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Carles
Carles
 
Sierra
Sierra

Research Professor
Research Professor


Carles
Carles
 
Sierra
Sierra
Research Professor
Research Professor
Director
Director

Multiagent Systems
Multiagent Systems
(+34) 93 580 9570 ext.
431801
431801
sierra@iiia.csic.es
sierra@iiia.csic.es
Research areas:
  • Multiagent Systems
  • Normative Systems
  • Computational Ontologies
  • Trust and Reputation
  • Argumentation
  • Bioinformatics
  • Ethics & AI
  • Foundations of Databases
  • Machine Learning
  • Agent-Based Simulation
  • Combinatorial Optimisation
  • Multi-Objective Optimization
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Optimisation
  • Team Formation
  • Social Simulation
  • Automated Reasoning
  • Data Privacy
  • Multiagent Systems
  • Normative Systems
  • Computational Ontologies
  • Trust and Reputation
  • Argumentation
  • Bioinformatics
  • Ethics & AI
  • Foundations of Databases
  • Machine Learning
  • Agent-Based Simulation
  • Combinatorial Optimisation
  • Multi-Objective Optimization
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Optimisation
  • Team Formation
  • Social Simulation
  • Automated Reasoning
  • Data Privacy
Impact areas:
  • Ethics
  • Social Networking
  • Healthcare
  • Creativity
  • Education
  • Industry
  • Tourism
  • Ethics
  • Social Networking
  • Healthcare
  • Creativity
  • Education
  • Industry
  • Tourism
SDGs:
  • GOAL 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • GOAL 03: Good Health and Well-being
  • GOAL 04: Quality Education
  • GOAL 10: Reduced Inequality
  • GOAL 09: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
  • SDGs: General
  • GOAL 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • GOAL 03: Good Health and Well-being
  • GOAL 04: Quality Education
  • GOAL 10: Reduced Inequality
  • GOAL 09: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
  • SDGs: General
In Press
Nardine Osman,  Ronald Chenu-Abente,  Qiang Shen,  Carles Sierra,  & Fausto Giunchiglia (In Press). Empowering Users in Online Open Communities. SN Computer Science. [BibTeX]  [PDF]
2024
Jianglin Qiao,  Dave de Jonge,  Dongmo Zhang,  Simeon Simoff,  Carles Sierra,  & Bo Du (2024). Extended Abstract: Price of Anarchy of Traffic Assignment with Exponential Cost Functions. Mehdi Dastani, Jaime Simão Sichman, Natasha Alechina, & Virginia Dignum (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2024, Auckland, New Zealand, May 6-10, 2024 (pp. 2842--2844). ACM. https://doi.org/10.5555/3635637.3663307. [BibTeX]
Nardine Osman,  Bruno Rosell,  Andrew Koster,  Marco Schorlemmer,  Carles Sierra,  & Jordi Sabater-Mir (2024). The uHelp Application. Nardine Osman (Eds.), Electronic Institutions: Applications to uHelp, WeCurate and PeerLearn (pp 61--79). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65605-2_3. [BibTeX]
Manel Rodríguez Soto,  Nardine Osman,  Carles Sierra,  Paula Sánchez Veja,  Rocío Cintas García,  Cristina Farriols Danes,  Montserrat García Retortillo,  & Sílvia Mínguez Maso (2024). Towards value awareness in the medical field. (pp. 8). Special Session on AI with Awareness Inside of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2024). [BibTeX]  [PDF]
Manel Rodríguez Soto,  Nardine Osman,  Carles Sierra,  Nieves Montes,  Jordi Martínez Roldán,  Paula Sánchez Veja,  Rocío Cintas García,  Cristina Farriols Danes,  Montserrat García Retortillo,  & Sílvia Mínguez Maso (2024). User Study Design for Identifying the Semantics of Bioethical Principles. (pp. 16). Second International Workshop on Value Engineering in Artificial Intelligence (VALE2024) at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Santiago de Compostela). [BibTeX]  [PDF]
2023
Jianglin Qiao,  Dave de Jonge,  Dongmo Zhang,  Simeon Simoff,  Carles Sierra,  & Bo Du (2023). Price of anarchy of traffic assignment with exponential cost functions. Auton. Agents Multi Agent Syst., 37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-023-09625-6. [BibTeX]
