Noam Hazon – CV
Department of Computer Science 23/1 Yehuda Hanasi st. Ariel University Petah Tiqwa, Israel Ariel, Israel (972)-50-5404321 [email protected] https://www.ariel.ac.il/wp/noam-hazon/
Education
Ph.D. 2007-2010 Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel Department of Computer Science Research area: Artificial Intelligence, Multi Agent Systems Topic: Social Interaction under Uncertainty in Multi Agent Systems Advisors: Prof. Sarit Kraus and Prof. Yonatan Aumann
M.Sc. 2004-2005 Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel Department of Computer Science Graduated summa cum laude, with excellence Research area: Multi Robot Systems Topic: Robust and Efficient Multi Robot Coverage Thesis grade: 95 Advisor: Prof. Gal A. Kaminka
B.Sc. 2001-2003 Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel Department of Computer Science Graduated summa cum laude in Computer Science (extended), with excellence
Work Experience
Technical Senior Lecturer 2018-present Ariel University, Ariel, Israel Department of Computer Science
Lecturer 2014-2017 Ariel University, Ariel, Israel Department of Computer Science
Postdoctoral Fellow 2013 Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel Department of Computer Science Member of the AIM Lab Hosted by: Prof. Sarit Kraus
Postdoctoral Fellow 2011-2012 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Robotics Institute Member of the Advanced Agent-Robotics Technology Lab Hosted by: Prof. Katia Sycara
Software Engineer 2003-2006 Applied Materials Inc. Developing and programming infrastructure components for the inspection machine's operating system, using C++ (Windows)
Teaching 2008-2010 Teaching Assistant, Bar Ilan University, Israel a. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence b. Computer structure
2006 Lecturer, The Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel Computer structure
Honors, Scholarships and Awards
2020 Blue sky idea award (2nd place) at the AAAI-20 senior member presentation track (sponsored by CCC) 2017 Outstanding lecturer, Ariel University 2011 Finalist for Best Paper award, AAMAS-11 2008 Clore Foundation Scholarship for Ph.D. students. Nomination was submitted by the Department of Computer Science and the Rector of Bar Ilan University 2007 President's scholarship, Bar-Ilan University 2005 M.Sc. summa cum laude 2003 a. Dean's excellence award, Bar-Ilan University b. B.Sc. summa cum laude 2002 a. Dean's excellence award, Bar-Ilan University b. Wolf Foundation grant for undergraduate students Nomination was submitted and recommended by the Department of Computer Science, Bar Ilan University 2001 Dean's excellence award, Bar-Ilan University
Research Grants
2019-2021 “Human-Centric Ridesharing”, Ministry of Science & Technology, Israel, 600,000 NIS (Additional PI: Amos Azaria)
2019 “EC-RIDER: Explainable AI Methods for Human-Centric Ridesharing”, Artificial Intelligence and the Society of the Future (planning grant) by VolkswagenStiftung, 147,700 € (Additional PIs: Amos Azaria, Lutz Kolbe, Sarit Kraus, Jörg P. Müller, Mark Vollrath)
2015-2017 “How to Change a Group's Collective Decision?”, Israel Science Foundation (ISF) grant No.1488/14, 690,000 NIS (Additional PI: Sarit Kraus)
Publications
Papers published in refereed journals
Laurent Bulteau, Noam Hazon, Rutvik Page, Ariel Rosenfeld, Nimrod Talmon. Justified Representation for Perpetual Voting. IEEE Access 9: 96598-96612, 2021. DOI.
Chaya Levinger, Noam Hazon and Amos Azaria. Human satisfaction as the ultimate goal in ridesharing. Future Generation Computer Systems 112:176-184, 2020. DOI.
Noam Hazon and Mira Gonen. Probabilistic Physical Search on General Graphs: Approximations and Heuristics. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS) 34(1):1, 2020. DOI.
