Invited speakers

We are pleased to announce that Nigel Gilbert and Catholijn Jonker have accepted our invitation to be keynote speakers at our conference.

• Click here for the slides from Nigel Gilbert's talk: How could Artificial Economics be more cumulative?
• Click here for the slides from Catholijn Jonker's talk: Agent-based simulation for policy making: possible benefits and challenges

Nigel Gilbert

Nigel Gilbert is professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK. Nigel read for a first degree in Engineering, intending to go into the computer industry. However, he was lured into sociology and obtained his doctorate on the sociology of scientific knowledge from the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Michael Mulkay. His research and teaching interests have reflected his continuing interest in both sociology and computer science (and engineering more widely).

His main research interests are processual theories of social phenomena, the development of computational sociology and the methodology of computer simulation, especially agent-based modelling. He is Director of the Centre for Research in Social Simulation.

He is also Director of the University's Institute of Advanced Studies and responsible for its development as a leading centre for intellectual interchange.

He is the author or editor of several textbooks on sociological methods of research and statistics and editor of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation.

For more information, see Nigel Gilbert's homepage.

Catholijn Jonker

Catholijn Jonker (1967) is full professor of Man-Machine Interaction at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science of the Delft University of Technology. She studied computer science, and did her PhD studies at Utrecht University. After a post-doc position in Bern, Switzerland, she became assistant (later associate) professor at the Department of Artificial Intelligence of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. From september 2004 until september 2006 she was a full professor of Artificial Intelligence / Cognitive Science at the Nijmegen Institute of Cognition and Information of the Radboud University Nijmegen. She chaired De Jonge Akademie (Young Academy) of the KNAW (The Royal Netherlands Society of Arts and Sciences) in 2005 and 2006, and she is a member of the same organisation from 2005 through 2010.

Her recent publications address cognitive processes and concepts such as trust, negotiation, and the dynamics of individual agents and organisations. In Delft she works with an interdisciplinary team to engineer human experience through multi-modal interaction between natural and artificial actors in a social dynamic context. End 2007 her NWO-STW VICI project “Pocket Negotiator” has been awarded. In this project she develops intelligent decision support systems for negotiation.

For more information, see Catholijn Jonker's homepage.