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Postdoctoral position on planning with others' beliefs and goals, Toulouse (France), Deadline: 30 Apr 2022
Postdoc position on planning with others' beliefs and goals
* Job Description
Coming up with plans to achieve their goals---and more generally deciding and
learning how to act---are fundamental problems for intelligent agents. The
traditional focus of AI planning is the generation of plans for an individual
agent under the hypothesis that no other agent intervenes and that the planning
agent has perfect knowledge of the environment and action pre- and
postconditions. More expressive forms of planning should include things such as
reasoning about other agents' beliefs, goals, intentions and actions ('theory
of mind'); learning from past experiences; monitoring the actual outcome of
actions and learning possibly unexpected outcomes and dealing with such new
outcomes. Formal tools such as logics of knowledge and belief, logics of goals,
intentions and actions, game theory, and learning can be expected to be
building blocks of such formalisms.
Applicants should propose a short research project related to these themes,
possibly relating it to previous work of ours where we have contributed to
epistemic planning and to planning inspired from Bratman's theory of intention.
The duration of the contract is 18 months (possibly with an extension). Gross
salary is between 2.663€ (about 2.131€ net) and 3.783€ (about 3.027€ net),
depending on the experience of the candidate. Starting date is September 1,
2022.
* Context
The Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT) is one of the
biggest computer science labs in France. Its AI Department has a long-standing
tradition of research in knowledge representation and reasoning. IRIT
participates in the ANITI project on hybrid AI.
The postdoc position is within the TAILOR network (Trustworthy AI: Integrating
Learning, Optimization and Reasoning, https://tailor-network.eu/) in which
CNRS-IRIT takes part, and is part of its workpackage WP5 "Deciding and Learning
how to Act", possibly in connection with WP6 "Learning and reasoning in social
contexts". TAILOR is one of four networks of excellence working on aspects of
trustworthy AI funded under the H2020-ICT-48-2020 call.
* Profile and Application
We are looking for a candidate with a background in knowledge representation
and/or machine learning who is interested in their integration in the context
of planning. Candidates should send the following to Andreas.Herzig@irit.fr
before April 30:
• CV;
• Up to 2 reference letters;
• A short proposal of research activities (max 1 page).
* Bibliography
• Michael Bratman: Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason. Harvard University
Press, Cambridge (1987). Reedited 1999 with CSLI Publications.
• Philip R. Cohen, Hector J. Levesque: Intention is choice with commitment. J.
Artif. Intell. 42(2), 213–261 (1990).
• Martin C. Cooper, Andreas Herzig, Faustine Maffre, Frédéric Maris, Elise
Perrotin, Pierre Régnier: A lightweight epistemic logic and its application to
planning. Artif. Intell. 298: 103437 (2021).
• Andreas Herzig, Emiliano Lorini, Laurent Perrussel, Zhanhao Xiao: BDI Logics
for BDI Architectures: Old Problems, New Perspectives. Künstliche Intell.
31(1): 73-83 (2017).
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