L'Institut d'Investigació en Intel.ligència Artificial (IIIA) és un centre dedicat a la investigació en Intel.ligència Artificial (IA) que forma part del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Els temes d'investigació són: Sistemes d'Aprenentatge, Agents Intel.ligents, Raonament Lògic i Cerques, Mercats Electrònics, Robots Autònoms, Música amb IA.
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.
iSOCO (http://www.isoco.com) releases iCateogory (http://www.isoco.com/web/guest/iquotes-suite/icategory-category-manageme...), an innovative product aimed at helping professional buyers automate the analysis and knowledge management of their procurement categories along with the design of purchasing strategies. iCategory is the result of a tight collaboration between iSOCO and the IIIA over the last four years.
The paper "Distinguished algebraic semantics for t-norm based fuzzy logics: Methods and algebraic equivalencies", by Cintula, P., Esteva, F., Gispert, J., Godo, L., Montagna, F., Noguera, C., is the most cited paper of the journal "Annals of Pure and Applied Logic" since 2007.