Esther David
August 2015
Curriculum Vitae
1. Personal Details
Home Address: Binyamin 26, Ashkelon
Telephone: Home: 077- 2100704
Cellular: 052-631-4357
Marital Status: Married + 8
Date of Birth: May 1973
Electronic Address: astrdod@acad.ash-college.ac.il
H-index: 16
2. Higher Education:
A. Under graduate and Graduate Studies
PhD.-: 1998-2003:
Bar Ilan University, Computer Science.
Thesis title: Agents for Dissemination and
Market-Based Environments.
Advisor: Prof. Sarit Kraus.
Year of Approval: 2004
M.Sc.-: 1995-1998:
Bar-Ilan University, Computer Science
(with distinction).
Thesis Title: Agents for information
broadcasting.
Advisor: Prof. Sarit Kraus.
Year of Approval: 1998
B.Sc.-: 1992-1995:
Bar-Ilan University, Computer Science and
Mathematics (with honor).
Year of Approval: 1995
B. Post-Doctoral Studies
2003-2006 (three years), Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia (IAM) Group,
Electronics & Computer Science, Southampton University UK, Senior
Research Fellow under the supervision of Prof. Nick Jennings
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3. Academic Positions:
2006 -
Senior Lecturer, Computer Science Dept., Ashkelon College
2010-
External Teacher, Engineering Department, Bar-Ilan University
2006-2010
External Teacher, Department of Computer Science, Bar Ilan University
2006 - 2010
External Teacher, Department of Brain Science, Bar Ilan University
2006-2007
External Teacher, Department of Information System Engineering Dept.,
Ben Gurion University
2003 - 2006
Senior Research Fellow, Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK
4. Offices in Academic Administration
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Referee for the Division of Physics and applied Math Israel's Ministry of Science,
Technology and Space-2015
Member of the Disciplinary Offences, Ashkelon Academic College
Student Advisor for 3rd year Students
Manager of the DEGEL Project (Social Project Funded jointly with the VATAT)
5. Scholarly Positions and Activities outside the Institution
International Editorial Board
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IfCoLog Journal of Logics and their Applications-since November-2015
International Journal of Computer & Software Engineering, since December2015
Programme Committee Member
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The 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI 2016 (the
TOP conference for AI)
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Serving on the committee of the IAAI organization (the Israeli Association for
Artificial Intelligence since 2014- )
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European Conference for Artificial Intelligence 2014 (ECAI'14)
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Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS’2011)
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The 13th International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce,
Taipei,Taiwan, 2011.
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The 12th International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce,
Toronto, Canada, 2010.
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The 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence - ECAI 2010, Lisbon,
Portugal , august 2010
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The 11th International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce,
Budapest, Hungary, May 2009.
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Symposium, Israeli Association for Artificial Intelligence (IAAI2010)
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Symposium, Israeli Association for Artificial Intelligence (IAAI2008)
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Symposium, Israeli Association for Artificial Intelligence (IAAI2007)
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Cooperative information Agents (CIA 2006)
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Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS’06)
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Defence Applications of Multi-Agent Systems (DAMAS-05)
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Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS’04)
Reviewing Activities:
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International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2015)
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American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2014
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Serving a reviewer for OMEGA, International Journal of Management Science
(Elsevier).
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Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS’2014)
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Doctoral proposal of Avshalom Elmalech - Overcoming people's irrationality
using agents Advisor Prof. David Sarne, Bar-Ilan University (2012)
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Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS’2011) (7 papers)
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United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (reviewing a grant proposal)
(January 2010)
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Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (2008)
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Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07)
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Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS’06)
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Defence Applications of Multi-Agent Systems (DAMAS-05)
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International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-05)
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Trading Agent Design and Analysis workshop (TADA-05) at IJCAI 05
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ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC’04)
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Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS’04)
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ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC’03)
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International Conference on Multiagent Systems (ICMAS) 2000
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AGENTS-99
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American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 1999
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International Conference on Multiagent Systems (ICMAS) 1998
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American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 1997
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International Journal of Production Economics (IJPE).