Orgad Keller, Avinatan Hassidim and Noam Hazon. Approximating Weighted and Priced Bribery in Scoring Rules. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 66:1057-1098, 2019. DOI.
Orgad Keller, Avinatan Hassidim and Noam Hazon. New Approximations for Coalitional Manipulation in Scoring Rules. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 64:109-145, 2019. DOI.
Liat Sless, Noam Hazon, Sarit Kraus and Michael Wooldridge. Forming k Coalitions and Facilitating Relationships in Social Networks. Artificial Intelligence 259:217-245, 2018. DOI.
Yue Yin, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Bo An and Noam Hazon. Optimal Defense Against Election Control by Deleting Voter Groups. Artificial Intelligence 259:32-51, 2018. DOI.
Chen Hajaj, Noam Hazon and David Sarne. Enhancing Comparison Shopping Agents through Ordering and Gradual Information Disclosure. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS) 31(3):696-714, 2017. DOI.
Chen Hajaj, Noam Hazon, David Sarne. Improving Comparison Shopping Agents’ Competence through Selective Price Disclosure. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (ECRA) 14(6):563-581, 2015. DOI.
Noam Hazon, Yonatan Aumann, David Sarne and Sarit Kraus. Physical Search Problems with Probabilistic Knowledge. Artificial Intelligence, 196:26-52, 2013
Noam Hazon, Yonatan Aumann, Sarit Kraus and Michael Wooldridge. On the Evaluation of Election Outcomes under Uncertainty. Artificial Intelligence 189:1-18, 2012
Noa Agmon, Noam Hazon and Gal A. Kaminka. The Giving Tree: Constructing Trees for Efficient Offline and Online Multi-Robot Coverage. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AMAI) 52:143-168, 2008
Noam Hazon and Gal A. Kaminka. On Redundancy, Efficiency, and Robustness in Coverage for Multiple Robots. Robotics and Autonomous Systems 56:1102-1114, 2008
Papers published in referred book chapters
David Zar, Noam Hazon and Amos Azaria. Explaining Ridesharing: Selection of Explanations for Increasing User Satisfaction. EUMAS 2021, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12802:89-107, 2021
Noam Hazon and Edith Elkind. Complexity of Safe Strategic Voting. Algorithmic Game Theory, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6386:210-221, 2010
Papers published in refereed conferences proceedings
Leora Schmerler and Noam Hazon. Strategic Voting in Negotiating Teams. The 7th International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory (ADT-21), 2021 (Acceptance rate 27/58=46.6%)
Naftali Waxman, Sarit Kraus and Noam Hazon. Manipulation of k-Coalitional Games on Social Networks. The 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-21), 2021 (Acceptance rate 587/4202=13.9%)
Avishai Zagoury, Orgad Keller, Avinatan Hassidim, and Noam Hazon. Targeted Negative Campaigning: Complexity and Approximations. The 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-21), 2021 (Acceptance rate 1692/9034=18.7%)
Sören Schleibaum, Maike Greve, Tim-Benjamin Lembcke, Amos Azaria, Jelena Fiosina, Noam Hazon, Lutz Kolbe, Sarit Kraus, Jörg P. Müller and Mark Vollrath. How Did You Like This Ride? An Analysis of User Preferences in Ridesharing Assignments. The 6th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems (VEHITS-20), 2020
Yael Sabato, Amos Azaria and Noam Hazon. Viral vs. Effective: Utility Based Influence Maximization. The 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-20), 2020 (Acceptance rate 186/808=23%)
Chaya Levinger, Noam Hazon and Amos Azaria. Computing the Shapley Value for Ride- Sharing and Routing Games. The 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-20), 2020 (Short paper, acceptance rate 129/808=16%)
Noam Hazon and Mira Gonen. Probabilistic Physical Search on General Graphs: Approximations and Heuristics. The 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-20), 2020 (JAAMAS track)
Sarit Kraus, Amos Azaria, Jelena Fiosina, Maike Greve, Noam Hazon, Lutz Kolbe, Tim- Benjamin Lembcke, Jörg P. Müller, Sören Schleibaum and Mark Vollrath. AI for Explaining Decisions in Multi-Agent Environments. The 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20), 2020. Blue sky idea award (2nd place) at the senior member presentation track.
