[Apologies for multiple copies] [Please, post as you deemed appropriate] The CLIP Group, Technical University of Madrid (UPM), offers 2 pre-doctoral, 4-year scholarships (research assistant level) available within the area of programming language technology: program analysis, transformation, and compilation. The work, intended to lead to a Ph.D., is to be done as a member of the CLIP Group http://www.clip.dia.fi.upm.es, within a nationally funded research project. The scholarships are funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology http://www.mcyt.es. Requirements for candidates are detailed in the CLIP group's job openings page: http://www.clip.dia.fi.upm.es/Job_Openings/jobs.html Application deadline is December 6th, 2002 (strict). Please, send a short CV, including previous research work and publications, and 1 to 3 references in electronic form in reply to this message. The main theme of the work envisioned within the scholarships is to advance the state of the art of automatic program manipulation techniques. The objective is to increase the power of such techniques and integrate them in practical tools within the Ciao multi-paradigm programming system, including logic, functional, constraint, and object-oriented programming. One additional objective is to target program optimizations to the needs of the computational elements of pervasive computing environments. One of the main lines of work implies extending the program compilation and development tools so that they can be used in such an environment to reduce program resource consumption and to instrument programs to perform dynamic control of such consumption during execution. The final aim is to develop an environment that would be an ideal candidate for programming ambient intelligence in mobile and pervasive computing environments.