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Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi" - DEI
Organisation/Company University of Bologna Department Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi" - DEI
Offer Description
This is a call for expressions of interest. The formal selection process will be carried out by a selection committee at the University of Bologna.
PHD Title: Decision-Making in Proficiency and Risk-Aware Multi-Agent Systems
Program: PhD in Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering (ETIT), University of Bologna (UNIBO, Italy),
Project Context: The selected candidate will join the ERC Starting Grant project “CUE-GO – Contextual Radio Cues for Enhancing Decision-Making in Networks of Autonomous Agents” , which aims to develop a new methodological framework to improve decision-making in autonomous systems. The project combines high-frequency radio sensing and localization, semantic environmental mapping, and intelligent agent coordination.
Scientific Motivation: In everyday decision-making,



humans continuously assess how risky a situation is and how competent others are before deciding whether and how to cooperate. Endowing autonomous agents with similar estimation and decision capabilities remains an open engineering challenge. For example, in economic settings or time-critical missions, outcomes depend not only on environmental uncertainty, but also on uncertainty about the reliability and proficiency of other decision-makers involved. Robust multi-agent cooperation in these settings requires not only reasoning about environmental uncertainty but also estimating risk-related properties and proficiency of other agents and incorporating these estimates into decision-making.
Autonomous agents operating in real-world environments must make decisions under uncertainty while interacting with other agents whose behavior, competence, and reliability are only partially observable. Such agents may be artifi

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