I am currently an associate professor et University Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6. I work in the Computer Ssience (LIP6 lab), and belong to the « Systèmes Multi-Agents (SMA)» team that is part of the DESIR department.

Broadly speaking, I aim to study the benefits of  computer modeling and simulation to Human and Social Sciences, especially Economics. For such purpose, I designed a modelling methodology, known as the psychomimetic approach, to prescribe how a formal (e.g. mathematical and/or

computational) model can represent a given psychological theory for a given task. I applied this methodology to build cognitive models of Human Judgment (Categ_ART) and Decision Making (RALF), using Neural Networks. Recently I extended these works on individual cognition to social processes, inspired by Social Psychology, being associated with a research group on Economic Psychology (GRASP, University of Paris 5).

In January 2005, within the Computer Science Laboratory of University Paris 6 (LIP 6), I left the Machine Learning Group to join the "Multi-Agent Systems" Team, as my goal is now to implement these inspirations from Social Psychology and Economics, using Multi-Agent System (MAS). A MAS-based decision model, CODAGE, has been built to move towards that direction (AAMAS 06 paper).

Since then, I am leading a research group devoted to multi-agent systems simulation of economic and social phenomena.

I am currently leading 4 research projects :

1. Multi-agent modeling of innovation diffusion (Funded by France Telecom R&D), PhD of Samuel Thiriot), 2005-2008

2. Multi-agent simulation of the French Labor Market (Funded by Region Ile-de-France), PhD of Zach Lewkovicz, 2006-2009

3. Mult-agent modelling of opinion dynamics (Funded by the French Ministery of Research), PhD of Thomas Béline, 2006-2009

4. Building an architecture for large-scale multi-agent simulations (Funded by the Government of Mauritius), PhD of Daniel Domingue, 2007-2010

To know more, have a look at my Publications page

(http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/~kant/Publis.html).

I am a candidate for the ESSA Management Comittee, so I could partcipate

to strenghten the social simulation in Europe. In particular, I would

like to work on international links between ESSA and other associations

(in America, Asia, Africa,...). I am also very interested in

methodological and epistemological aspects of social simulations, and

its link with applications.