6. Participation in Scholarly Conferences and Workshops
A. Active Participation
Refereed Conferences and Workshop Proceedings (since last promotion)
1. Rina Azoulay and Esther David, (2015) Ad Exchange: Intention Driven Auction
Mechanisms for Mediating Between Publishers and Advertisers, Proc of the 2015
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'15),
Singapore. (in press)
2. Esther David and Rina Azoulay, (2015) It Does Matter Who I sell to and Who I
Buy From: Weighted Bilateral VCG , Proc of the 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM
International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology- Int. workshop on
Knowledge Management of Web Social Media (KMWSM), Singapore. (in press)
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3. Hodaya Uzan, Esther David, Moshe Koppel, and Maayan Gefet, (2015) Automatic
Political Profiling in Heterogeneous Corpora, Proceedings of the 7th Int.
Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART-15 Lisbon, Portugal.
4. Shani Alkoby, David Sarne, and Esther David, (2014) Manipulating Information
Providers Access to Information in Auctions. 24th Int. conference on Technologies
and Applications of Artificial Intelligence ,TAAI-2014: 14-25
5. Esther David, Guy Leshem, Michal Chalamish, Alvin Chiang, and Dana Shapira:
Expert-Based Fusion Algorithm of an Ensemble of Anomaly Detection
Algorithms. 24th Int. conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial
Intelligence ,TAAI-2014, 114-123
6. Dorit Hutzler, Esther David, Mireille Avigal, Rina Azoulay, (2014) Learning
Methods for Rating the Difficulty of Reading Comprehension Questions,
Proceedings of Software Science, Technology and Engineering, SwSTE'14 Ramat
Gan, Israel , 54-62
7. Guy Leshem, Esther David, Michal Chalamish, and Dana Shapira, (2014)
Reputation Prediction of Anomaly Detection Algorithms for Reliable System,
Proceedings of Software Science, Technology and Engineering, SwSTE'14, Ramat
Gan, Israel, 19-23
8. Rina Azulay, Esther David, Dorit Hutzler, Mireille Avigal, (2014), Adaptation
Schemes for Questions Level to be Proposed by Intelligent Tutoring ystems,
Proceedings of the 6th Int. Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence,
ICAART-14 Anger, France, 245-255.
9. Esther David and Efrat Manisterski, (2013) Strategy Proof Mechanism for
Complex Task Allocations in Prior Consent for Subtasks Completion
Environment, Proc of the 2013 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'13), Atlanta, Georgia, USA 2013, 209-215.
10. Shani Alkoby, David Sarne and Esther David ,(2012) On the choice of Obtaining
and Disclosing the Common Value in Auctions, Proc of the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM
International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'12), Macau, 2012,
pp. 111-118.
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11. Esther David and Rina Azulay, (2012) No More Damaging Ads on Your Own
Webpage-Strategy Proof Mechanisms for Ad Placement, Proc of the 2012
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'12),
Macau, 2012, pp. 140-145.
12. Esther David, Efrat Manisterski, Sarit Kraus and Nicholas R. Jennings (2012)
Efficient Complex Tasks Allocation Within Agents Environment of Known
Capabilities. Proc of the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'12), Macau, 2012, pp. 299-304.
13. Shani Alkoby, David Sarne and Esther David (2012) On the Choice of Obtaining
and Disclosing the Common Value in auctions, Proc 14th Int. Workshop on AgentMediated Electronic Commerce and Trading Agent Design and Analysis (AMEC&TADA
2012), Valencia, Spain, 2012
14. Efrat Manistersky, Esther David, Sarit Kraus and Nicholas R. Jennings, (2012)
Efficient Allocation of Agent Groups for Complex Tasks in Real Cost
Environments, IEEE International Conference on Software Science, Technology &
Engineering (SWESTE2012), 2012, pp 54-62.
15. Maria Karam, Terry R. Payne and Esther David. (2007) Evaluating BluScreen:
Usability for Intelligent Pervasive Displays. The Second IEEE International
Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications (ICPCA07), 2007, 68-73
16. Alex Rogers , Esther David, Terry Payne, and Nicholas R. Jennings, (2007) An
Advanced Bidding Agent for Advertisement Selection on Public Displays,
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
(AAMAS’07), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, pp. 251-258.
