Research Assistantship in formal understanding of creativity, Barcelona, Spain

The Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC) in Barcelona offers a 2-year position to work as a research assistant on COINVENT, a high-profile international research project funded under the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme.

The COINVENT project, led by Dr. Marco Schorlemmer and Prof. Enric Plaza, aims at advancing in the formal understanding of creativity by developing a computationally feasible, cognitively-inspired formal model of concept invention, drawing from interdisciplinary research results from cognitive science, artificial intelligence, formal methods and computational creativity, and validating it for mathematical reasoning and melodic harmonisation.

Closing date for application: 31st March 2014. For more information, see http://www.iiia.csic.es/coinvent/node/5 or contact Dr. Marco Schorlemmerat marco at iiia.csic.es.