To promote the acceptance of robots in society, it is crucial to design systems exhibiting
adaptive behavior. This is particularly needed in various social domains (eg, cultural …

One of today's most significant societal challenges is building AI systems whose behaviour,
or the behaviour it enables within communities of interacting agents (human and artificial) …

Abstract Theory of Mind is a concept from developmental psychology which elucidates how
humans mentalise. More specifically, it describes how humans ascribe mental attitudes to …

In order to enhance collaboration between humans and artificially intelligent agents, it is
crucial to equip the computational agents with capabilities commonly used by humans. One …

Empowering artificially intelligent agents with capabilities that humans use regularly is
crucial to enable effective human-agent collaboration. One of these crucial capabilities is the …

(English) The topic of this thesis is the engineering of values for autonomous agents. This is
realised through the formulation, design and implementation of new functionalities for …

One of the possible ways to embed values into autonomous agents is through reasoning
over the norms that govern the MAS where agents are situated. Unfortunately, most previous …

The ability to infer other agents' mental states (intentions, beliefs, emotions, etc.) is
indispensable for engaging in advanced forms of collaboration. However, this so-called …