-based modeling of legal rules and reasoning in the business domain; • presentation frameworks/languages for automatically generating role-tailored user interfaces from process, role and data rendering specifications; • design and implementation of a prototype ERP system based on the Process-Oriented Event-driven Transaction Systems (POETS) software architecture, which encompasses the above components. Ph.D. position We are looking for a Ph.D. student to work on • reporting languages and incrementalization technology for automatic transformation of business analysis functions to operate in real time in a transactional environment. This will include mathematical and computer science studies of incrementalization (transforming batch programs into programs that work online, updating their result continuously as new data arrive), programming of software tools, integration into a prototype enterprise system based on POETS, and real-life evaluation in SMEs in collaboration with project partners at CBS and MDCC. Postdoc position We are looking for a postdoc to work on • design and implementation of a prototype ERP system based on the Process-Oriented Event-driven Transaction Systems (POETS) software architecture, including process, reporting and rules components in collabortion with the other team members at DIKU, and • generating role-tailored user interfaces from process, role and data rendering specifications. The candidates should have solid theoretical foundations (such as in strongly typed functional programming; programming language semantics, program analysis, model checking, type systems, logic, process calculi program transformations/model-driven programming) and should preferably feel excited rather than concerned by the prospect of using and developing those foundations for constructing software with a demonstrated potential for practical utility in an application domain that constitutes an large sector of the economy. For more information please see the full position announcement at: http://www.diku.dk/~henglein/3gERP-positions.pdf Fritz Henglein henglein@diku.dk