[agents] Post-doc Position - Chaire IA BE4musIA (Belief Change for Multi-Source Information Analysis) - Lens (France)

[Sébastien Konieczny]

Post-doc Position - Chaire IA BE4musIA (Belief Change for Multi-Source Information Analysis) 	


We are offering a post-doc position in artificial intelligence. 
This position is in relation with the BE4musIA project (a French «Chaire IA» project) that is dedicated to the study of tools coming from belief change theory, and more generally from knowledge representation and reasoning, for improving multi-source information analysis.

** BE4musIA project in short

The aim of the BE4musIA project is to use and develop tools coming from knowledge representation and reasoning (KR) in order to perform an analysis of pieces of information coming from different sources. The idea is to be able to produce at the same time an assessment of the reliability of the sources and a coherent view of the world that takes into account the received pieces of information.

This problem of trying to find the most plausible beliefs from different sources providing conflicting pieces of information is quite a frequent pattern. This is typically the case in applications in which one works with several sensors (that are typically not totally reliable), when one receives information from different agents (while some agents can be non-reliable, or, worse than that, with some agents being enemies trying to mislead you), or when one query several databases in order to answer to a query of a user.

Our aim is to study the basic abstract problem, using tools mainly coming from the knowledge representation and reasoning (KR) area, in particular methods coming from belief revision and belief merging, that formalize rational belief change, as well as inconsistency measures, which allows us to measure the extent to which certain pieces of information are in conflict with each other.


** Topics for the position

We welcome applications in any subject related to the project, in particular:
o Belief Change
o Belief Merging
o Inconsistency handling
o Inconsistency measures
o Trust
o Reliability assessment
o Truth-tracking
o Query-answering using multiple sources
o Formal Ontologies
o Automated knowledge base Completion
o Game Theory
o Social Choice Theory

** Environment

The Be4musIA (permanent) members are Sébastien Konieczny (http://www.cril.fr/~konieczny), Zied Bouraoui (http://www.cril.fr/~bouraoui), Patricia Everaere(https://pro.univ-lille.fr/patricia-everaere-caillier/), Ramon Pino Pérez (https://dblp.org/pid/96/1310.html), and Ivan Varzinczak (http://ijv.ovh).

The position will be at CRIL (http://www.cril.fr), a CNRS lab in Université d’Artois, Lens (North of France). CRIL is one of the first French labs in symbolic AI (CRIL is the French lab with the highest number of papers at IJCAI).

** Position

The contract is a two-years full time position.
The position will be opened from 1st october 2021(flexible - this can be adapted if necessary).
The salary is the standard one for French post-doc positions (around 2700€ (gross) per month).

** Contact and Application

For any information or application please contact Sébastien Konieczny (konieczny at cril.fr <mailto:konieczny at cril.fr>).




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