Boi Faltings
Full Professor
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Fields of expertise
Artificial intelligence, Constraint programming, Multi-agent systems, Electronic commerce, Computational game theory
Biography
Professor Faltings joined EPFL in 1987 as professor of Artificial Intelligence. He holds a PhD degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a diploma from the ETHZ. His research has spanned different areas of intelligent systems linked to model-based reasoning. In particular, he has contributed to qualitative spatial reasoning, case-based reasoning (especially for design problems), constraint satisfaction for design and logistics problems, multi-agent systems, and intelligent user interfaces. His current work is oriented towards multi-agent systems and social computing, using concepts of game theory, constraint optimization and machine learning. In 1999, Professor Faltings co-founded Iconomic Systems, a company that developed a new agent-based paradigm for travel e-commerce. He has since co-founded 5 other startup companies and advised several others. Prof. Faltings has published more than 150 refereed papers on his work, and participates regularly in program committees of all major conferences in the field. He has served as associate editor of of the major journals, including the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) and the Artificial Intelligence Journal. From 1996 to 1998, he served as head of the computer science department.CONTACT
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CURRENT WORK
Multi-agent constraint optimization: we develop methods for optimizing the joint operation of multiple agents, taking into account considerations of communication complexity, uncertainty and privacy.Truthful opinion polls: we develop game-theoretic methods to ensure that information provided by self-interested agents is truthful and accurate, in order to make the wisdom of the crowds more accurate.
Preference-based search (together with HCI group): we develop methods that allow people to find items that best satisfy their preferences in large collections of structured or semi-structured data. We consider scenarios ranging from recommender systems to search in databases using constraints.
Multi-agent learning: we consider systems where multiple agents learn from their own data sources, in scenarios such as wireless channel allocation, recommendation and reputation systems, and information security.
Boi Faltings' research is sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Swiss Federal Commission for Technology Innovation (CTI), and the European Commission.
Publications
Infoscience publications
Infoscience
Incentives for Effort in Crowdsourcing using the Peer Truth Serum
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. 2016. DOI : 10.1145/2856102.Incentives to Counter Bias in Human Computation
2014. p. 59-66.Eliciting Truthful Information with the Peer Truth Serum
The 15th ACM conference on Economics and Computation (EC’14).Incentive Mechanisms for Community Sensing
Ieee Transactions On Computers. 2014. DOI : 10.1109/Tc.2013.150.Eliciting Truthful Measurements from a Community of Sensors
2012. p. 47-54.Incentives for Answering Hypothetical Questions
2011. Workshop on Social Computing and User Generated Content, EC-11.Reporting incentives and biases in online review forums
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB). 2010. DOI : 10.1145/1734200.1734202.A Publish/Subscribe Approach to Processing Continuous Queries over Sensor Streams
Lausanne, EPFL, 2010. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-4681.Continuous Query Evaluation over Distributed Sensor Networks
2010. 26th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2010), Long Beach, California, USA, March 1-6, 2010. p. 912-923.Forward Error Correction for Multipath Media Streaming
IEEE Transactions On Circuits And Systems For Video Technology. 2009. DOI : 10.1109/TCSVT.2009.2022800.Mechanisms for Making Crowds Truthful
Journal Of Artificial Intelligence Research. 2009.Rating aggregation in collaborative filtering systems
2009. 3rd ACM conference on Recommender systems (RecSys 09), New York, New York, USA, 23-25 October 2009. p. 349-352. DOI : 10.1145/1639714.1639785.Aggregating Reputation Feedback
2009. 1st International Conference on Reputation: Theory and Technology, Gargonza, Italy, March 2009. p. 62-74.Processing Publish/Subscribe Queries over Distributed Data Streams
2009. DEBS 2009 3rd ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems, Nashville, TN, July 6-9, 2009.Truthful Opinions from the Crowds
ACM SIGEcom Exchanges. 2008.Incentives for Expressing Opinions in Online Polls
2008. p. 119-128.System and method for monitoring quality of service
US8843385 ; US2008137550 . 2008.Query Driven Operator Placement for Complex Event Detection over Data Streams
2008. 3rd IEEE European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context (EuroSSC), Zurich, Switzerland, October 29-31, 2008.Distributed Media Rate Allocation in Multipath Networks
Signal Processing: Image Communications. 2008.Understanding User Behavior in Online Feedback Reporting
2007. p. 134-142.Robust Incentive-Compatible Feedback Payments
Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce; Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2007. p. 204-218.Reporting Incentives in Online Feedback Forums: The Influence of Effort
2007Reliable QoS Monitoring Based on Client Feedback
2007. p. 1003-1011.Providing Cooperative Incentives through the Structure of Social Networks
2007Obtaining Reliable Feedback for Sanctioning Reputation Mechanisms
