Research Publications

Colored Trails: Related Publications

Papers are presented in ascending alphabetical order by author. When citing Colored Trails, please use the following bibtex information for Gal et al. 2010.

Journal Publications

  1. Ya'akov Gal, Barbara Grosz, Sarit Kraus, Avi Pfeffer and Stuart Shieber. Agent Decision-Making in Open Mixed Networks, Artificial Intelligence, 2010 [DOI] [pdf]
  2. Ya'akov Gal, Sarit Kraus, Michele Gelfand, Hilal Khashan, Elizabeth Salmon. Negotiating with People across Cultures using an Adaptive Agent. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, volume 3, issue 1, October 2011  [pdf].
  3. Arlette van Wissen, Ya'akov Gal, Bart Kamphorst, Virginia Dignum. Human-Agent Teamwork in Dynamic Environments. Computers in Human Behavior, volume 28, issue 1, 2012, pp. 23-33 [pdf].

Conference Publications

  1. Galit Haim, Ya'akov Gal, Sarit Kraus and Michele J. Gelfand. A Cultural Sensitive Agent for Human-Computer Negotiation. Tenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Valencia Spain, June 2012. [pdf].
  2. Steven de Jong, Daniel Hennes, Ya'akov Gal, Karl Tuyls. Meta-Strategies in the Colored Trails Game.Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Taipei, Taiwan, May 2011.
  3. Noam Peled, Ya'akov Gal, Sarit Kraus. A Study of Computational and Human Strategies in Revelation Games. Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Taipei, Taiwan, May 2011.
  4. Galit Haim, Ya'akov Gal, Sarit Kraus and Yael Blumberg, Learning Human Negotiation Behavior Across Cultures. In HuCom10 - Second International Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational Models in Negotiation.
  5. Ece Kamar, Ya'akov Gal and Barbara Grosz. Modeling User Perception of Interaction Opportunities for Effective Teamwork. Symposium on Social Intelligence and Networking.  IEEE Conference on Social Computing. August 2009, Vancouver, British Columbia.
  6. Dimitrios Antos and Avi Pfeffer. Using Reasoning Patterns to Help Humans Solve Complex Games. In International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 2009.
  7. Ece Kamar, Ya'akov Gal and Barbara Grosz. Incorporating Helpful Behavior into Collaborative Planning.Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Budapest, Hungary, May 2009.
  8. Arlette van Wissen, Jurriaan van Diggelen and Virginia Dignum. The Effects of Cooperative Agent Behavior on Human Cooperativeness. AAMAS Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Multiagent Systems (MIMS), May 2009. (Extended abstract published in proceedings of AAMAS '09.)
  9. Ya'akov Gal, Sohan D'souza, Philippe Pasquier, Iyad Rahwan and Sherief Abdallah. The Effects of Goal Revelation on Computer-Mediated Negotiation. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), 2009.
  10. Sevan G. Ficici and Avi Pfeffer.  Modeling how Humans Reason about Others with Partial Information. Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2008.
  11. Sevan G. Ficici and Avi Pfeffer. Simultaneously Modeling Humans' Preferences and their Beliefs about Others' Preferences. Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2008.
  12. Ya'akov Gal, Barbara J. Grosz, Avi Pfeffer and Stuart Shieber. The Influence of Task Contexts on the Decision-making of Humans and Computers.  Proceedings of the Sixth International Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT), Roskilde University, Denmark, August 2007
  13. Ya'akov Gal and Avi Pfeffer. Modeling Reciprocity in Human Bilateral Negotiation.National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Vancouver, British Columbia, July 2007.
  14. Ya'akov Gal and Avi Pfeffer. Predicting People's Bidding Behavior in Negotiation. Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Hakodate, Japan, May 2006.
  15. Shavit Talman, Ya'akov Gal, Meirav Hadad and Sarit Kraus. Adapting to Agents' Personalities in Negotiation. Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Utrecht, the Netherlands, July 2005.
  16. Barbara J. Grosz, Sarit Kraus, Shavit Talman, Boaz Stossel and Moti Havlin. The Influence of Social Dependencies on Decision-Making. Initial investigations with a new game. Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), New York, NY, July 2004.
  17. Francesca Marzo, Ya'akov Gal, Barbara J. Grosz and Avi Pfeffer. Social Preferences in Relational Contexts. In proceedings of IV Conference in Collective Intentionality. Siena, Italy, October 2004.
  18. Ya'akov Gal, Avi Pfeffer, Francesca Marzo and Barbara J. Grosz. Learning Social Preferences in Games. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), San Jose, California, July 2004.

Workshop Publications

  1. Ya'akov Gal, Barbara J. Grosz, Sarit Kraus, Avi Pfeffer and Stuart Shieber. Colored Trails: a Formalism for Investigating Decision-making in Strategic Environments.IJCAI Workshop on Reasoning, Representation, and Learning in Computer Games, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2005.
  2. D. Hennes, K. P. Tuyls, M. A. Neerincx, and G. W. M. Rauterberg, Micro-scale social network analysis for ultra-long space flights.The IJCAI-09 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Space.
  3. Bart Kamphorst, Arlette van Wissen, Virginia Dignum. Incorporating BDI agents into human-agent decision making research. The 10th Annual International Workshop "Engineering Societies in the Agents' World" (ESAW 2009).

Graduate Theses

  1. Ece Kamar. Reasoning Effectively Under Uncertainty for Human-Computer Teamwork. PhD thesis.
  2. Arlette van Wissen. Coalition Formation between Self-Interested Heterogeneous Actors. Masters thesis. Utrecht University, July 2009.
  3. Sohan D'souza. Empirical Studies in Computer-Mediated Interest-Based Negotiations. Masters thesis. The British University in Dubai, May 2009.
  4. Ya'akov Gal Reasoning about Rationality and Beliefs in Multi-agent Systems. PhD thesis, Harvard University, June 2006.
  5. Moty Havlin The influence of Social Dependencies in Environments with Full Visibility. Masters thesis, Bar Ilan University, March 2005.
  6. Shavit Talman Multi-personality agents in multi-agent environments. Masters thesis, Bar Ilan University, October 2004.

Undergraduate Theses

  1. Konstantin Pozin. Improving Agent Performance in an Alternating Offers Negotiation Game. Undergraduate thesis, Harvard College, April 2010.
  2. Alex Allain. The effects of Context on Decision-making in Colored Trails. Undergraduate thesis, Harvard College, April 2006.
  3. Andre Veloso Moura. Cooperative Behavior Strategies in Colored Trails Undergraduate thesis, Harvard College, April 2003.