The Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) offers nine four-year PhD scholarships for students pursuing a full-time PhD degree in Artificial Intelligence in the area of multiagent systems. More concretely the applicants will work on one or several of the following topics:
Normative systems
Social choice
Case-based reasoning
Semantic alignment
Electronic institutions
Trust and reputation methods
Negotiation and eProcurement
The students will be integrated in a Spanish large project on agreement technologies involving more than 50 researchers in computer science at IIIA-CSIC (Prof. Carles Sierra), Universitat Politècnica de València (Prof. Vicent Botti) and University Rey Juan Carlos I (Prof. Sascha Ossowski).
The IIIA belongs to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spains largest public institution devoted to research and technological development. The IIIA is a leading research centre in Europe in the areas of multiagent systems (Prof. Carles Sierra), machine learning (Prof. Ramon López de Mántaras and Prof. Enric Plaza), and uncertainty reasoning (Prof. Francesc Esteva and Prof. Lluís Godo). It attracts funding from the European, Spanish, and Catalan governments and has substantial collaborative research projects with industry. The IIIA is located in the campus of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and leads the universitys master and doctoral studies in artificial intelligence.