[agents] Postdoc (CWI, Amsterdam): Learning utility functions for Negotiation & Intelligent Control

[Michael Kaisers]

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI, the Dutch national research institute
for mathematics and computer science) is looking for a postdoc to join the
Intelligent and Autonomous Systems research group. The pertinent project
"Grid-Friends" is an industry collaboration in which CWI provides the
scientific foundation. The position is embedded in a diverse team of
motivated junior and senior researchers with experience and ongoing
complementary projects on topics such as negotiation, smart energy systems,
(deep) multi-agent learning, and more.

Brief job description:

Autonomous control requires a model of the preferences for the user (or
users) to be represented. This model must deal with partial information and
uncertainty, which may be addressed with techniques from function
approximation and machine learning/planning under uncertainty. The
Grid-Friends project has a vacancy for a postdoctoral researcher to address
local control in smart energy cooperatives, in charge of optimizing the
activation of flexible assets and external negotiation commitments. The
vacant position aims to build on meaningful representations of partial
preference models, devise negotiation and/or control strategies given such
models, and build novel preference elicitation algorithms to optimally
query a user to improve utility function approximations.

More information about the position and the group can be found on our
website. Please apply before/until April 23 to be considered for the first
selection of interviews.

https://www.cwi.nl/jobs/vacancies/researcher-cwi-amsterdam-negotiation-with-
uncertain-collective-preferences-project-grid-friends
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