A PhD research fellowship is offered in the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI), of the Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering (IME), at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

The planned research will address challenges related to one of the two main areas specified below.

• Safety analysis based on the requirements available in the early software development activities. Possible research areas could be for instance specification of requirements in a way that is suitable for safety analysis, software safety analysis in agile projects or safety analysis based on UML diagrams, e.g. use cases or sequence diagrams.

• The application of methods from human reliability analysis (HRA) on software development. How can methods and experience from HRA help us to improve the software development processes?

It is, however, possible for the applicant to suggest other related areas of research but the suggested research area must be strongly related to the advisor’s research interests.

Relevant education as Master in Computer Science, Master in Software Engineering or equivalent is required. Applicants must satisfy the formal requirements for admission to the PhD studies at NTNU. See http://www.ime.ntnu.no/Dr.gradsstudier/ for detailed information on the PhD programs administrated by IME.

Further information on the fellowship may be obtained from Prof. Tor Stålhane (stalhane at idi.ntnu.no)

Applications should be sent to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway or by email to: . Applications should be marked IME-049-2008. Closing date is 2008-12-15.