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David Sarne
User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
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The Search for Coalition Formation in Costly Environments
We study the dynamics of forming coalitions of self-interested autonomous buyer agents, for the purpose of obtaining a volume discount. In our model, agents, representing coalitions of various sizes, may choos...
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Agent’s Multiple Inquiries for Enhancing the Partnership Formation Process
The concept of sequential two-sided search is widely used in partnerships formation applications in various domains. However, when considering the implementation of the method in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), one...
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Auction Equilibrium Strategies for Task Allocation in Uncertain Environments
In this paper we address a model of self interested information agents competing to perform tasks. The agents are situated in an uncertain environment while different tasks dynamically arrive from a central ma...
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Agents’ Strategies for the Dual Parallel Search in Partnership Formation Applications
In many two-sided search applications, autonomous agents can enjoy the advantage of parallel search, powered by their ability to handle an enormous amount of information, in a short time, and the capability to...
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The Effect of Mediated Partnerships in Two-Sided Economic Search
In this paper we investigate the effect of mediated partnerships over agents’ equilibrium strategies in two-sided economic search. A mediated partnership is formed when an agent acts as a mediator, establishing a...
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Multi-goal economic search using dynamic search structures
This paper investigates cooperative search strategies for agents engaged in costly search in a complex environment. Searching cooperatively, several search goals can be satisfied within a single search effort....
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Determining the value of information for collaborative multi-agent planning
This paper addresses the problem of computing the value of information in settings in which the people using an autonomous-agent system have access to information not directly available to the system itself. T...
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Problem restructuring for better decision making in recurring decision situations
This paper proposes the use of restructuring information about choices to improve the performance of computer agents on recurring sequentially dependent decisions. The intended situations of use for the restru...
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Two-sided search with experts
In this paper we study distributed agent matching in environments characterized by uncertain signals, costly exploration, and the presence of an information broker. Each agent receives information about the po...
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Efficiency and fairness in team search with self-interested agents
We consider team-work settings where individual agents incur costs on behalf of the team. In such settings it is frequently the custom to reimburse agents for the costs they incur (at least in part) in order t...
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Agent development as a strategy shaper
This paper studies to what extent agent development changes one’s own strategy. While this question has many general implications it is of special interest to the study of peer designed agents (PDAs), which ar...
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Negotiation in exploration-based environment
When two parties need to split some reward between them, negotiation theory can predict what offers the parties will make and how the reward will be split. When a single party needs to evaluate several alterna...
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Enhancing comparison shop** agents through ordering and gradual information disclosure
The plethora of comparison shop** agents (CSAs) in today’s markets enables buyers to query more than a single CSA when shop**, thus expanding the list of sellers whose prices they obtain. This potentially ...
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Selective opportunity disclosure at the service of strategic information platforms
This paper studies the strategic behavior of platforms that provide agents easier access to the type of opportunities in which they are interested (e.g., eCommerce platforms, used cars bulletins and dating web...
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Summarizing agent strategies
Intelligent agents and AI-based systems are becoming increasingly prevalent. They support people in different ways, such as providing users with advice, working with them to achieve goals or acting on users’ b...
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Obtaining costly unverifiable valuations from a single agent
A principal needs to elicit the true value of an object she owns from an agent who has a unique ability to compute this information. The principal cannot verify the correctness of the information, so she must ...
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Information Design in Affiliate Marketing
The recent massive proliferation of affiliate marketing suggests a new e-commerce paradigm which involves sellers, affiliates and the platforms that connect them. In particular, the fact that prospective buyer...
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Explainability in Mechanism Design: Recent Advances and the Road Ahead
Designing and implementing explainable systems is seen as the next step towards increasing user trust in, acceptance of and reliance on Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. While explaining choices made by bl...
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The Positive Effect of User Faults over Agent Perception in Collaborative Settings and Its Use in Agent Design
This paper studies the effect of user’s own task-related faults over her satisfaction with a fault-prone agent in a human-agent collaborative setting. Through a series of extensive experiments we find that use...
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Open AccessContest partitioning in binary contests
In this work we explore the opportunities presented by partitioning contestants in contest into disjoint groups, each competing in an independent contest, with its own prize. This, as opposed to most literatur...
