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Prof. Kaminka Gal
Office: Building 202 room 205

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Office Hours: Monday 10:30-12:30 Building 216 room 102
Telephone: (+ 972 3) 531 7607
Email: galk @ cs.biu.ac.il
Personal web page: www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/
Mailing address: Department of Computer Science
Bar Ilan University,
Ramat Gan, 52900, Israel

Research Description: Please visit http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/

Selected Publications:

  1. In: Gleizes, Marie Pierre , Kaminka, Gal, Nowé, Ann , Ossowski, Sascha , Tuyls, Karl , Verbeeck, Katja . (eds.) EUMAS 2005: Proceedings of the Third European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems, Brussels, Belgium, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie Van Belie Voor Wetenschappen En Kunsten, 2005. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/aaahtmlfiles/indexpeopefiles/fmembers.html.

  2. Rosenfeld, Avi, Kaminka, Gal, Kraus, Sarit. "A Study of Marginal Performance Properties in Robotic Groups" (ed.) Proceedings of the AAMAS 2004 Workshop On Coalitions And Teams, 2004. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/Publications/.

  3. Kalech, Meir, Kaminka, Gal. "Diagnosing a Team of Agents: Scaling-Up" (ed.) International Workshop On Model-Based Diagnosis (DX 2004), 2004. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/Publications/.

  4. Kaminka, Gal, Elmaliach, Yehuda. "Towards Single-Operator Control of Tightly-Coordinated Robot Teams" (ed.) Proceedings of the AAMAS 2004 Workshop On Coalitions And Teams, 2004. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  5. Gutnik, Gery, Kaminka, Gal. "A Scalable Petri-Net Representation of Interaction Protocols For Overhearing" (ed.) Proceedings of the AAMAS 2004 Workshop On Agent Communications (AC 2004), 2004. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  6. Horman, Yoav, Kaminka, Gal. "Improving Sequence Recognition For Learning the Behavior of Agents" (ed.) Proceedings of the AAMAS 2004 Workshop On Learning And Evolution in Agent-Based Systems, 2004. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/Publications/.

  7. Shechory, Onn, Kaminka, Gal, Shoham, Eran. "Multi-Agent Coalition Re-Formation And League Ranking" (ed.) Proceedings of the AAMAS 2004 Workshop On Coalitions And Teams, 2004. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/Publications/.

  8. Rosenfeld, Avi, Kaminka, Gal, Kraus, Sarit. "Adaptive Robot Coordination " (ed.) Proc. of ECAI, 2004. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  9. Gutnik, Gery, Kaminka, Gal. "Towards a Formal Approach To Overhearing: Algorithms For Conversation Identification" (ed.) Proceedings of the Joint Conference On Autonomous Agents And Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-2004), 2004. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  10. Kaminka, Gal, Avrahami, Dorit. "Symbolic Behavior Recognition" (ed.) Proceedings of the AAMAS 2004 Workshop On Modeling Other Agents from Observations (MOO 2004), 2004. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/Publications/.

  11. Kaminka, Gal. "Towards a Comprehensive Framework For Teamwork in Behavior-Based Robots" (ed.) Proceedings of the Eighth Conference On Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-8), 2004.

  12. Kaminka, Gal. "Multi-Agent Systems" (ed.) Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, Berkshire Publishing, 2004.

  13. Rosenfeld, Avi, Kaminka, Gal, Kraus, Sarit. "Adaptive Robot Coordination Using Interference Metrics" (ed.) Proceedings of the AAMAS 2004 Workshop On Learning And Evolution in Agent-Based Systems, 2004. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/Publications/.

  14. Kaminka, G. "Performance Competitions as Research Infrastructure: Large-Scale Comparative Studies of Multi-Agent Teams" Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2003. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  15. Kaminka, Gal. "An Overview of RoboCup 2002 Fukuoka/Busan" AI Magazine, vol. 24, 2003, p. 21-40. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  16. In: Kaminka, Gal, Lima, Pedro, Rojas, Raul. (eds.) RoboCup-2002: Robot Soccer World-Cup VI , Springer, 2003. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  17. Kaminka, Gal. "MONAD: A Flexible Architecture For Multi-Agent Control" (ed.) Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference On Autonomous Agents And Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-2003), p. 449-456., 2003. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  18. Kaminka, Gal. "Infrastructure For Tracking Users in Open Collaborative Applications: A Preliminary Report" (ed.) Proceedings of the Workshop On User And Group Models For Web-Based Adaptive Collaborative Environments, 2003. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  19. Kaminka, Gal. "Towards Social Diagnosis in Teams of Behavior-Based Agents" (ed.) Proceedings of the International Joint Conference On Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2003), 2003. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  20. Kaminka, G.; Pynadath, D.V. and Tambe, M. "Monitoring Teams by Overhearing: A Multi-Agent Plan-Recognition Approach" J. Artificial Intelligence Research, vol. 17, 2002, p. 83-135.

