The IIIA (Spanish: Instituto de Investigación en Inteligencia Artificial; Catalan: Institut d'Investigació en Intel.ligència Artificial) is a research centre founded in 1985, belonging to the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC). Its mission is to carry out very high quality research in Artificial Intelligence keeping a good balance between basic research and applications, and paying particular attention to training PhD students and to technology transfer.
The IIIA has three main research lines: Logic, reasoning and search; Case-based reasoning & learning; and Intelligent agents and multiagent systems.