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PhD student position in "Recognition of non-cooperative behaviour", Groningen (The Netherlands), Deadline: 31 Aug 2020

Dear colleague,

Come work with us in Groningen, in our national Gravitation project 
'Hybrid Intelligence'! 4 year PhD position on 'Recognition of 
non-cooperative behavior'. For MSc graduates in AI, CS, logic, or 
cognitive science. Supervisors: Prof. dr. Rineke Verbrugge (University of 
Groningen) & Prof. dr. Catholijn Jonker (Leiden University, TU Delft).

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In hybrid intelligent systems in which humans and agents interact 
together, it is important to be able to understand and detect 
non-cooperative behavior such as lying and other forms of deception, both 
in people and in software agents. Cognitive scientists have shown that 
understanding the concept of lying and being able to maintain a lie over 
time requires second-order theory of mind: reasoning about what the other 
person (or agent) thinks you think. The same level of theory of mind is 
also required for detecting whether others are lying to you. In this PhD 
project we will:

-investigate the logical and computational foundations of deception and 
deception detection in hybrid groups;

-lay the theoretical groundwork for modelling and analyzing 
non-cooperative behavior in several communicative contexts such as 
negotiation games and coalition formation games;

-develop principled methods for the design of software agents that can 
detect when other group members are engaged in non-cooperative behavior 
such as lying;

-build agent-based models and/or computational cognitive models of 
deception and deception detection;

-use simulation experiments in order to predict the outcomes of lab 
experiments to be performed.

The PhD project is part of a 10 year, 19 million euro research program on 
'Hybrid Intelligence: Augmenting Human Intellect?, in which 6 Dutch 
universities collaborate. See: https://www.hybrid-intelligence-centre.nl

The application deadline is 31 August 2020. More information about this 
position can be found on: 
https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S0007UDP&cat=phd

Best wishes, Rineke Verbrugge
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