Catholijn M. Jonker

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Contents

• How to reach me
• Research related activities
  • Current research projects
  • Research interests
  • Publications and papers as html file, as pdf file,
  • Application areas
• Ph.D. students
• Boards, Committees & Organization
• Teaching
• I am PhD mentor for the faculty, read more
• Curriculum Vitae
• Personal Interests

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How to reach me

Research related activities

Current research projects

• Negotiation Support Systems for which I received a (NWO-STW VICI grant). My aim with this project is to support human negotiators. With the team I put together for this project I study ways to elicit information from negotiation parties about their preference profiles and underlying concerns. Qualitative reasoning about the profiles and concerns is studied as that should make it easier to explain the reasoning to the human user. As emotions can play an important role in negotiation, a training environment is created to learn how to deal with emotions in negotiations. The negotiation environment GENIUS is used by my most fierce competitors for developing the best negotiation strategies in automated negotiations.
• Sensing Heterogeneous Information Network Environment (SHINE). Research theme: How can heterogeneous resources (people, mobile sensors, fixed sensors, social media, information systems, ...) self-organize for answering information needs? My contribution will be in the field of negotiation and of organisation-aware agents.
• Smart Roads: can agent technology and smart environments be used to improve throughput and safety on highways? In this project behaviour of human drivers is modelled into agents and compared to rational driving behaviour. If the look-ahead of drivers is increased and drivers are presented with the possibility to negotiate on where and when to merge, does that improve throughput? What would that do to safety?
• New Governance Models for Next Generation Infrastructures (NeGoM) is a project that studies decentralised decision making. My role in the project is to support such decision making with multi-party negotiation tools and strategies.
• Trust Across Cultures in Trade (TACT) together with Wageningen University and the Landbouw Economisch Instituut. In the context of this research project the influence of culture on negotiation is studied. The reader is cordially invited to play the Lemon Car Game, and support this research.
• Shared Mental Models is a project that studies what human and artificial actors should know about each other to get the best experience and task performance. A research questions is, how to formalize that knowledge in what is known as shared mental models. A related question is how to quantifiably measure sharedness and develop agents that work to improve sharedness.

Research interests

• Decision Support systems, in particular for negotiation.
• Analysis and Modelling of Cognitive Processes, such as Conditioning, Learning Paradigms, Negotiation, Trust and Deception, Human Reasoning, Dog cognition.
• Dynamics of Behaviour of Agents, for which I research Analysis Methods, Component-based Modelling, Simulation, Software Support,
• Organization Dynamics, for which I research Analysis Methods Component-based Modelling, Simulation, Software Support, Organization Theory.

Publications and papers as html file, as pdf file

Application Areas

• Cybernetic Incident Management & International Peace Keeping Missions
• Animal behaviour
• Logistics
• Negotiation
• Trade

Current Ph.D. students

1. Tim Baarslag, Bidding Strategies for Multi-issue Bargaining. Started 1 February 2010. Co-supervised by Dr. Koen Hindriks.
2. Chris Detweiler on the topic of communication Support in health care with an emphasis on design for values. Supervision team: Dr. Koen Hindriks (daily supervision), Catholijn Jonker and Jeroen van den Hoven (promotors). The project is financed by the 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology and Almende.
3. Duco Ferro, supervision together with Dr. Alfons Salden. Both work for Almende. The project is about matching to support professionals in professional task settings.
4. Matthew Johnson, IHMC in the USA. Co-active Design. Started 2009. Co-supervised by Dr. Jeff Bradshaw and Dr. Birna van Riemsdijk.
5. Iulia Lefter, Facial Expression Analysis for Consumer Behaviour Interpretation, daily supervision by Prof.dr.drs. Rothkrantz.
6. Alina Pommeranz part of the VICI Pocket Negotiator project. Supervision together with Dr. Pascal Wiggers.
7. Mirela Popa, Aggression Detection. Daily supervision by Prof.dr.drs. Rothkrantz.
8. Yang Yang Shi, Chinese Research Council. Dnymaic Bayesian Models for Natural Text Understanding. Started September 2009. Co-supervised by Dr. Pascal Wiggers.
9. Nanja Smets (guest) works on the MECA project, supervision together with Prof. Dr. Mark Neerincx. Her project is related to the Shared Mental Models project.
10. Wietske Visser, part of the VICI Pocket Negotiator project. Supervision together with Dr. Koen Hindriks.
11. Chang Wang, Chinese Research Council. Machine Vision in Dynamic Environments for Robots. Started November 2010. Co-supervised by Dr. Koen Hindriks and Dr. Pascal Wiggers.
12. Wangyun Wei, Chinese Research Council. GOAL and Robots. Started December 2010. Co-supervised by Dr. Koen Hindriks.
13. Junchao Xu, Chinese Research Council. GOAL and Robots. Started December 2010. Co-supervised by Dr. Koen Hindriks.
14. Janneke van der Zwaan, Buddy for Children to counter Cyberbullying. Started November 2010. Co-supervised by Dr. Virginia Dignum.

List of students who succesfully defended their thesis

Boards, Committees & Organization

• Overview of programme committees, boards, and other committees that I am or have been part of.
• Selected events
  • Programme chair of AAMAS 2013 and of IEA/AIE 2013
  • Senior programme committee member of AAMAS 2012

Teaching

I am currently involved in the following courses (more information on Blackboard):

• IN4010TU Artificial Intelligence Techniques
• TI1600 Project Multi-Agent Systemen
• TI2800 Contrextproject Crisis Management