Prof. Kraus won the award thanks to her research in the field of interactions between self-interested agents, creating a field of automatic negotiation, and developing methods for creating coalitions and work teams, both as formal models and as real-world applications
Prof. Sarit Kraus won the IJCAI (International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence) award for research excellence in the field of artificial intelligence. The award is given to scientists who have led high-level research throughout their careers and produced significant results.
Prof. Kraus from the Department of Computer Science At Bar-Ilan University, she was chosen to receive the award in light of her pioneering work in the field of interactions between self-interested agents, creating a field of automatic negotiation, and developing methods for creating coalitions and work teams, both as formal models and as applications in the real world.
Prof. Kraus's main research field is artificial intelligence and especially multi-agent systems. It focuses on understanding the ways to create competing scenarios and examines whether models of human behavior may predict future decisions and play a vital role in dealing with these challenges.
Her research is based on methods and algorithms from the field of machine learning, theories of decision making, game theory, alternative logic, optimization under conditions of uncertainty and psychology.
In her work, Prof. Kraus tries to understand how best to create agents that will communicate with humans skillfully. According to her, modeling of human behaviors, with the help of which it will be possible to predict their decision-making, is the way to create this interaction. Prof. Kraus's research applications are used in many fields, including physical safety, smart cars, training, recommendation systems, automatic negotiation management and more.
Prof. Krauss is also a fellow researcher at the Multidisciplinary Center for Brain Research at Bar-Ilan University. In 2018, a joint book was published between her and Dr. Ariel Rosenfeld, Predicting Human Decision-Making: From Prediction to Action. The book joins a very long series of publications and conferences in which Prof. Kraus presented the fruits of her research work, starting in 1983.
Prof. Kraus founded the research field of automatic systems that maintain negotiations and developed for the first time algorithms to create coalitions (temporary collaborations) between computerized systems. In 2010 she received the A.M.T. She is the first woman from Bar-Ilan to be elected as an active member of the Israeli National Academy of Sciences, the most senior scientific body working to foster and promote science in Israel.
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