17. Terry R. Payne, Esther David, Nicholas R. Jennings, and Mathias Sharifi, (2006),
Auction Mechanisms for Efficient Advertisement Selection on Public Displays
(Extended Abstract), Proceedings of Fourth European Workshop on Multi Agent
Systems, Lisbon, Portugal.
18. Terry Payne, Esther David, Nick R. Jennings, and Mathias Sharifi, M. (2006 )
Auction Mechanisms for Efficient Advertisement Selection on Public Displays,
Proceedings of European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Trento, Italy, pp. 285289 .
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19. Mathias Sharifi, Terry Payne, Esther David, (2006) Public Display Advertizing based
on Bluetooth Device Presence, Mobile Interaction with Real World (MIRW 2006),
52-59 (37 citations)
20. Efrat Manisterski, Esther David, Sarit Kraus, Nick Jennings, (2006) Forming
Efficient Agent Groups for Completing Complex Tasks , Proc. 5st Int. Conf. on
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS’06), Japan, pp. 834-841.
Refereed Conferences and Workshop Proceedings (before last promotion)
21. E. David, A. Rogers, J. Schiff, S. Kraus, and N. R. Jennings, (2005) Optimal
Design of English Auctions with Discrete Bid Levels, Proc. of 6th ACM
Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'05) Vancouver, Canada, pp. 98-107.
22. Alex Rogers, Esther David, and Nicholas R. Jennings, (2004) Selfish Sensors in
Wireless Micro-Sensor Networks, Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents
and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS’04), New-York USA.(poster)
23. Krishnen Vytelingum, Esther David and Nicholas R. Jennings. (2004) A RiskBased Bidding Strategy for Continuous Double Auctions. Proceedings of the
16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Spain, pp. 79-83.
24. Esther David, Rina Azulay-Schwartz, Sarit Kraus, (2003) Bidders` strategy for
Multi-Attribute Sequential English Auction with a Deadline. Proc. 2nd Int.
Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS’03) Melbourne,
Australia, pp 457-464.
25. Esther. David, Rina Azoulay-Schwartz and Sarit Kraus, (2003) The Design of the
Multi-Attribute English Auction with a Deadline Vs. the eBay Auction Protocol,
Proc 5th Int. Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce,
(AMEC’03),
Melbourne, Australia. (poster)
26. Esther David, Rina Azoulay-Schwartz and Sarit Kraus. (2002) Protocols and
Strategies for Automated Multi Attributes Auctions, Proc. 1st Int. Conf. on
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS’02), Bologna, Italy, pp.
77-85.
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27. Esther David and Sarit Kraus. (2000). Agents for Broadcasting Environment, in
N. Jennings and Y. Lesperance (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence,
Intelligent Agents VI, 91-105
B. Organization of Conferences or Sessions
Conference Chair
 The 18th International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce
and Trading Agents Designing and Analysis, New York, USA, 2016
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The first international workshop on Ensemble of Anomaly Detection
Algorithm, Co-located with 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference
on Intelligent Agent Technology
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The 17th International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce
and Trading Agents Designing and Analysis, Istanbul, Turkey , 2015
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The 16th International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce
and Trading Agents Designing and Analysis, Paris, France , 2014
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The 15th International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce
and Trading Agents Designing and Analysis, Saint Paul Minnesota, USA,
2013
The 14th International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce
and Trading Agents Designing and Analysis, Valencia, Spain, 2012
Symposium of the Israeli Association for Artificial Intelligence at Ashkelon
College, 2012
The 13th International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce,
Taipei, Taiwan, 2011
The 12th International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce,
Toronto, Canada, 2010.
Symposium of the Israeli Association for Artificial Intelligence at Ashkelon
College, 2010
The 11th International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce,
Budapest, Hungary, May 2009.
