Agents with Theory of Mind Play Hanabi

Nieves Montes, a Ph.D. student at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute in Barcelona, Spain, joins us. Her PhD research revolves around value-based reasoning in relation to norms. She shares her latest study, Combining theory of mind and abductive reasoning in agent‑oriented programming.

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Nieves Montes: Nieves Montes is a PhD student at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute in Barcelona, working in the Multiagent Systems department under the supervision of Carles Sierra and Nardine Osman. Her research is concerned with socially-oriented AI, through the modeling of values to realize ethically aware software agents, computational models for modeling peers, and the regulation of autonomy through norms. She has published her research on renowned academic journals, such as the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. Her first contact with this research agenda took place during her master’s thesis at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Prior to that, she obtained bachelor degrees in Physics and Chemistry from the same university.