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Netherlands
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
59
Citations
13576
World Ranking
3434
National Ranking
37

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2012 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Catholijn M. Jonker is affiliated with Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Their research spans a variety of fields, primarily within computer science and social sciences. The scientist's work encompasses multiple subfields including artificial intelligence, social psychology, management science and operations research, safety research, and sociology and political science.

Their principal research topics include:

  • Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
  • Auction Theory and Applications
  • Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
  • Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge

Catholijn M. Jonker's recent publications illustrate these themes. Notable papers include:

  • "Model-based Reinforcement Learning: A Survey," 2023, published in Foundations and Trends® in Machine Learning
  • "A Research Agenda for Hybrid Intelligence: Augmenting Human Intellect With Collaborative, Adaptive, Responsible, and Explainable Artificial Intelligence," 2020, published in Computer
  • "Meaningful human control: actionable properties for AI system development," 2022, published in AI and Ethics
  • "Model-based Reinforcement Learning: A Survey," 2020, published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Reasoning about responsibility in autonomous systems: challenges and opportunities," 2022, published in AI & Society

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
  • AI and Ethics
  • AI & Society
  • ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems

Their collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Myrthe L. Tielman, Luciano Cavalcante Siebert, Enrico Liscio, and M. Birna van Riemsdijk, indicating interdisciplinary and sustained research partnerships.

Catholijn M. Jonker was recognized as a Member of the Academia Europaea in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Deliberative Normative Agents: Principles and Architecture.

    C. Castelfranchi;F. Dignum;C. M. Jonker;J. Treur

  • Model-based Reinforcement Learning: A Survey

    Thomas M. Moerland;Joost Broekens;Catholijn M. Jonker

  • Formal Analysis of Models for the Dynamics of Trust Based on Experiences

    Catholijn M. Jonker;Jan Treur

  • Coactive design: designing support for interdependence in joint activity

    Matthew Johnson;Jeffrey M. Bradshaw;Paul J. Feltovich;Catholijn M. Jonker

  • Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems

    Maria Gini;Onn Shehory;Takayuki Ito;Catholijn Jonker

  • A Research Agenda for Hybrid Intelligence: Augmenting Human Intellect With Collaborative, Adaptive, Responsible, and Explainable Artificial Intelligence

    Zeynep Akata;Dan Balliet;Maarten de Rijke;Frank Dignum

  • A Language and Environment for Analysis of Dynamics by SimulaTiOn

    T. Bosse;C.M. Jonker;L. van der Meij;J. Treur

  • Compositional Verification of Multi-Agent Systems: a Formal Analysis of Pro-activeness and Reactiveness

    Catholijn M. Jonker;Jan Treur

  • GENIUS: AN INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENT FOR SUPPORTING THE DESIGN OF GENERIC AUTOMATED NEGOTIATORS

    Raz Lin;Sarit Kraus;Sarit Kraus;Tim Baarslag;Dmytro Tykhonov

  • Evaluating practical negotiating agents: Results and analysis of the 2011 international competition

    Tim Baarslag;Katsuhide Fujita;Enrico H. Gerding;Koen Hindriks

  • Emotion in reinforcement learning agents and robots: a survey

    Thomas M. Moerland;Joost Broekens;Catholijn M. Jonker

  • An agent architecture for multi-attribute negotiation using incomplete preference information

    Catholijn M. Jonker;Valentin Robu;Jan Treur

  • Learning about the opponent in automated bilateral negotiation: a comprehensive survey of opponent modeling techniques

    Tim Baarslag;Mark J. Hendrikx;Koen V. Hindriks;Catholijn M. Jonker

  • Specification and Verification of Dynamics in Agent Models

    Tibor Bosse;Catholijn M. Jonker;Lourens Van Der Meij;Alexei Sharpanskykh

  • Shared Mental Models

    Catholijn M. Jonker;M. Birna van Riemsdijk;Bas Vermeulen

  • Principles of component-based design of intelligent agents

    Frances M. T. Brazier;Catholijn M. Jonker;Jan Treur

  • The first automated negotiating agents competition (ANAC 2010)

    Katsuhide Fujita;Reyhan Aydoğan;Tim Baarslag;Koen Hindriks

  • Compositional Design and Reuse of a Generic Agent Model .

    Frances M. T. Brazier;Catholijn M. Jonker;Jan Treur

  • An agent architecture for multi-attribute negotiation

    Catholijn M. Jonker;Jan Treur

  • LEADSTO: a language and environment for analysis of dynamics by simulation

    Tibor Bosse;Catholijn M. Jonker;Lourens van der Meij;Jan Treur

  • Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems

    Catholijn M. Jonker;Stacy Marsella;John Thangarajah;Karl Tuyls

  • Shared mental models: a conceptual analysis

    Catholijn M. Jonker;M. Birna van Riemsdijk;Bas Vermeulen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Treur
Jan Treur Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Koen V. Hindriks
Koen V. Hindriks Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Virginia Dignum
Virginia Dignum Umeå University
Frances M. T. Brazier
Frances M. T. Brazier Delft University of Technology
Frank Dignum
Frank Dignum Umeå University
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Sarit Kraus
Sarit Kraus Bar-Ilan University
Mehdi Dastani
Mehdi Dastani Utrecht University
Hans V. Westerhoff
Hans V. Westerhoff Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jacky L. Snoep
Jacky L. Snoep Stellenbosch University

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