Projects

In the recent 5 years, MAS group members have contributed to the following projects related to the Bernoulli themes Computing & Cognition and Systems, Data & Society:

Computing and Cognition

• Christoff is leading the NWO VENI-project 'Democracy on Social Networks'
• Verbrugge, Verheij and Grossi are principal investigators in the Gravitation/Zwaartekracht project ‘Hybrid Intelligence: Augmenting Human Intellect’

• Verbrugge has led the NWO Vici-project ‘Cognitive systems in interaction: logical and computational models of higher-order social cognition'

• Verheij has led the NWO Forensic Science project 'Designing and Understanding Forensic Bayesian Networks with Arguments and Scenarios’

• Grossi is leading the AI Humaine project 'Collective Decisions in Law and Economics: A Computational Perspective’

• Christoff has participated in the DFG/GACR project ‘From shared evidence to group attitudes’

Systems, Data and Society

• Grossi has led the EPSRC project 'Foundations of Opinion Formation in Autonomous Systems’

• Verheij has led the NWO Forensic Science project 'Designing and Understanding Forensic Bayesian Networks with Arguments and Scenarios’

Social Cognition

This project is concerned with higher-order social reasoning. We investigate children’s development and adult’s limitations in reasoning about the mental states of other agents, including the representations that these agents have of other agents mental states. While computer programs can correctly apply any arbitrary amount of recursion, humans frequently lose track beyond second- or third-order social reasoning. To better understand the cognitive processes involved in higher-order social cognition we are using a close-knit combination of empirical research, logic, and computational modeling.

The project runs in the Bernouilli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence of the University of Groningen thanks to Rineke’s Verbrugge NWO Vici grant 277-80-001.

See more information about this project on the Social Cognition website.