Symposium of the Israeli Association for Artificial Intelligence at Ashkelon
College, 2008
Symposium of the Israeli Association for Artificial Intelligence at Ashkelon
College, 2007
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Conference Program Co-Chair
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The Bar-Ilan Symposium on Artificial Intelligence 2013 (BISFAI2013)
7. Research Grants
A. Grants awarded
2015-2017
2015-2016
Information Security –Taiwan-Israel cooperation
Developing an innovative Cyber security protocol to defend
against Malicious Attacks on Physical Cyber systems, Role :PI
280,000NIS (Joint with Dr. Guy Leshem)
Degel Project "computer science without computers" by the
VATAT, 40,000 NIS
2013-2015
Israeli-Taiwanese scientific Research cooperation 2013-2015,
Role :PI 190,000NIS (Joint with Dr. Guy Leshem)
2014-2015
Degel Project "computer science without computers" by the
VATAT, 45,000 NIS
2014-2015
Research grant , 10,000NIS, from Jerusalem College of
Technology , Joint with Dr. Rina Azoulay
2013-2014
Research grant , 10,000NIS, from Jerusalem College of
Technology , Joint with Dr. Rina Azoulay
2012-2013
Research grant , 10,000NIS, from Jerusalem College of
Technology , Joint with Dr. Rina Azoulay
2011-2012
Research grant , 5,000NIS, from Jerusalem College of
Technology , Joint with Dr. Rina Azoulay
2010-2011
Research grant , 20,000NIS, from Jerusalem College of
Technology , Joint with Dr. Rina Azoulay
B. Submission of Research Proposals-Pending
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C. Submission of Research proposals- Not Funded
1. ESPRC- Joint Israel-UK Research in Cyber Security; Topic: CRS: Cyber
Resilient Systems Projet for Cyber Security; Co-Researches: Joint with
Southampton University, PI Dr. Gennaro Parlato. Co-Investigator Prof. Vladimiro
Sassone, Joint with Dr. Guy Leshem and Prof. Avi Rosenfeld, Jerusalem
Academic College of Technology, Role: Co-PI, 2014 (no score was given)
2. Research proposal to the Institute of Future Security Research, Technion,
Israel, Topic: Developing Artificial Intelligence System Supporting Decision
with High Certainty by Fusing Information from Multi-Sensors Systems, Co- PI
with Dr. Guy Leshem, and Dr. Michal Chalamish, Role : Co-PI,2014, (no score
was given)
8. Scholarships Awards and Prizes
2015
Award of research Excellency- Ashkelon Academic College (20% of
annual salary)
2011
Award of research Excellency- Ashkelon Academic College(20% of
annual salary)(allowed once in three years)
2005
Team member of software agent that participated in the International
Trading Agent Competitions in Supply Chain Management Game
Placement: 2nd
2004
Team member of software agent that participated in the International
Trading Agent Competitions in Supply Chain Management Game
Placement: 6th
2003
Prize for excellent research by Computer Science Dept., Bar Ilan
University
AAMAS’03 Travel Grant (1500$)
2003
9. Teaching
A. Courses Taught in recent Years
Year
2006-
Name of Course
Automata and
Type of course
Mandatory
Degree
B.Sc
10
Formal Langauges
Mathematical Logic
for Computer
Science
Artificial
Intelligence
Computability and
Complexity
Introduction to
Computer Science
Game Theory for
Multi-Agent
Systems
Digital Logic
Systems
2006-
2006200620062006-
2011-2014
Mandatory
B.Sc
Mandatory
B.Sc
Mandatory
B.Sc
Mandatory
B.Sc
Selective Course
B.Sc, M.S, Ph.D
Mandatory
B.Sc
B. Supervision of Graduate Students
Ms.c. Students
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Shani Alkoby Bar-Ilan university (with Prof.. David Sarne), 2011-2013
graduated with distinction
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Dorit Hutzler- Intelligent Tutoring System for Reading Comprehension,
Open University (with Dr. Mirrei Avigal- Open University ) 2012-2014
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Hodaya Uzan -Automatically Categorizing by Author's Political Opinion,
Bar-Ilan University (with Prof. Moshe Koppel-Bar Ilan University ) 20122014
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Chiang Alvin- Algorithm for The fusion of Anomaly Detection Algorithms
(Taiwan , with Prof. Lee Yuh-Jye- University of Wisconsin - Madison) 20142015
Referee of M.Sc. theses at Hebrew University, Prof Jeff Rosenchein; 2009
Referee of M.Sc. theses at Hebrew University; Prof Jeff Rosenchein ;2008
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‫בס"ד‬
Esther David
August 2015
PUBLICATIONS (For Joint Publication Equal Contribution)
A. Ph.D. Dissertation
Title: Agents for Multi-Attribute Auctions
Submitted: August 2003
Approved: March 2004
Number of Pages: 103
Languge : English
Institution: Bar Ilan University
Advisor: Prof. Sarit Kraus
B. Scienticic Book
 Elements of Computational Logic and Strategic Behavior, Esther
David, Dov M. Gabbay, and Rina Azoulay, Springer International
Publishing (signed contract Nov 2015 )
C. Scientific Edited Books
1. (*)Esther David, Enrico Gerding, David Sarne, and Onn Shehory, editors, Agent
Mediated Electronic Commerce-Designing Trading Strategies and Mechanisms for
Electronic Markets, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Volume 59,
Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010.
