At VRAIN, research in intelligent agents and human-centered AI focuses on multi-agent systems, agreement technologies, and the design of AI systems that operate effectively alongside people in socio-technical contexts.

 

Work in this area covers agreement technologies for agent negotiation and consensus, agent-based simulation platforms for urban mobility and smart city scenarios, and human-centered AI systems for human-machine collaboration. Platforms developed at VRAIN include SPADE and Magentix2, which provide infrastructures for building open multi-agent systems with applications in logistics, e-commerce, healthcare, and industry.

 

Research also covers affective computing — systems that recognise and respond to human emotional states — and the application of agent-based AI techniques to serious games for education, rehabilitation, and cognitive stimulation.