[alife] vacancy in Brussels

Tom Lenaerts tlenaert at gmail.com
Fri May 10 08:58:48 PDT 2013


Dear all,

There is an open postdoc position available in the Artificial intelligence group at the VUB in Brussels on a topic related to (evolutionary) game theory/preference handling/machine learing/AI .

The project
Many strategic situations are characterized by player’s preferences that take into account the well being of others. These preferences guide humans in their choices with whom to participate in economical or social activities. Little attention has been given to how group formation shapes players’ beliefs concerning preferences and how preferences guide the formation of groups.
In this project you will investigate how these other regarding preferences influence the matching of players, both in pairwise and N-player scenarios, and vice versa how group dynamics shape the beliefs concerning preferences (i.e. formation and adaptation of belief models) of the individual agent’s participating in two concrete strategic problems: the dictator game and its extension the trust game.
Your aim will be to examine how current computational research on belief modeling and stable matching may be combined with the population dynamical models classically used in evolutionary game theory (EGT). The goal is to provide insight into how collective systems are shaped by beliefs/preferences models (and vice versa), bringing the abstract results typical for EGT closer to realm of real-world strategic situations.
Questions about content?
Contact Tom Lenaerts on tlenaert at vub.ac.be

More information or application;
http://vub.talentfinder.be/en/vacature/4315/we-2013-010--associate-academic-staff--scientific-staff--100--evolutionary-game-theory-artificial-intelligence-preference-handling/

Kind regards

Tom Lenaerts

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