Piter Dykstra

Piter Dykstra has a PhD subject on the social behaviour of rational artificial agents. Of particular interest is the emergence of social behaviour by agents that reason on the basis of knowledge acquired by the communication with other agents in their social networks. The project is realized in the context of a cooperation agreement between the Hanzehogeschool Groningen and the University of Groningen. The supervisors are Gerard Renardel de Lavalette, Rineke Verbrugge and Wander Jager.

Nijenborgh 9
9747AG
Netherlands

Email: p.dykstra@rug.nl
Web: http://www.math.rug.nl/~piter

Please direct correspondence about this article to Piter Dykstra

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Wander Jager

Wander Jager is the managing director of the Groningen Center for Social Complexity Studies (GCSCS). He is also an associate professor of marketing at the University of Groningen. He studied social psychology and obtained his PhD in the behavioural and social sciences, based on a dissertation about the computer modelling of consumer behaviours in situations of common resource use.

Nettelbosje 2
9747 AE Groningen
9700 AV
Netherlands

Email: w.jager@rug.nl
Web: http://www.rug.nl/w.jager

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Corinna Elsenbroich

Corinna Elsenbroich is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Social Simulation. Research interests include social influence and social norms, agent-based modelling and epistemological issues of the social sciences in general and agent-based modelling in particular. Her research background is in philosophy (of science), logic and policy research.

CRESS
University of Surrey
Guildford
GU2 7XH
United Kingdom

Email: c.elsenbroich@surrey.ac.uk

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Rineke Verbrugge

Rineke Verbrugge is full professor, holding the chair of Logic and Cognition at the University of Groningen's Institute of Artificial Intelligence ALICE since May 2009. She is a pioneer in building bridges between logic and cognitive science. She holds MSc and PhD degrees in Mathematics from the University of Amsterdam. She started working at the University of Groningen in 1997, after fixed-term positions in Prague, Gothenburg, at MIT and at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. From 2002, she has been the leader of the Multi-agent Systems research group in Groningen. She has authored numerous papers and several books, notably, with Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, "Teamwork in Multi-Agent Systems: A Formal Approach (Wiley, 2010). Rineke Verbrugge is the chair of the Dutch Association for Logic.

PO Box 407
Groningen
9700 AK
Netherlands

Email: l.c.verbrugge@rug.nl
Web: http://www.rinekeverbrugge.nl/

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Gerard Renardel de Lavalette

Current: professor at University of Groningen Past: assistant/associate professor at Utrecht University ICT specialist at Hoogovens IJmuiden Education: University of Amsterdam Erasmiaans Gymnasium, Rotterdam

Nijenborgh 9
9747AG Groningen
Netherlands

Email: g.r.renardel.de.lavalette@rug.nl
Web: http://www.cs.rug.nl/~grl