Boi Faltings

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EPFL IC IINFCOM LIA
INR 230 (Bâtiment INR)
Station 14
1015 Lausanne

+41 21 693 27 38
Office: INR 230
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Fields of expertise

Artificial intelligence, Constraint programming, Multi-agent systems, Electronic commerce, Computational game theory

Current work

Some topics of current interest include:

Game-theoretic techniques for information elicitation
Adaptive software agents and multi-agent systems
Privacy-preserving Artificial Intelligence
Recommender systems
Continual machine learning

Biography

Boi Faltings is a full professor of computer science and heads the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,. He has held visiting positions at NEC Research Institute, Stanford University and the HongKong University of Science and Technology. He has co-founded 6 companies using AI for e-commerce and computer security and acted as advisor to several other companies. Prof. Faltings has published over 300 refereed papers and graduated over 40 Ph.D. students, several of which have won national and international awards. He is a fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence and a fellow of the Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). He holds a Diploma from ETH Zurich and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

CONTACT

Secretariat Karin Gétaz Building INR 231 Station 14 CH-1015 Lausanne Tel. 41 21 693 42 11 karin.getaz@epfl.ch

Publications

Infoscience publications

Infoscience

Extensions of Peer Prediction Incentive Mechanisms

A. J. Richardson / B. Faltings (Dir.)

Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9803.

Boi Faltings

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Current work

Biography

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Publications

Infoscience publications

Infoscience

Extensions of Peer Prediction Incentive Mechanisms

Incentives for Effort in Crowdsourcing using the Peer Truth Serum

Incentives to Counter Bias in Human Computation

Eliciting Truthful Information with the Peer Truth Serum

Incentive Mechanisms for Community Sensing

Eliciting Truthful Measurements from a Community of Sensors

Incentives for Answering Hypothetical Questions

Reporting incentives and biases in online review forums

A Publish/Subscribe Approach to Processing Continuous Queries over Sensor Streams

Continuous Query Evaluation over Distributed Sensor Networks

Forward Error Correction for Multipath Media Streaming

Mechanisms for Making Crowds Truthful

Rating aggregation in collaborative filtering systems

Aggregating Reputation Feedback

Processing Publish/Subscribe Queries over Distributed Data Streams

Truthful Opinions from the Crowds

Incentives for Expressing Opinions in Online Polls

System and method for monitoring quality of service

Query Driven Operator Placement for Complex Event Detection over Data Streams

Distributed Media Rate Allocation in Multipath Networks

Understanding User Behavior in Online Feedback Reporting

Robust Incentive-Compatible Feedback Payments

Reporting Incentives in Online Feedback Forums: The Influence of Effort

Reliable QoS Monitoring Based on Client Feedback

Providing Cooperative Incentives through the Structure of Social Networks

Obtaining Reliable Feedback for Sanctioning Reputation Mechanisms

Incentive-compatible Online Opinion Polls

Governing Environments for Agent-based Traffic Simulations

Collusion Resistant, Incentive Compatible Feedback Payments

Automated Dynamic Maintenance of Composite Services Based on Service Reputation

Automated Design of Prediction Market Pricing Functions

Truthful reputation mechanisms for online systems

Adaptive media streaming over multipath networks

Joint Network and Rate Allocation for Video Streaming over Multiple Wireless Networks

Joint Network and Rate Allocation for Simultaneous Wireless Applications

Enabling Adaptive Video Streaming in P2P Systems

Packet Media Streaming with Imprecise Rate Estimation

Media Flow Rate Allocation in Multipath Networks

Packet Selection and Scheduling for Multipath Video Streaming

Media-specific rate allocation in heterogeneous wireless networks

Distributed Media Rate Allocation in Multipath Networks

Efficient Probabilistic Subsumption Checking for Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Systems

Minimum Payments that Reward Honest Reputation Feedback

Using CHI-Scores to Reward Honest Feedback from Repeated Interactions

Media-Specific Rate Allocation in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Distributed Media Rate Allocation in Overlay Networks

Media Streaming with Conservative Delay on Variable Rate Channels

Community-Aware Event Dissemination

Fast Probabilistic Subsumption Checking for Publish/Subscribe Systems

Media-Specific Rate Allocation in Multipath Networks

Reputation-based Service Level Agreements for Web Services

Enforcing Truthful Strategies in Incentive Compatible Reputation Mechanisms

CONFESS: Eliciting Honest Feedback without Independent Verification Authorities

Eliminating Undesired Equilibrium Points from Incentive Compatible Reputation Mechanisms

Reputation-based Pricing of P2P Services

Media Aware Routing in Large Scale Networks with Overlay

Eliminating Undesired Equilibrium Points from Incentive Compatible Reputation Mechanisms

Truthful Reputation Information in Electronic Markets without Independent Verification

Eliciting Truthful Feedback for Binary Reputation Mechanisms

"CONFESS". An Incentive Compatible Reputation Mechanism for the Online Hotel Booking Industry

Distortion Optimized Multipath Video Streaming

Optimal FEC Rate for Media Streaming in Active Networks

Packet Selection and Scheduling for Multipath Video Streaming

Joint Synchronization, Routing and Energy Saving in Multi-hop Hybrid Networks

Truthful Reputation Information in Electronic Markets without Independent Verification

Joint Synchronization, Routing and Energy Saving in CSMA/CA Multi-Hop Hybrid Networks

An Incentive Compatible Reputation Mechanism

Towards Incentive-Compatible Reputation Management

Teaching & PhD

Past EPFL PhD Students

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