[PlanetKR] offre postdoc

Andreas HERZIG andreas.herzig at irit.fr
Thu Mar 24 09:48:56 UTC 2022


Dear colleagues,

it was by error that this email got also sent to the planetkr list, 
please discard it. (I wanted to give the address to a colleague, that's 
how it got inserted.)

Best regards--Andreas


Le 24/03/2022 à 10:45, Andreas HERZIG a écrit :
> Le 23/03/2022 à 16:03, Martin DIEGUEZ LODEIRO a écrit :
>> est-ce que tu as les liens de logic @Bonn, folli ... ? Je ne les 
>> connais pas.
>> Martin.
> Voila mes listes: logic at math.uni-bonn.de , folli at folli.info , 
> planetkr at kr.org
>
> Tiens, j'en profite pour te faire relire une proposition de postdoc 
> que je suis en train de rediger. Le truc un peu inhabituel est que je 
> demande au candidat de rediger une petite proposition ; keske tu en 
> penses ?
>
> Andi
>
>
> Postdoc Position on Advanced Planning
> =====================================
>
> Deciding and learning how to act pose fundamental problems for an 
> intelligent agent. AI planning traditionally focusses on 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 the behaviour of actions. More 
> advanced forms of planning should include things such as reasoning 
> about other agents' beliefs, goals, intentions and actions; learning 
> from past experiences; monitoring the actual outcome of actions and 
> learning possibly unexpected outcomes and dealing with such new 
> outcomes. A further aspect is that empowering an AI agent with the 
> ability to self-deliberate its own behavior and act autonomously 
> carries significant risks, which requires to balance such power with 
> safety: the autonomy of the agent must be guarded by human-guided 
> specifications and oversight in order to make it verifiable and 
> comprehensible in human terms and ultimately trustworthy.
> Appliants 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 (AIJ) and to planning inspired from 
> Bratman's theory of intention (KI,JELIA).
> The duration of the contract is 18 months (possibly with an 
> extension). The salary is between 2.263€ and 3.783€ net, depending on 
> the experience of the candidate. Starting date is June 2022 or later.
>
> * Environment
> 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 5 "Deciding and Learning how to Act". 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 at irit.fr before April 15:
> • CV;
> • Up to 3 reference letters;
> • A short proposal of research activities (max 1 page).
>
> * References
> • 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, Laurent Perrussel, Zhanhao Xiao, Dongmo Zhang: 
> Refinement of Intentions. JELIA 2016: 558-563.
> • Andreas Herzig, Emiliano Lorini, Laurent Perrussel, Zhanhao Xiao: 
> BDI Logics for BDI Architectures: Old Problems, New Perspectives. 
> Künstliche Intell. 31(1): 73-83 (2017).
> • 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).
>


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