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR). 2007.Incentive-compatible Online Opinion Polls
2007Governing Environments for Agent-based Traffic Simulations
2007.Collusion Resistant, Incentive Compatible Feedback Payments
2007. p. 200-209.Automated Dynamic Maintenance of Composite Services Based on Service Reputation
2007. p. 449-455.Automated Design of Prediction Market Pricing Functions
2007Truthful reputation mechanisms for online systems
Lausanne, EPFL, 2007. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-3955.Adaptive media streaming over multipath networks
Lausanne, EPFL, 2007. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-3908.Joint Network and Rate Allocation for Video Streaming over Multiple Wireless Networks
2007. IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia.Joint Network and Rate Allocation for Simultaneous Wireless Applications
2007. International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Beijing, China, July 2007.Enabling Adaptive Video Streaming in P2P Systems
IEEE Communications Magazine. 2007.Packet Media Streaming with Imprecise Rate Estimation
Journal on Advances in Multimedia, Hindawi Press. 2007.Media Flow Rate Allocation in Multipath Networks
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 2007. DOI : 10.1109/TMM.2007.902852.Packet Selection and Scheduling for Multipath Video Streaming
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 2007.Media-specific rate allocation in heterogeneous wireless networks
Journal of Zhejiang University - Science A. 2006. DOI : 10.1631/jzus.2006.A0713.Distributed Media Rate Allocation in Multipath Networks
2006Efficient Probabilistic Subsumption Checking for Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Systems
2006. 7th International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2006), Melbourne, Australia, November 27 - December 1, 2006.Minimum Payments that Reward Honest Reputation Feedback
2006. p. 190-199.Using CHI-Scores to Reward Honest Feedback from Repeated Interactions
2006. p. 1233-1240.Media-Specific Rate Allocation in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
2006.Distributed Media Rate Allocation in Overlay Networks
2006.Media Streaming with Conservative Delay on Variable Rate Channels
2006.Community-Aware Event Dissemination
2006Fast Probabilistic Subsumption Checking for Publish/Subscribe Systems
2006Media-Specific Rate Allocation in Multipath Networks
2005Reputation-based Service Level Agreements for Web Services
Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC - 2005); 2005. p. 396-409.Enforcing Truthful Strategies in Incentive Compatible Reputation Mechanisms
Internet and Network Economics; Springer Verlag, 2005. p. 268-277.CONFESS: Eliciting Honest Feedback without Independent Verification Authorities
Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce VI: AAMAS 2004 Workshop; Springer, 2005. p. 59-72.Eliminating Undesired Equilibrium Points from Incentive Compatible Reputation Mechanisms
2005.Reputation-based Pricing of P2P Services
2005.Media Aware Routing in Large Scale Networks with Overlay
2005.Eliminating Undesired Equilibrium Points from Incentive Compatible Reputation Mechanisms
2005Truthful Reputation Information in Electronic Markets without Independent Verification
2004Eliciting Truthful Feedback for Binary Reputation Mechanisms
2004. p. 214-220."CONFESS". An Incentive Compatible Reputation Mechanism for the Online Hotel Booking Industry.
2004. p. 205-212.Distortion Optimized Multipath Video Streaming
2004.Optimal FEC Rate for Media Streaming in Active Networks
2004. p. 1319-1322.Packet Selection and Scheduling for Multipath Video Streaming
2004Joint Synchronization, Routing and Energy Saving in Multi-hop Hybrid Networks
2004Truthful Reputation Information in Electronic Markets without Independent Verification
2004Joint Synchronization, Routing and Energy Saving in CSMA/CA Multi-Hop Hybrid Networks
2004. 1st IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems MASS 2004, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. p. 10.An Incentive Compatible Reputation Mechanism
2003. p. 285-292.Towards Incentive-Compatible Reputation Management
Trust, Reputation and Security: Theories and Practice; Springer-Verlag, 2003. p. 138-147.Selected publications
| R. Jurca and B. Faltings Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 34, 2009, pp. 209-253. |
Mechanisms for Making Crowds Truthful |
| R. Jurca and B. Faltings Proceeddings of the 2008 ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, July, 2008, pp. 119-128 |
Truthful Opinions from the Crowds |
| A. Petcu and B. Faltings Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-07, Hyderabad, India, Jan, 2007, pp. 1452-1457 |
MB-DPOP: A New Memory-Bounded Algorithm for Distributed Optimization |
| P. Viappiani, B. Faltings and P. Pu Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 27, 2006, pp. 465-503 |
Preference-based Search using Example-Critiquing with Suggestions |
| B. Faltings In Handbook of Constraint Programming, Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Francesca Rossi, Peter van Beek, Toby Walsh (ed.), 2006, pp. 699-729 |
Distributed Constraint Programming |
| C. Frei, B. Faltings, and M. Hamdi IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, 23(2), February, 2005, pp. 304-320 |
Resource Allocation in Communication Networks Using Abstraction and Constraint Satisfaction |
| B. Faltings and S. Macho-Gonzalez Artificial Intelligence, 161 (1-2), January, 2005, pp. 181-208 |
Open Constraint Programming |
Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Computer Science
Communication Systems