  21. Kaminka, G.; Veloso, M.; Schaffer, S.; Sollitto, C.; Adobbati, R.; Marshal, A.; Scholer, A. and Tejada, S. "Gamebots: A Flexible Multi-Agent Research Test-Bed for Teams" Communications of the ACM, 2002. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  22. Kaminka, Gal. "An Empricial Study of Coaching" (ed.) Proceedings of Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS-02), 2002. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  23. Browning, B.; Kaminka, G. and Veloso, M. "Principled Monitoring of Distributed Agents for Detection of Coordination Failures" (ed.) Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, 2002.

  24. Kaminka, Gal. "Towards Robust Teams With Many Agents" (ed.) Proceedings of the 1st Joint Conference On Autonomous Agents And Multi-Agent Systems, 2002. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  25. Kaminka, G. "Experiences Acquired in the Design of Robocup Teams" Journal of Autonomous Agent Systems, vol. 4, 2001.

  26. Kaminka, Gal. "Automatically Improving Team Cooperation By Applying Coordination Models" (ed.) Proceedings of the Fall Symposium On Intention Recognition For Collaborative Tasks, 2001. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  27. Kaminka, Gal. "Gamebots: A 3D Virtual World Test-Bed For Multi-Agent Research" (ed.) Proceedings of the Second International Workshop On Infrastructure For Agents, MAS, And Scalable MAS, 2001. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  28. Kaminka, Gal. "Monitoring Deployed Agent Teams" (ed.) Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference On Autonomous Agents (Agents-2001), ACM Press, 2001. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  29. Kaminka, G. "Robust Agent Teams Via Socially-Attentive Monitoring" Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, vol. 12, 2000, p. 105-147.

  30. Kaminka, Gal. "A Fly On the Wall: Monitoring Agent Organizations By Eavesdropping" (ed.) Agent Oriented Information Systems (AOIS), 2000. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  31. Kaminka, Gal. "A Preliminary Short Report On the RoboCup-98 Adaptive Teamwork Evaluation" (ed.) RoboCup-99: Robot Soccer World Cup III, Springer, 2000. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  32. Kaminka, Gal. "Adaptive Agent Integration Architectures For Heterogeneous Team Members" (ed.) International Conference On Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS-2000), IEEE Press, 2000. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  33. Kaminka, G. "Building Agent Teams Using an Explicit Teamwork Model and Learning" Artificial Intelligence, vol. 111, 1999, p. 215-239.

  34. Kaminka, Gal. "Using an Explicit Teamwork Model And Learning in RoboCup: An Extended Abstract" (ed.) RoboCup'98: Robot Soccer World Cup II, p. 237-245., Springer, 1999. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  35. Kaminka, Gal. "On Being a Teammate: Experiences Acquired in the Design of RoboCup Teams" (ed.) Proceedings of the Third International Conference On Autonomous Agents (Agents-99), ACM Press, 1999. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  36. Kaminka, Gal. "I'm OK, You're OK, We're OK: Experiments in Distributed And Centralized Socially Attentive Monitoring" (ed.) Proceedings of the Third International Conference On Autonomous Agents (Agents-99), ACM Press, 1999. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  37. Tambe, M.; Kaminka, G.; Marsella, C.; Muslea, I. and Raines, T. "Two Fielded Teams and Two Experts: A Robocup Challenge Response from the Trenches" (ed.) Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, p. 276-281., 1999.

  38. Kaminka, Gal. "ISIS: An Explicit Model of Teamwork At RobotCup-97" AI Magazine, vol. 19, 1998, p. 56-56. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  39. Kaminka, Gal. "The Role of Agent-Modeling in Agent Robustness" (ed.) AI Meets the Real-World: Lessons Learned (AIMTRW-98), 1998. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  40. Kaminka, Gal. "What's Wrong With Us? Improving Robustness Through Social Diagnosis" (ed.) Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference On Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98), AI Press, 1998. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  41. Kaminka, Gal. "ISIS: Using an Explicit Model of Teamwork in RoboCup'97" (ed.) RoboCup'97: Proceedings of the First Robot World Cup Competition And Conferences, Springer, 1998. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  42. Kaminka, Gal. "Social Comparison For Failure Detection And Recovery" (ed.) Intelligent Agents IV: Agents, Theories, Architectures And Languages (ATAL), Springer, 1998. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.

  43. Kaminka, G. "YODA:the Young Observant Discovery Agent" AI Magazine, 1997.

  44. Kaminka, Gal. "Real World Robot Navigation Using Fuzzy Reaction And Deliberation" (ed.) International Conference On Fuzzy Logic And Applications (Fuzzy-97)., 1997. Available: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/.