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Dr. Sarne David
Office: Building 216
Personal home page
Office Hours: Thursday 15:00-16:00
Telephone: (+972 3) 531 8052
Email: sarned @ cs.biu.ac.il
Personal web page: www.cs.biu.ac.il/~sarned
Mailing address: Department of Computer Science
Bar Ilan University,
Ramat Gan, 52900, Israel

Research Interests:

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Intelligent Interfaces for Human-Computer Interaction, Large Scale Simulation Systems, Mechanism Design and Ecommerce

Research Description: My research interests are mostly in AI: Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Intelligent Interfaces for Human-Computer Interaction, Large Scale Simulation Systems, Mechanism Design and Ecommerce

Graduate Students:

Present Past

Itai Nachum
Eli Rata
Andrey Stolyarenko

Selected Publications:

 
Journal Papers
  1. · Efrat Manisterski, David Sarne, Sarit Kraus: Enhancing Cooperative Search with Concurrent Interactions, JAIR (to appear) 
  2. Abraham Grosfeld-Nir, David Sarne, Israel Spiegler, Modeling the Search for the Least Costly Opportunity, EJOR (to appear)
  3. David Sarne, Sarit Kraus: Managing Parallel Inquiries in Agents’ Two-Sided Search, AIJ (to appear)
 
Conference Papers
  1. · Michal Chalamish, David Sarne, Sarit Kraus: Programming Agents as a Means of Capturing Self-Strategy. AAMAS 2008 (to appear)
  2. Philip Hendrix, David Sarne: The Effect of Mediated Partnerships in Two-Sided Search. CIA-07, pp. 224-240
  3. David Sarne, Barbara Grosz: Sharing Experiences to Learn User Characteristics in Dynamic Environments with Sparse Data. AAMAS 2007, pp. 202-209
  4. David Sarne, Sarit Kraus, Takayuki Ito: Scaling-Up Shopbots - a Dynamic Allocation-Based Approach. AAMAS 2007, pp. 338-345
  5. David Sarne, Teijo Arponen: Sequential Decision Making in Parallel Two-Sided Economic Search. AAMAS 2007, pp. 438-445
  6. David Sarne, Barbara Grosz: Estimating Information Value in Collaborative Multi-Agent Planning Systems. AAMAS 2007, pp. 227-234
  7. Efrat Manisterski, David Sarne, Sarit Kraus: Enhancing MAS Cooperative Search Through Coalition Partitioning. IJCAI 2007, pp. 1415-1421
  8. Raz Lin, Daphna Dor-Shifer, Saar Rosenberg, Sarit Kraus and David Sarne: Towards the Fourth Generation of Cellular Networks: Improving Performance Using Distributed Negotiation. MSWiM 2006, pp. 347-356.  
  9. Efrat Manisterski, David Sarne, Sarit Kraus: Integrating parallel interactions into cooperative search. AAMAS 2006, pp. 257-264.
  10. Raz Lin, Daphna Dor-Shifer, Sarit Kraus, David Sarne: Local Negotiation in Cellular Networks: From Theory to Practice. IAAI 2006  
  11. David Sarne and Sarit Kraus: Cooperative Exploration in the Electronic Marketplace. AAAI-05, pp. 158-163
  12. David Sarne and Sarit Kraus: Solving the Auction-Based Task Allocation Problem in an Open Environment. AAAI-05, pp. 164-169
  13. David Sarne and Sarit Kraus: Time-Variant Distributed Agent Matching Applications. In Proceedings of AAMAS-04, pp. 168-175, 2004
  14. David Sarne and Sarit Kraus: Agents Strategies for the Dual Parallel Search in Partnership Formation Applications. In P. Faratin and J. A. Rodriguez-Aguilar, editors, Selected and revised papers from the 6th AAMAS Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC-04), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3435, pp. 158-172 Springer, 2004
  15. David Sarne, Meirav Hadad, Sarit Kraus: Auction Equilibrium Strategies for Task Allocation in Uncertain Environments. In CIA-04, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3191, pp. 271-285 Springer 2004
  16. David Sarne, Sarit Kraus: Agent's Multiple Inquiries for Enhancing the Partnership Formation Process. In CIA-04, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3191, pp. 286-302 Springer 2004
  17. David Sarne, Sarit Kraus: The Search for Coalition Formation in Costly Environments. In CIA-03, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2782, pp. 117-136 Springer 2003
Conference Posters and Position Papers
  1. · Ece Kamar, Barbara Grosz, David Sarne: Modeling User Perception of Interaction Opportunities in Collaborative Human-Computer Settings, AAAI 2007, pp. 1872-1873 
  2. Michal Chalamish, David Sarne, Sarit Kraus: Mass Programmed Agents for Simulating Human Strategies in Large Scale Systems. AAMAS 2007, pp. 909-911
  3. David Sarne and Barbara Grosz: Timing Interruptions for Better Human-Computer Coordinated Planning , 2006 AAAI Spring Symposium on Distributed Plan and Schedule Management, pp. 161-162
  4. David Sarne and Sarit Kraus: Buyer's Coalition for Optimal Search.  AAMAS-05, pp. 1225-1226
  5. David Sarne, Meirav Hadad, Sarit Kraus: Equilibrium Strategies for Task Allocation in Dynamic Multi-Agent Systems. In Proceedings of ECAI-04,pp. 1083-1084, 2004