Alon Altman

Postdoc, Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA

Ph.D., Technion IIT, Haifa, Israel.

M.Sc. in Computer Science, Technion, IIT.

B.Sc. in Computer Science, Technion, IIT.

E-mail address: epsalonstanford.edu; research8ln.org

Office Address:

Department of Computer Science
353 Serra Mall, Gates 258
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-9020
USA

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

Current

Ranking systems, Recommender Systems, Online Reputation Systems, Axiomatic Foundations, Artificial Intelligence, Game Theory, Electronic Commerce, Multi-agent Systems, Mechanism design, Voting, Machine Learning, Graph Theory, Logic, Applications.

Past

Natural Language Processing, Semantics of Natural Language, Scope Ambigutities and Entailments, Natural Language Syntax, Automated Parsing of Natural Language.

Technical Interests

Operating Systems (Linux, UNIX, Windows), Systems, Programming, Functional Programming, Scripting Languages, Networking, Security, DRM, Multimedia, Web design and programming.

Lecture slides

An Axiomatic Approach to Ranking Systems [OpenOffice] [PDF] [Flash]

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Publications

Working Papers

2009	Thuc Vu and Alon Altman and Yoav Shoham, Optimal Seeding in Balanced Knockout Tournaments of Realistic Size.

Journal Papers

2009	Alon Altman and Moshe Tennenholtz, An Axiomatic Approach to Personalized Ranking Systems. In Journal of the ACM.
2008	Alon Altman and Moshe Tennenholtz, Axiomatic Foundations for Ranking Systems. In Journal of Artifical Intelligence Research (JAIR).
2005	Alon Altman and Ya'Acov Peterzil and Yoad Winter, Scope Dominance with Upward Monotone Quantifiers. In J. of Logic, Lang. and Inf..
2005	Alon Altman and Yoad Winter, Computing Dominant Readings with Upward Monotone Quantifiers. In Research on Language and Computation.
2001	Khalil Sima'an and Alon Itai and Yoad Winter and Alon Altman and Noa Nativ, Bulding a Tree-Bank of Modern Hebrew Text. In Traitement automatique des langues.

Conference Papers

2009	Thuc Vu and Alon Altman and Yoav Shoham, On the Complexity of Schedule Control Problems for Knockout Tournaments. In Proc. of AAMAS-09.
2009	Alon Altman and Ariel Procaccia and Moshe Tennenholtz, Nonmanipulable Selections from a Tournament. In Proc. 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
2009	Chris Archibald and Alon Altman and Yoav Shoham, Analysis of a winning computational billiards player. In Proc. 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
2008	Alon Altman and Moshe Tennenholtz, Strategyproof deterministic lotteries under broadcast communication. In 7th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), Estoril, Portugal, May 12-16, 2008, Volume 3.
2008	Thuc Vu and Alon Altman and Yoav Shoham, On the Agenda Control Problem for Knockout Tournaments. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Computational Social Choice (COMSOC-2008).
2007	Alon Altman and Moshe Tennenholtz, Incentive Compatible Ranking Systems. In Proc. of AAMAS-07.
2007	Alon Altman and Moshe Tennenholtz, An Axiomatic Approach to Personalized Ranking Systems. In Proc. 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
2006	Alon Altman and Moshe Tennenholtz, Quantifying Incentive Compatibility of Ranking Systems.. In Proc. of AAAI-06.
2006	Alon Altman and Avivit Bercovici-Boden and Moshe Tennenholtz, Learning in One-Shot Strategic Form Games.. In Proceedings of ECML 2006.
2005	Alon Altman and Moshe Tennenholtz, Ranking systems: the PageRank axioms. In EC '05: Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Electronic commerce.
2005	Alon Altman and Moshe Tennenholtz, On the Axiomatic Foundations of Ranking Systems.. In Proc. 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
2001	Alon Altman and Edward Keenan and Yoad Winter, Monotonicity and relative scope relations. In Proceedings of the 14th Amsterdam Colloquium.

Theses

2007	The Axiomatic Approach to Ranking Systems. PhD Thesis, Technion -- Israel Institution of Technology.
2003	Computation and Specification of Scope Dominance with Monotone Quantifiers in Natural Language. Masters Thesis, Technion -- Israel Institution of Technology.