Anisse Ismaili, Noam Hazon, Emi Watanabe, Makoto Yokoo and Sarit Kraus. Complexity and Approximations in Robust Coalition Formation via Max-Min k-Partitioning. The 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-19), 2019 (Short paper, acceptance rate 218/781=30%)
Sefi Erlich, Noam Hazon and Sarit Kraus. Negotiation Strategies for Agents with Ordinal Preferences. The 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI-18), 2018 (Acceptance rate 710/3470=20.4%)
Orgad Keller, Avinatan Hassidim and Noam Hazon. Approximating Bribery in Scoring Rules. The 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), 2018 (Acceptance rate 933/3800=24.6%)
Orgad Keller, Avinatan Hassidim and Noam Hazon. New Approximation for Borda Coalitional Manipulation. The 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-17), 2017 (Acceptance rate 155/595=26%)
Yue Yin, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Bo An and Noam Hazon. Optimally Protecting Elections. The 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-16), 2016 (Acceptance rate 550/2294 = 24%)
Sigal Sina, Noam Hazon, Avinatan Hassidim and Sarit Kraus. Adapting the Social Network to Affect Elections. The 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-15), 2015 (Acceptance rate 167/670 = 24.9%)
Samuel Barrett, Noa Agmon, Noam Hazon, Sarit Kraus and Peter Stone. Communicating with Unknown Teammates. The 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-14), 2014 (Acceptance rate 158/562 = 28.1%)
Chen Hajaj, Noam Hazon and David Sarne. Ordering Effects and Belief Adjustment in the Use of Comparison Shopping Agents. The 28th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-14), 2014 (Acceptance rate 398/1406 = 28.3%)
Liat Sless, Noam Hazon, Sarit Kraus and Michael Wooldridge. Forming Coalitions and Facilitating Relationships for Completing Tasks in Social Networks. The 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent System (AAMAS-14), 2014 (Acceptance rate 169/709 = 23.8%)
Samuel Barrett, Noa Agmon, Noam Hazon, Sarit Kraus and Peter Stone. Communicating with Unknown Teammates. The 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent System (AAMAS-14), 2014 (short paper, acceptance rate 159/709 = 22.4%)
Noam Hazon, Raz Lin and Sarit Kraus. How to Change a Group’s Collective Decision? The 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-13), 2013 (Acceptance rate 413/1473 = 28%)
Chen Hajaj, Noam Hazon, David Sarne and Avsahlom Elmalich. Search More, Disclose Less. The 27th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-13), 2013 (Acceptance rate 203/690 = 29.4%)
Steven Okamoto, Noam Hazon, Katia Sycara. Solving Non-Zero Sum Multiagent Network Flow Security Games with Attack Costs. The 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent System (AAMAS-12), 2012 (Acceptance rate 137/671 = 20.4%)
Noam Hazon, Nilanjan Chakraborty and Katia Sycara. Game Theoretic Modeling and Computational Analysis of N-Player Conflicts over Resources. The Third IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom-11), 2011 (Acceptance rate 193/1969 = 9.8%)
Svetlana Obraztsova, Edith Elkind and Noam Hazon. Ties Matter: Complexity of Voting Manipulation Revisited. The 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11), 2011. Invited paper (best paper track). (Acceptance rate 227/1325 = 17.1%)
Svetlana Obraztsova, Edith Elkind and Noam Hazon. Ties Matter: Complexity of Voting Manipulation Revisited. The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent System (AAMAS-11), 2011. Finalist for best paper award. (Acceptance rate 127/575 = 22%)
