The Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) is a research center belonging to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
Research Topics include: Learning Systems, Intelligent Agents, Logic Reasoning and Search, Electronic Marketplaces, Autonomous Robots, Music with AI.
Research into artificial intelligence is evolving towards automatic conflict resolution. Carles Sierra is one the researchers who is working these lines. laTalaia interviews Dr. Sierra, vice-chancellor of the Institute for Research into Artificial Intelligence - IIIA-CSIC of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), who spoke for the first time about “technologies of agreement”.
Daniel Villatoro's PhD thesis "Social Norms for Self-policing Multi-agent Systems and Virtual Societies" has been awarded the "IFAAMAS-11 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award". This thesis has been done at the IIIA under the supervision of Dr. Jordi Sabater
Trust Alignment and Adaptation: Two Approaches for Talking about Trust in Multi-Agent Systems
The main IIIA room, the "Auditorium", has been named "Marc Esteva Vivanco". Marc was one of the most brilliant young scientists of the IIIA.