2.
(*)Esther David,
Valentin Robu, Onn Shehory, Sebastian Stein and Andreas
Symeonidis, editors, Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce- Designing Trading
Strategies and Mechanisms for Electronic Markets, Lecture Notes in Business
Information Processing, Volume 119, Springer, 2012.
3. (*)Esther David, Kate Larson, Alex Rogers, Onn Shehory, and Sebastian Stein,
editors, Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce- Designing Trading Strategies and
Mechanisms for Electronic Markets, Lecture Notes in Business Information
Processing, Volume 118, Springer, 2012.
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4. (*)Esther David, Christopher Kiekintveld, Valentin Robu, Onn Shehory, Sebastian
Stein, editors, Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce. Designing Trading Strategies
and Mechanisms for Electronic Markets - AMEC and TADA 2012, Valencia, Spain,
June 4th, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Business Information
Processing 136, Springer 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-40863-2
5. (*)Sofia Ceppi, Esther David, Vedran Podobnik, Valentin Robu, Onn Shehory,
Sebastian Stein, Ioannis A. Vetsikas, editors, gent-Mediated Electronic Commerce.
Designing Trading Strategies and Mechanisms for Electronic Markets- AMEC 2013,
Saint Paul, MN, USA, May 6, 2013, TADA 2013, Bellevue, WA, USA, July 15,
2013, and AMEC and TADA 2014, Paris, France, May 5, 2014, Revised Selected
Papers. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing Volume 187 Springer
2014, ISBN: 978-3-319-13217-4 (Print) 978-3-319-13218-1 (Online)
http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/426/bok%253A978-3-319-132181.pdf?auth66=1419238925_b7aadc180e2463b7a21185fa3282d38e&ext=.pdf
D. Articles in Refereed Journals
1. Alex Rogers, Esther David, and Nicholas R. Jennings, (2005) Self-Organized
Routing for Wireless Micro-Sensor Networks. IEEE Transactions on Systems,
Man, and Cybernetics, Part A 35(3):pp. 349-359. (97 citations) (IF 3.47)
2. (*)Esther David, Rina Azoulay-Schwartz, and Sarit Kraus, (2006) Bidding in
Sealed-bid and English Multi-Attribute Auctions. Decision Support Systems, Vol
42(2), Pages 527-556. (118 citation)(IF 2.933)
3. (*)Alex Rogers, Esther David, Jeremy Schiff, and Nick R. Jennings, (2007) The
Effect of Proxy Bidding and Minimum Bid Increments within eBay Auctions, ACM
Transaction on the Web 1(2) article 9 (28 pages) (39 citations) (IF 2.45)
4. (*)Esther David, Alex Rogers, Jeremy Schiff, Sarit Kraus, Michael Rothkopf, and
Nick R. Jennings, N. (2007) Optimal Design Of English Auctions With Discrete Bid
Levels. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology 7(2) article 12 (34 pages). (60
citations) (IF 2.077)
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5. (*)Raj Dash, Krishnen Vytelingum, Alex Rogers, Esther David, and Nicholas R.
