Description

Leader of the group Intelligent and Autonomous Systems: Eric Pauwels.

IAS: Learning, planning and resource allocation for intelligent, strategic agents

Research Objectives

Combining expertise from both mathematics (e.g. stochastics, game theory, operation research) and computer science (artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computation), IAS researchers conduct research in:

Data-efficient, robust, transferable and explainable learning, planning and resource allocation in multi-agent systems.
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Multi-Agent Systems and Human-AI collectives (HAIC): investigating strategic and emergent behavior in multi-agents systems or collectives comprising both humans and AI agents, involving research topics ranging from negotiation and opponent modeling, to auction bidding, mechanism design and collective decision making.
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Explainable and Responsible AI
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Fundamental problems inspired by applications to energy systems, logistics, negotiations, and games as general models of strategic interactions.
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Research: Motivation and Context

Increasingly, our social and technological world is organised around complex systems. These are dynamic networks of interacting nodes (or agents) that continuously exchange digital or physical resources, including data or information, energy, materials and products. The agents in these systems face real challenges, as they often only have access to partial and noisy information and need to operate in a constantly changing and uncertain environment. As a consequence, there is an unrelenting pressure to improve the network’s overall performance and resilience by making the individual nodes more intelligent and autonomous.

In our research group, we study generic and fundamental mechanisms that enable the emergence of various degrees of organization, intelligence and autonomy in such systems, and apply them to concrete problems of societal relevance.

Opportunities and Community Building

Seminars For more information on our seminars, visit the seminar webpage.
Internships We invite talented Master's and PhD candidates to have a look at our internships.
Supporting the AI community We strongly believe that successful research is a community effort to which we want to contribute:
- Presentations and educational material
- Organisational and community-building activities

Vacancies

No vacancies currently.

News

Tim Baarslag finalist for New Scientist Wetenschapstalent 2018

Tim Baarslag, researcher at the Intelligent and Autonomous Systems group at CWI, is one of the five finalists for the ‘New Scientist Wetenschapstalent 2018’ prize. This prize is awarded annually by New Scientist to a young researcher with a high scientific and social impact who reaches a broad audience through his or her outreach activities.

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Vote for Tim Baarslag as ‘New Scientist Wetenschapstalent 2018’

CWI's Tim Baarslag has been nominated for the ‘New Scientist Wetenschapstalent 2018’ prize. This prize is awarded annually to a young researcher with a high scientific and social impact, who reaches a broad audience through his or her outreach activities.

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Inaugural lecture Nanda Piersma: urban analytics for smart cities

On 17 April 2018, Nanda Piersma will give her inaugural lecture titled ‘Through the clouds, urban analytics for smart cities’. Piersma is part of CWI’s Intelligent and Autonomous Systems research group and professor by special appointment at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.

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Energy Intranets project awarded by NWO

In the 'Energy Systems Integration & Big Data' round NWO has awarded six projects. CWI is in the lead of one programme and takes part in another.

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Members

Associated Members

Current projects with external funding

Lectoraat Urban Analytics (+ verlenging) ()
Advanced Planning & Scheduling (APS)
Coordinating Multi-deal Bilateral Negotiations (COMBINE)
Energy Intranets (NEAT)
Resilience and Cyber Security of Integrated Cyber-Physical Energy Systems (RESCUE)
Using small data and big data: Neighborhood Energy & Data Management Integration System (S&B NEDMIS)
Testing and Evaluating Sophisticated information and communication Technologies for enaBling scalablE smart griD Deployment (TESTBED-2)