Research Publications

Colored Trails: Related Publications

Papers are presented in ascending alphabetical order by author. When citing Colored Trails, please use Grosz et al. (2004). A summary of selected Colored Trails studies can be found in Gal et al. (2005).

Conference Papers

• 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).
• Ece Kamar, Ya'akov Gal, Barbara Grosz. Modeling User Perception of Interaction Opportunities for Effective Teamwork, International Symposium on Social Intelligence and Networking, Vancouver, August 2009.
• Dimitrios Antos and Avi Pfeffer. Using Reasoning Patterns to Help Humans Solve Complex Games. In IJCAI, July 2009.
• 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.
• 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.)
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Ya'akov Gal and Avi Pfeffer. Modeling Reciprocity in Human Bilateral Negotiation.National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Vancouver, British Columbia, July 2007.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Graduate Theses

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

Undergraduate Theses

• Alex Allain. The effects of Context on Decision-making in Colored Trails. Undergraduate thesis, Harvard College, April 2006.
• Andre Veloso Moura. Cooperative Behavior Strategies in Colored Trails Undergraduate thesis, Harvard College, April 2003.