Athina Georgara,  Raman Kazhamiakin,  Ornella Mich,  Alessio Palmero Approsio,  Jean-Christoph Pazzaglia,  Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar,  & Carles Sierra (2023). The AI4Citizen pilot: Pipelining AI-based technologies to support school-work alternation programmes. Applied Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-023-04758-3. [BibTeX]  [PDF]
2022
Nieves Montes,  Nardine Osman,  & Carles Sierra (2022). A computational model of Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development framework. Artificial Intelligence, 311, 103756. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2022.103756. [BibTeX]  [PDF]
Jianglin Qiao,  Dave de Jonge,  Dongmo Zhang,  Carles Sierra,  & Simeon Simoff (2022). A Hybrid Model of Traffic Assignment and Control for Autonomous Vehicles. Reyhan Aydogan, Natalia Criado, Jerôme Lang, Victor Sanchez-Anguix, & Marc Serramia (Eds.), {PRIMA}2022: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems - 24th International Conference, Valencia, Spain, November 16-18, 2022, Proceedings (pp. 208--226). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21203-1\_13. [BibTeX]
Athina Georgara,  Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar,  & Carles Sierra (2022). Allocating teams to tasks: an anytime heuristic competence-based approach. Dorothea Baumeister, & Jörg Rothe (Eds.), Multi-Agent Systems - 19th European Conference, {EUMAS}2022, Düsseldorf, Germany, September 14-16, 2022, Revised Selected Papers . Springer International Publishing. [BibTeX]  [PDF]
Athina Georgara,  Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar,  Carles Sierra,  Ornella Mich,  Raman Kazhamiakin,  Alessio P. Approsio,  & Jean-Christophe Pazzaglia (2022). An Anytime Heuristic Algorithm for Allocating Many Teams to Many Tasks. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems . International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. [BibTeX]  [PDF]
Georgina Curto,  Nieves Montes,  Carles Sierra,  Nardine Osman,  & Flavio Comim (2022). A norm optimisation approach to {SDGs}: tackling poverty by acting on discrimination. Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence . International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2022/726. [BibTeX]
Athina Georgara,  Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar,  & Carles Sierra (2022). Building Contrastive Explanations for Multi-Agent Team Formation. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems . International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. [BibTeX]  [PDF]
Nieves Montes,  Nardine Osman,  & Carles Sierra (2022). Combining Theory of~Mind and~Abduction for~Cooperation Under Imperfect Information. Multi-Agent Systems (pp 294--311). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20614-6_17. [BibTeX]  [PDF]
Athina Georgara,  Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar,  & Carles Sierra (2022). Privacy-Aware Explanations for Team Formation. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems . [BibTeX]  [PDF]
Alejandra Aberasturi Gómez,  Jordi Sabater-Mir,  & Carles Sierra (2022). Probabilistic Models for Competence Assessment in Education. Applied Sciences, 12. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12052368. [BibTeX]  [PDF]
Nieves Montes,  & Carles Sierra (2022). Synthesis and Properties of Optimally Value-Aligned Normative Systems. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 74, 1739--1774. https://doi.org/10.1613/jair.1.13487. [BibTeX]
2021
Carles Sierra (2021). AI's Responsible Agency. . [BibTeX]
Nieves Montes,  Nardine Osman,  & Carles Sierra (2021). Enabling Game-Theoretical Analysis of Social Rules. IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA210120. [BibTeX]  [PDF]
Athina Georgara,  Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar,  & Carles Sierra (2021). Towards a Competence-Based Approach to Allocate Teams to Tasks. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (pp. 1504–1506). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. [BibTeX]  [PDF]