Jennings, (2007) Market-Based Task Allocation Mechanisms for Limited
Capacity Suppliers. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part
A., 37(3) pp 391-405. (61 citations)(IF 3.45)
6. (*)Esther David and Rina Asulay (2012) Optimal Mechanisms for Multi-Attribute
English Auctions, Advancements and Developments in Applied Mathematics, Volume
1(2012) Issue 2 (March) article 4 (35 pages).
7. (*)David Sarne, Shani Alkobi, and Esther David (2014) On the Choice of Obtaining
and Disclosing the Common Value in Auctions, Artificial Intelligence Journal,
215:24-54. (IF3.726)
8. (*)Rina Azoulay and Esther David, (2014) Truthful and Efficient Mechanisms for
Site Oriented Advertising Auctions, MAGS – Multiagent and Grid Systems,
10(2):67-94. (IF 0.7)
9. (*)Esther David and Efrat Manisterski (2014) Efficient Allocation of Agent Groups
for Performing Complex Tasks, Aditi Journal of Mathematical Physics, AJMP, Vol.
6(1) 2014, Pages:1-87
10. (*) Esther David, Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Moshe Koppel, Hodaya Uzan,
(2015), "Utilizing Facebook Pages of the Political Parties to Automatically Predict
the Political orientation of Facebook Users, Online Information Review, In press.
11. (*) Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Esther David, Moshe Koppel, Hodaya Uzan
(2015), "Utilizing overtly Political texts for fully automatic evaluation of political
leaning of online news websites", Online Information Review, Vol : 40 issue: 3.
E. Articles or Chapters in Scientific Books
1. Esther David, Rina Azoulay-Schwartz and Sarit Kraus. (2002) An English
Auction Protocol for Multi-Attributes Items, in J. Padget, D. Parkes, N. Sadeh, O.
Shehory and W. Walsh, editors., Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce IV:
Designing Mechanisms and Systems, LNAI vol. 2531, pp. 52-68. (84 citation)
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2. Minguha He, Alex Rogers, Esther David, and Nicholas R. Jennings, (2005)
Designing and Evaluating an Adaptive Trading Agent for Supply Chain Management
Applications, in La Poutré, H., Sadeh, N. and Sverker, J., editors. Agent-mediated
Electronic Commerce, Designing Trading Agents and Mechanisms: AAMAS 2005
Workshop AMEC 2005, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 25, 2005, and IJCAI 2005
Workshop TADA 2005, Edinburgh, UK, August 1, 2005, Selected and Revised
Papers, pp. 35-42. Springer. (41 citations)
3. Alex Rogers, Esther David, Jeremy Schiff, Sarit Kraus, S. and Nicholas R.
Jennings, (2005) Learning Environmental Parameters For The Design Of Optimal
English Auctions With Discrete Bid Levels, in La Poutré, H., Sadeh, N. and Sverker,
J., editors. Agent-mediated Electronic Commerce, Designing Trading Agents and
Mechanisms: AAMAS 2005 Workshop, AMEC 2005, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 25,
2005, and IJCAI 2005 Workshop, TADA 2005, Edinburgh, UK, August 1, 2005,
Selected and Revised Papers, pp. 1-15. Springer (10 citations)
4. (*)Esther David and David Sarne, (2010) The choice of Eliminating the Uncertainty
Cloud in Auctions, in Esther David, Enrico Gerding, David Sarne, and Onn
Shehory, editors. Agent-mediated Electronic Commerce, Designing Trading
Strategies and Mechanisms for Electronic Markets: AAMAS Workshop, AMEC 2009,
Budapest, Hungary, May 12. 2009, and IJCAI Workshop, TADA 2009, Pasadena, CA,
USA, July 13, 2009, selected and revised papers, Vol 59, pp. 15-28. Springer
F. Articles in Conference Proceedings
Published
1. Esther David and Sarit Kraus. (2000). Agents for Broadcasting Environment, in
N. Jennings and Y. Lesperance (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence,
Intelligent Agents VI, 91-105 (10 citations)
2. Esther David, Rina Azoulay-Schwartz and Sarit Kraus. (2002) Protocols and
Strategies for Automated Multi Attributes Auctions, Proc. 1st Int. Conf. on
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS’02), Bologna, Italy, pp.