Noam Hazon, Yonatan Aumann and Sarit Kraus. Collaborative Multi Agent Physical Search with Probabilistic Knowledge. The Twenty-first International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), 2009 (Acceptance rate 331/1290 = 25.7%)
Yonatan Aumann, Noam Hazon, Sarit Kraus and David Sarne. Physical Search Problems Applying Economic Search Models. The Twenty-Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-08), 2008 (Acceptance rate 227/937 = 24.2%)
Noam Hazon. Social Interaction under Uncertainty in Multi Agent Systems. The Thirteenth Annual AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium (In association with AAAI-08), 2008 (Acceptance rate 227/937 = 24.2%)
Noam Hazon, Yonatan Aumann, Sarit Kraus and Michael Wooldridge. Evaluation of Election Outcomes under Uncertainty. The Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent System (AAMAS-08), 2008 (Acceptance rate 141/640 = 22%)
Noam Hazon, Fabrizio Mieli and Gal A. Kaminka. Towards Robust On-Line Multi-Robot Coverage. The IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA-06), 2006 (Acceptance rate 680/1756 = 38.7%)
Noa Agmon, Noam Hazon and Gal A. Kaminka. Constructing Spanning Trees for Efficient Multi-Robot Coverage. The IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA-06), 2006 (Acceptance rate 680/1756 = 38.7%)
Noam Hazon and Gal A. Kaminka. Redundancy, Efficiency, and Robustness in Multi-Robot Coverage. The IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA-05), 2005 (Acceptance rate 771/1700 = 45.4%)
Paper published in refereed workshops and scientific reports
Leora Schmerler and Noam Hazon. Strategic Voting in Negotiation Teams. The 3rd Games, Agents, and Incentives Workshop (GAIW-2021), 2021
Chaya Levinger, Noam Hazon and Amos Azaria. Cost Allocation for Prioritized Ridesharing. Fair Allocation in Multiagent Systems Workshop (FAMAS), 2019.
Chaya Levinger, Noam Hazon and Amos Azaria. A Method for Maximizing Human Satisfaction in Ridesharing. The 4th International Workshop on Agent-Based Modelling of Urban Systems (ABMUS-2019), 2019.
Sefi Erlich, Noam Hazon and Sarit Kraus. Negotiation Strategies for Agents with Ordinal Preferences. The Seventh International Workshop on Computational Social Choice (COMSOC-18), 2018.
Noam Hazon, Mira Gonen and Max Kleb. Approximation and Heuristic Algorithms for Probabilistic Physical Search on General Graphs. CoRR abs/1509.08088, 2015
Noam Hazon and Edith Elkind. Complexity of Safe Strategic Voting. The Third International Workshop on Computational Social Choice (COMSOC-10), 2010. Early version presented in The First Workshop on Cooperative Games in Multiagent Systems (CoopMAS-10), 2010
Noam Hazon, Paul E. Dunne, Sarit Kraus and Michael Wooldridge. How to Rig Elections and Competitions. The 2nd International Workshop on Computational Social Choice (COMSOC-08), 2008. Early version presented in The 9th Bar-Ilan Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (BISFAI-07), 2007
Noam Hazon, Yonatan Aumann, Sarit Kraus and Michael Wooldridge. Evaluation of Election Outcomes under Uncertainty. DIMACS Workshop on the Boundary between Economic Theory and Computer Science, 2007
Papers submitted for publication in referred journals
Chaya Levinger, Noam Hazon and Amos Azaria. Efficient Computation and Estimation of the Shapley Value for Traveling Salesman Games. Submitted to IEEE Access, 2021
Working Papers
Ido Kahana and Noam Hazon. The Leximin Approach for Online Perpetual Voting.
