[agents] 1 postdoc and 4 PhD studentships on Human-Agent Collectives (Southampton)

[Sebastian Stein]

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The Agents, Interaction and Complexity research group at the University of Southampton welcomes applications for:

  - 1 postdoctoral researcher
  - 4 PhD students

on the topic of Human-Agent Collectives.
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We are establishing a new research team to work as part of a major UK/US-funded research programme (https://dais-ita.org/pub <https://dais-ita.org/pub>). Successful candidates will work on one (or both) of these research themes:

*** Incentives and influence in social networks ***
This theme explores how incentives and intelligent algorithms can be used to proactively influence the spread of messages within vast and partially observable social networks. Doing this effectively will allow organisations to effectively spread public health messages or to mobilise large numbers of people for crowdsourcing tasks.

*** Intelligent and robust service provisioning ***
This theme investigates intelligent mechanisms for allocating resources in dynamic and heterogeneous networks, comprising a range of machines owned by different stakeholders and ranging from potentially unreliable Internet-of-Things devices to powerful data centres. This will include applying game theory to model strategic (human and machine) actors.

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Please find further details about the posts and the application procedures here:

- Postdoctoral researcher: https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=859217FP <https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=859217FP>
- PhD students: https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=846817F7 <https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=846817F7>

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For informal enquiries, please contact Seb Stein (ss2 at ecs.soton.ac.uk <mailto:ss2 at ecs.soton.ac.uk>), Tim Norman (t.j.norman at soton.ac.uk <mailto:t.j.norman at soton.ac.uk>) or Nick Jennings (n.jennings at imperial.ac.uk <mailto:n.jennings at imperial.ac.uk>).