Natalie Fridman Home Page

 

 

I'm a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science department at Bar- Ilan University, Israel.
My advisor is: Dr. Gal A. Kaminka. I am a member of the MAVERICK lab.

Research Interests:

  • In my reserch I focus on simulating and modeling crowd behavior using social comparison theory.


    • Academic History:

    1. M.Sc. in Computer Science, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
    2. B.Sc. in Computer Science, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.


    Publications:

      2009:

    1. Natalie Fridman and Gal A. Kaminka. Comparing Human and Synthetic Group Behaviors: A Model Based on Social Psychology. In International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM-09), 2009.
      2. (pdf)

    2. Natalie Fridman, Gal A. Kaminka and Meytal Traub. First Steps Towards a Social Comparison Model of Crowds. In International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM-09), 2009. (pdf)


      3. 2007:

    3. Natalie Fridman. Modeling Crowd Behavior Based on Social Comparison Theory. Master's Thesis, Bar Ilan Univerity, 2007.


    4. Natalie Fridman and Gal A. Kaminka. Towards a Cognitive Model of Crowd Behavior Based on Social Comparison Theory. In In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), 2007.
      5. (pdf)

    5. Gal A. Kaminka and Natalie Fridman. Social Comparison in Crowds: A Short Report. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-07), 2007. (pdf)


      6. 2006:

    6. Natalie Fridman and Gal A. Kaminka. Modeling Crowd Behavior Based on Social Comparison Theory: Extended Abstract. In El Yacoubi, S., B. Chopard, and S. Bandini, editors, ACRI 2006, {LNCS}, pp. 694–698, Springer-Verlag, 2006. (pdf)


    7. Gal A. Kaminka and Natalie Fridman. A Cognitive Model of Crowd Behavior Based on Social Comparison Theory. In Proceedings of the AAAI-2006 workshop on cognitive modeling, 2006. (pdf)


    Crowd Links

      Experimental Data on Crowd Behaviors


    Contact Information:

    Department of Computer Science
    Bar-Ilan University
    52900 Ramat-Gan, Israel

    Cell Phone: (972) 052-3922610
    Email: fridman@cs.biu.ac.il




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    Last modified: 18/03/2007