77-85. (90 citations)
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3. Esther David, Rina Azulay-Schwartz, Sarit Kraus, (2003) Bidders` strategy for
Multi-Attribute Sequential English Auction with a Deadline. Proc. 2nd Int. Conf.
on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS’03) Melbourne,
Australia, pp 457-464. (45 citations)
4. Krishnen Vytelingum, Esther David and Nicholas R. Jennings. (2004) A RiskBased Bidding Strategy for Continuous Double Auctions. Proceedings of the 16th
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Spain, pp. 79-83. (60
citations)
5. Esther David, Alex Rogers, Jeremy Schiff, Sarit Kraus, and Nicholas R.
Jennings, (2005) Optimal Design of English Auctions with Discrete Bid Levels,
Proc. of 6th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'05) Vancouver,
Canada, pp. 98-107.
6. (*)Terry Payne, Esther David, Nick R. Jennings, and Mathias Sharifi, M. (2006 )
Auction Mechanisms for Efficient Advertisement Selection on Public Displays,
Proceedings of European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Trento, Italy, pp. 285289 (67 citations)
7. (*)Efrat Manisterski, Esther David, Sarit Kraus, Nick Jennings, (2006) Forming
Efficient Agent Groups for Completing Complex Tasks , Proc. 5st Int. Conf. on
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS’06), Japan, pp. 834-841. (46
citations)
8. Mathias Sharifi, Terry Payne, Esther David, (2006) Public Display Advertizing based
on Bluetooth Device Presence, Mobile Interaction with Real World (MIRW 2006),
52-59 (37 citations)
9. (*)Maria Karam, Terry R. Payne and Esther David. (2007) Evaluating BluScreen:
Usability for Intelligent Pervasive Displays. The Second IEEE International
Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications (ICPCA07), 2007, 68-73 (19
citations)
10. (*)Alex Rogers , Esther David, Terry Payne, and Nicholas R. Jennings, (2007) An
Advanced Bidding Agent for Advertisement Selection on Public Displays,
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International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
(AAMAS’07), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, pp. 251-258 (16 citations)
11. (*)Shani Alkoby, David Sarne and Esther David ,(2012) On the choice of Obtaining
and Disclosing the Common Value in Auctions, Proc of the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM
International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'12), Macau, 2012,
pp. 111-118.
12. (*) Esther David and Rina Azulay, (2012) No More Damaging Ads on Your Own
Webpage-Strategy Proof Mechanisms for Ad Placement, Proc of the 2012
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'12),
Macau, 2012, pp. 140-145.
13. (*)Esther David, Efrat Manisterski, Sarit Kraus and Nicholas R. Jennings (2012)
Efficient Complex Tasks Allocation Within Agents Environment of Known
Capabilities. Proc of the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'12), Macau, 2012, pp. 299-304.
14. (*)Efrat Manistersky, Esther David, Sarit Kraus and Nicholas R. Jennings, (2012)
Efficient Allocation of Agent Groups for Complex Tasks in Real Cost Environments,
IEEE International Conference on Software Science, Technology & Engineering
(SWESTE2012), 2012, pp 54-62.
15. (*)Esther David and Efrat Manisterski, (2013) Strategy Proof Mechanism for
Complex Task Allocations in Prior Consent for Subtasks Completion Environment,
Proc of the 2013 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent
Technology (IAT'13), Atlanta, Georgia, USA 2013, 209-215.
