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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Program

All sessions take place in Building 6, Lecture halls: Te'ena and Zait

9:00-9:30 Reception and Coffee

Parallel Session 1A, Chair: Esther David
9:30 - 9:50 Manipulation with Randomized Tie-Breaking under Maximin
Michael Zuckerman and Jeffrey S. Rosenschein, Hebrew University
9:50- 10:10
When you say (DCOP) privacy, what do you mean?
Categorization of DCOP Privacy and Insights on Internal Constraint Privacy
Tal Grinshpoun, Sami Shamoon College
10:10-10:30 Topological Choices, Sliding Thresholds, and STDP Learning Variants
Hananel Hazan and Larry M. Manevitz, University of Haifa
10:30-10:50
Using Classical Planners to Solve Conformant Probabilistic Planning Problems
Ran Taig and Ronen I. Brafman, Ben Gurion University

Parallel Session 1B, Chair: Michal Chalamish
9:30 -9:50 Detecting and Avoiding Local Pathologies in Two-player Games Trees
Brandon Wilson, Inon Zuckerman, Austin Parker and Dana Nau, University of Maryland
9:50- 10:10 MCTS Based on Simple Regret
David Tolpin and Solomon Eyal Shimony, Ben Gurion University
10:10-10:30 Conflict-Based Search for Optimal Multi-Agent Path Finding
Guni Sharon, Roni Stern, Ariel Felner and Nathan Sturtevant, Ben Gurion University and University Of Denver
10:30-10:50
Position paper: Dijkstra's Algorithm vs. Uniform Cost Search or A Case Against Dijkstra's Algorithm
Ariel Felner, Ben Gurion University

10:50–11:10 Coffee Break

11:10-12:00 Invited Talk, Chair: Uri J. Schild
Optimal tradeoff between information and reward in sensing-acting learning
Naftali Tishby, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Parallel Session 2A, Chair: Claudia V. Goldman
12:00- 12:20 Strategic Advice Provision in Repeated Human-Agent Interactions
Amos Azaria, Zinovi Rabinovich, Sarit Kraus, Claudia V. Goldman and
Ya'akov Gal, Bar Ilan University and Ben Gurion University
12:20-12:40 A Cultural Sensitive Agent for Human-Computer Negotiation
Galit Haim, Ya'akov Gal, Sarit Kraus and Michele J. Gelfand, Bar-Ilan University,
Ben Gurion University and Maryland University

Parallel Session 2B, Chair: Meir Kalech
12:00- 12:20 Fast Frontier Detection for Robot Exploration
Matan Keidar and Gal Kaminka, Bar-Ilan University
12:20-12:40 Exploring the Duality in Conflict-Directed Model-Based Diagnosis
Roni Stern, Meir Kalech, Alexander Feldman and Gregory Provan, Ben Gurion University

12:40-1:40 Lunch Break

1:40-2:30 Invited Talk, Chair: Jeff Rosenschein
Principles of Reasoning with Graphical Models
Rina Dechter, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine

2:30-3:20 Invited Talk, Chair: Sarit Kraus
Self-aware software - a practical view
Onn Shehory, IBM Haifa Labs

3:20–3:40 Coffee Break

Parallel Session 3A, Chair: Roie Zivan
3:40-4:00 Disambiguation during silent reading
Zohar Eviatar, Hananel Hazan, Larry Manevitz, Orna Peleg and Rom Timor, University of Haifa
4:00-4:20 Max/Min-sum Distributed Constraint Optimization through Value Propagation on an Alternating DAG
Roie Zivan and Hilla Peled, Ben Gurion University
4:20-4:40 The Choice of Taxing or Subsidizing Expert's Services for Uncertainty Elimination within Auctions
Shani Alkoby, David Sarne and Esther David, Bar Ilan University and Ashkelon College

Parallel Session 3B, Chair: Kobi Gal
3:40-4:00 Optimal Search with Inadmissible Heuristics
Erez Karpas and Carmel Domshlak, Technion
4:00-4:20 A Decision Support System for Trial Lawyers
Michal Chalamish, Eran Galili and Uri Schild, Bar-Ilan University and Ashkelon Academic College
4:20-4:40 Agent-human Coordination with Communication Costs under Uncertainty
Asaf Frieder, Raz Lin and Sarit Kraus, Bar Ilan University