Projects @ IIA
Supervising faculty: David Sarne
“Am I Rational?” Portal
• Goal: web-site for allowing people test their decision-making/problemsolving skills and level of rationality through game playing and riddle
solving
• Help society!
• Components: (a) Web-site management; (b) “Game” module and games
management; (c) User management; (d) Comparison to other users; (e) DB
management;
• Other tasks – light reading of scientific papers for enriching the games
library
• Technology – c#, client-server (browser-based), simple storage (files/basic
DB)
• Team: 4 students
• Ideal team member – GUI and IUI-oriented, capable of producing aesthetic
designs, studying 89-514 in parallel to project
Probabilistic Winner Determination in
Auctions
• Goal: develop a web-based auction that supports probabilistic winner
determination (a continuation project)
• Components: (a) Web-site for running the auction; (b) database for
managing bids; (c) User management; (d) results analysis and simulation
tools; (e) Advanced (extra credit) – support multi-user
• Other tasks – running some experiments with AMT
• Technology – c#, client-server (browser-based), integrate into AMT, simple
storage (files/basic DB)
• Team: 2 students
• Ideal team member – GUI and IUI-oriented, capable of producing aesthetic
designs
Selection Among Complex Alternatives
• Goal: develop an application (best – for android, acceptable – browserbased) for allowing people choose between complex alternatives (e.g.,
Sunglasses selection)
• Approach used – new method that combines absolute and ordinal
valuations of different instances of each alternative (or better – propose
your own method) + comparison to the traditional tournament approach
• Components: (a) client (connection to server only for receiving instances
for comparison and reporting results); (b) importing objects for comparison
(preferred – sunglasses images); (c) results processing
• Other tasks – support experimentation
• Technology – pick your own SDK, Integrate into AMT, simple storage
(files/basic DB), results processing
• Team: 2-3 students
• Ideal team member – GUI and IUI-oriented, capable of producing aesthetic
designs, studying 89-514 in parallel to project
Whatsapp Data Analysis
• Goal: Process and Mine a pile of (encrypted) Whatsapp data that was
collected last year
• Approach used – design a DB that will support effective mining (primarily
timeline-based) of the collected data, and research few initial hypothesis
using standard AI techniques (e.g., clustering, machine learning)
• Other components – develop scripts for testing the research hypotheses
through repeated re-division into test and training groups
• Team: 2-3 students
• Ideal team member – interested in data-science, data-mining, data-bases,
data-structures and social networks
Identifying Anomalies in Whatsapp Group
Usage
• Goal - Apply various AI techniques over collected (encrypted) AI data
for identifying “unusual” whatsapp groups
• Approach used – construct a set of measures over the activity over
time and relationships between group members and use clusteringlike methods for identifying abnormal groups
• Other components – develop a web-based application for running a
validation experiment
• Team: 2 students
• Ideal team member – interested in data-science, data-mining, databases, data-structures and social networks
General
• Creativity will be highly appreciated
• Weekly progress meetings (except for during exams periods)
• Great emphasis on documentation – including architecture
documents, high level designs, code documentation
• Advanced GUI whenever applicable