16. (*) Shani Alkoby, David Sarne, and Esther David, (2014) Manipulating
Information Providers Access to Information in Auctions. 24th Int. conference on
Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence ,TAAI-2014, Taiwan , in
Shin-Ming Cheng, Min-Yuh Day
Eds. Technologies and Applications of
Artificial Intelligence.- 19th International Conference, TAAI 2014, Taipei,
Taiwan, November 21-23, 2014. Proceedings,LNCS, Vol 8916, pp. 14-25 ISBN:
978-3-319-13986-9 (Print) 978-3-319-13987-6 (Online)
17. (*)Esther David, Guy Leshem, Michal Chalamish, Alvin Chiang, and Dana Shapira,
(2014) Expert-Based Fusion Algorithm of an Ensemble of Anomaly Detection
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Algorithms. 24th Int. conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial
Intelligence ,TAAI-2014, Taiwan, in Shin-Ming Cheng, Min-Yuh Day Eds.
Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence 19th International
Conference, TAAI 2014, Taipei, Taiwan, November 21-23, 2014. Proceedings,LNCS,
Vol 8916, pp. 114-123 ISBN: 978-3-319-13986-9 (Print) 978-3-319-13987-6
(Online)
18. (*)Dorit Hutzler, Esther David, Mireille Avigal, Rina Azoulay, (2014) Learning
Methods for Rating the Difficulty of Reading Comprehension Questions, Proceedings
of Software Science, Technology and Engineering, SwSTE'14 Ramat Gan, Israel , 5462
19. (*)Guy Leshem, Esther David, Michal Chalamish, and Dana Shapira, (2014)
Reputation Prediction of Anomaly Detection Algorithms for Reliable System,
Proceedings of Software Science, Technology and Engineering, SwSTE'14, Ramat
Gan, Israel, 19-23
20. (*)Rina Azulay, Esther David , Dorit Hutzler, Mireille Avigal, (2014), Adaptation
Schemes for Questions Level to be Proposed by Intelligent Tutoring Systems,
Proceedings of the 6th Int. Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence,
ICAART-14 Anger, France, 245-255.
21. (*)Hodaya Uzan, Esther David, Moshe Koppel, and Maayan Gefet,
(2015) Automatic Political Profiling in Heterogeneous Corpora, Proceedings of
the 7th Int. Conference on Agents and Artificial, 476-481.
22. (*)Rina Azoulay and Esther David, (2015) Ad Exchange: Intention Driven
Auction Mechanisms for Mediating Between Publishers and Advertisers, Proc of
the 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
(IAT'15), Singapore.
Extended Abstract
23. Alex Rogers, Esther David, and Nicholas R. Jennings, (2004) Selfish Sensors in
Wireless Micro-Sensor Networks, Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and
Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS’04), New-York USA.(poster)
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G. Articles in Refereed Workshop Proceedings
Published
1. Esther David, Rina Azoulay-Schwartz and Sarit Kraus, (2003) The Design of the
Multi-Attribute English Auction with a Deadline Vs. the eBay Auction Protocol,
Proc 5th Int. Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce, (AMEC’03),
Melbourne, Australia.
2. (*)Terry R. Payne, Esther David, Nicholas R. Jennings, and Mathias Sharifi,
(2006), Auction Mechanisms for Efficient Advertisement Selection on Public
Displays (Extended Abstract), Proceedings of Fourth European Workshop on
Multi Agent Systems, Lisbon, Portugal.
3. (*)Shani Alkoby, David Sarne and Esther David (2012) On the Choice of
Obtaining and Disclosing the Common Value in auctions, Proc 14th Int.
Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce and Trading Agent Design and
Analysis (AMEC&TADA 2012), Valencia, Spain, 2012
4. (*)Esther David and Rina Azoulay, (2015) It Does Matter Who I sell to and Who
I Buy From: Weighted Bilateral VCG , Proc of the 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM
International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology- Int. workshop on
Knowledge Management of Web Social Media (KMWSM), Singapore.
H. Patents
1. US 6,449,632 B1, Apparatus and Methods for Agent-Based Feedback Collection
in a Data Broadcasting Network. Inventors: Esther David, Shlomo Kipnis, Sarit
Kraus, David Richardson. (61 citations)
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2. UK GB 2348530 B, Collecting User Feedback in a Broadcasting System,
Inventors: Esther David, Shlomo Kipnis, Sarit Kraus, David Richardson.
I. Submitted Publications
Refereed Journal Papers
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