Chaya Levinger, Noam Hazon and Amos Azaria. Social Aware assignment of Passengers in Ridesharing
Yael Sabato, Noam Hazon and Amos Azaria. Source Detection in Networks using the Stationary Distribution
Meir Nizri, Amos Azaria and Noam Hazon. Explainable Shapley-Based Allocation.
Hila Shoshan, Erel Segal-Halevi and Noam Hazon. Fair and Efficient Division of Chores under Capacity Constraints.
Arcady Beriozkin, Or Anidjar, Noam Hazon and Amos Azaria. A Machine Learning Approach to Prediction of Characteristic Functions of Porous Materials.
Patents
Selective Options Disclosure Method for Affecting a User's Decision-Making; Pending 2013. Inventors: David Sarne, Noam Hazon, Chen Hajaj. US Provisional Application No. 61/842,974.
Students Supervision
Current Chaya Levinger. Ph.D. (with Amos Azaria), 2023 (expected) Yael Sabato. Ph.D. (with Amos Azaria), 2022 (expected) Leora Schmerler. Ph.D., 2025 (expected) David Zar. M.Sc. (with Amos Azaria), mid 2021 (expected) Hila Shoshan. M.Sc., 2022 (expected) Ido Kahana. M.Sc., 2022 (expected) Meir Nizri, M.Sc. (with Amos Azaria), 2022 (expected)
Graduated Leora Schmerler. M.Sc., 2020 Title: Strategic Voting in Negotiation Teams
Naftali Waxsman. M.Sc. (with Sarit Kraus), 2020 Title: Manipulation of k-Coalitional Games on Social Networks
Chaya Levinger. M.Sc. (with Amos Azaria), 2019 Title: A Human-Centric Approach for Last-Mile Ridesharing.
Or Anidjar. M.Sc. (with Amos Azaria and Arcady Beriozkin), 2018 Title: A Machine Learning Approach for Predicting Water Retention Curves of Porous Materials.
Sefi Erlich. M.Sc. (with Sarit Kraus), 2018 Title: Negotiation Strategies for Agents with Ordinal Preferences.
Liat Sless. M.Sc. (with Sarit Kraus), 2015 Title: Forming Coalitions and Facilitating Relationships for Completing Tasks in Social Networks.
Invited Talks
Noam Hazon. Adapting the Social Network to Affect Elections. Cyber-security seminar, Ariel University, 2016
Noam Hazon. Adapting the Social Network to Affect a Group’s Behavior. Game theory seminar, Bar Ilan University, 2015
Noam Hazon. Multiagent Network Flow Security Games. Cyber-security seminar, Ariel University, 2015
Noam Hazon. Physical Search Problems: Applying Economic Search Models. Research seminar, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, 2008
Professional Activities
Positions in Academic Administration 2018-present Head of the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence track
2019 Departmental coordinator for the course “Introduction to Computer Programming”
2016 Member of the steering committee for the establishment of a school for gifted girls
2016 Member of the departmental vision committee
2014-2016 Departmental coordinator for the field of statistics and probability
Professional Functions Outside the University Program Chair BISFAI 2017
Journal Track Chair IJCAI 2019
Senior Program Committee Member AAAI 2022, IJCAI 2021, AAAI 2020, AAAI 2019, IJCAI 2016
Program Committee Member IJCAI 2022, AAMAS 2022, AAMAS 2021, GAIW 2021, CoopAI 2020, MRS 2019, IJCAI 2018, GameSec 2018, AMEC/TADA 2016, AAAI 2016, AAMAS 2015, AAAI 2015, IJCAI 2013, AAAI 2012, AAMAS 2012, IJCAI 2011, AMEC 2011
Reviewer 2020 Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) 2017,2020 Israel Science Foundation (ISF) 2015-2016 Computational Intelligence 2014-2019 Artificial Intelligence (AIJ) 2013 Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) 2011-2012 Journal of Group Decision and Negotiation 2010 Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS)
ADT 2015, AAMAS 2013, IJCAI 2009, AAAI 2008, AAAI 2007