[dais-ita] Nathan Griffiths Talk

[Stein S.]

Hi all,

Nathan Griffiths is visiting us on Tuesday to give an AIC talk from 12-1. See title/abstract below.

His work is highly relevant for many of you, and he has some time for short 1-to-1 talks just before or after his talk (until 3pm). Let me know if you’re interested (and any time constraints).

Best,
Seb



> Title: Convention Emergence and Concept Spread in Complex Social Networks
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> Abstract: Conventions are often used in multi-agent systems to achieve coordination amongst agents without creating additional system requirements (such as norms or obligations). Encouraging the emergence of robust conventions via fixed strategy agents is an established method of manipulating how conventions emerge. The propagation of conventions is a form of influence spread, and the use of fixed strategy agents for manipulating convention emergence is closely related to the influence maximisation problem in social networks. In this talk we consider (i) using fixed strategy agents to manipulate conventions, (ii) influence maximisation and minimisation in multi-concept networks, and (iii) a methodology for influence estimation.
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> Speaker’s Bio: Nathan Griffiths is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick and a Royal Society Industry Fellow.
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> His primary research areas are multi-agent systems, trust and reputation, social network analysis, and machine learning. His current research is focused around supporting cooperation through reputation and provenance, machine learning for intelligent vehicle applications including mining telemetry and mobility data, conventions and norm emergence, and influence manipulation in social networks.