9th Bar-Ilan Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence

Conference Program

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List of Accepted Papers

Ben Sandbank, Shimon Edelman and Eytan Ruppin. From ConText to Grammar: a step towards practical probabilistic context free grammar inference

Rachel Ben-Eliyahu-Zohary, Ran Giladi, Philip Hendrix and Stuart M. Shieber. Clustering Ad-Hoc Networks: Experiments in Local Search

Idan Szpektor and Ido Dagan. Learning Canonical Forms of Entailment Rules

Roi Reichart and Ari Rappoport. An Ensemble Method for Selection of High Quality Parses

Roi Reichart and Ari Rappoport. Self-Training for Enhancement and Domain Adaptation of
Statistical Parsers Trained on Small Datasets

Noam Hazon, Paul E. Dunne, Sarit Kraus and Michael Wooldridge. How to Rig an Election

Ariel Procaccia, Aviv Zohar, Yoni Peleg and Jeffrey Rosenschein. Learning Voting Trees

Ariel Felner and Nir Ofek. Combining Perimeter Search and Pattern Database Abstractions

Ron Katz and Sarit Kraus. Gender-Sensitive Automated Negotiators

Uzi Zahavi and Ariel Felner. Inconsistent Heuristics

Orna Peleg, Zohar Eviatar, Larry Manevitz and Hananel Hazan. Differences and Interactions between Cerebral Hemispheres When Processing Ambiguous Homographs

Judit Bar-Ilan, Kevin Keenoy, Mark Levene and Eti Yaari. Ranking Preferences of Search Results – A User Study

Michael Katz and Carmel Domshlak. Structural Patterns of Tractable Sequentially-Optimal Planning

Yoram Bachrach and Jeffrey Rosenschein. Computing the Banzhaf Power Index in Network Flow Games

Ido Levy and Claudia Goldman. Distributed On-line Learning Cooperative Multi-Agent System

Saib Mansour, Khalil Sima'an and Yoad Winter. Smoothing a Lexicon-based POS Tagger for Arabic and Hebrew

Roy Bar-Haim, Ido Dagan, Iddo Greental and Eyal Shnarch. Semantic Inference at the Lexical-Syntactic Level

Carmel Domshlak and Vitaly Mirkis. Cost-Sharing Approximations for h^{+}

Roie Zivan, Moshe Zazone and Amnon Meisels. Min-Domain retroactive ordering for Asynchronous Backtracking

Guy Shani. A Stereotypes-Based Hybrid Recommender System for Media Items

Maxim Binshtok, Ronen Brafman, Solomon Eyal Shimony, Ajay Mani and Craig Boutilier. Computing Optimal Subsets

Shlomo Berkovsky, Ariel I. Gorfinkel, Tsvi Kuflik and Larry M. Manevitz. Case-Based to Content-Based User Model Mediation and its Effectiveness

Aviv Zohar, Hagay Levin and Michael Schapira. Incentive-Compatible Distributed Routing

Yael Netzer, Meni Adler, David Gabay and Michael Elhadad. Can You Tag the Modal? You Should

Edith Elkind, Leslie Ann Goldberg, Paul Goldberg and Michael Wooldridge. Computational Complexity of Weighted Threshold Games

Dragan Bosnacki, Edith Elkind, blaise genest and Doron Peled. On Commutativity Based Edge Lean Search

Joshua Waxman. Transliteration Bitext Corpus Generation and Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using Minimum Edit Distance and Character Cluster Equivalence Classes

Roy Fox and Moshe Tennenholtz. A Reinforcement Learning Algorithm with Polynomial Interaction Complexity for Only-Costly-Observable MDPs

Dana Dannells and Louise Deleger. Multilingual generation of medical information

Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport and Moshe Koppel. Fully Unsupervised Discovery of Concept-Specific Relationships by Web Mining

Avi Rosenfeld, Sarit Kraus and Charlie Ortiz. Quantifying the Expected Utility of Information in Multi-Agent Scheduling Tasks

Avi Rosenfeld, Claudia Goldman, Sarit Kraus and Gal Kaminka. An Agent Architecture for Hybrid P2P Free-Text Search

Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad. Toward Better Understanding of Hebrew NP Chunks

Reut Tsarfaty and Khalil Sima'an. Dimensions of Parameterization for Modern Hebrew Statistical Parsing

Larry Manevitz and Hananel Hazan. History-Dependent Neurons and Identification of Temporal Sequences

Meir Kalech, Gal Kaminka and Michael Lindner. Matrix-Based Representation for Coordination Fault Detection: A Formal Approach

Yan Virin, Guy Shani and Eyal Shimony. Scaling Up: Solving POMDPs through Value Based Clustering

Michal Penn, Maria Polukarov and Moshe Tennenholtz. Congestion Games with Load-Dependent Failures: Identical Resources

Alon Altman, Avivit Bercovici-Boden and Moshe Tennenholtz. Learning in one-shot strategic form games

Yehuda Elmaliah, Noa Agmon and Gal Kaminka. Multi-Robot Area Patrol under Frequency Constraints

Alon Lavie and Shuly Wintner. Rapid Prototyping of a Transfer-based Hebrew-to-English Machine Translation System

Dorit Avrahami-Zilberbrand and Gal Kaminka. Incorporating Observer Biases in Keyhole Plan Recognition (Efficiently!)

Natalie Fridman and Gal Kaminka. Towards a Cognitive Model of Crowd Behavior Based on Social Comparison Theory

Ami Berler and Solomon Eyal Shimony. Mapping AWOL Using a Concrete Domain (Extended Abstract)

Ido Dagan, Alfio Gliozzo, Oren Glickman, Carlo Strapparava and efrat marmorshtein. DirectWord Sense Matching for Lexical Substitution

Alex Rogers, Esther David, Terry Payne and Nicholas R. Jennings. An Advanced Bidding Agent for Advertisement Selection on Public Displays

Gal Kaminka, Ari Yakir, Dan Erusalimchik and Nirom Cohen-Nov. Towards Collaborative Task and Team Maintenance

Hannaneh Hajishirzi and Eyal Amir. Stochastic Filtering in a Probabilistic Action Model

Dmitry Davidov, Moshe Koppel and Ari Rappoport. Fully Unsupervised Discovery of Concept-Specific Relationships by Web Mining

Ariel Felner, Roni Stern and Kenny Daniel. Efficient Pursuit and Evasion with a Team of Agents in General Graphs

Nirom Cohen-Nov Slapak and Gal Kaminka. Computational Load and Performance in Integrated Multi-Agent Intention

Eliyahu Osherovich, Vladimir Yanovski, Israel Wagner and Freddy Bruckstein. Robust and Efficient Covering of Unknown Continuous Domains with Simple, Ant-Like A(ge)nts

Eli Kolberg, Yoram Reich and Ilya Levin. Design Methodology for Mobile Robots