IIA Supervising faculty: David Sarne

“Am I Rational?” Portal Goal: web-site for allowing people test their decision-making/problem- solving skills and level of rationality through game playing and riddle solving Help society! Components: (a) Web-site management; (b) “Game” module and games management; (c) User management; (d) Comparison to other users; (e) DB management; Other tasks – light reading of scientific papers for enriching the games library Technology – c#, client-server (browser-based), simple storage (files/basic DB) Team: 4 students Ideal team member – GUI and IUI-oriented, capable of producing aesthetic designs, studying in parallel to project

Probabilistic Winner Determination in Auctions Goal: develop a web-based auction that supports probabilistic winner determination (a continuation project) Components: (a) Web-site for running the auction; (b) database for managing bids; (c) User management; (d) results analysis and simulation tools; (e) Advanced (extra credit) – support multi-user Other tasks – running some experiments with AMT Technology – c#, client-server (browser-based), integrate into AMT, simple storage (files/basic DB) Team: 2 students Ideal team member – GUI and IUI-oriented, capable of producing aesthetic designs

Selection Among Complex Alternatives Goal: develop an application (best – for android, acceptable – browser- based) for allowing people choose between complex alternatives (e.g., Sunglasses selection) Approach used – new method that combines absolute and ordinal valuations of different instances of each alternative (or better – propose your own method) + comparison to the traditional tournament approach Components: (a) client (connection to server only for receiving instances for comparison and reporting results); (b) importing objects for comparison (preferred – sunglasses images); (c) results processing Other tasks – support experimentation Technology – pick your own SDK, Integrate into AMT, simple storage (files/basic DB), results processing Team: 2-3 students Ideal team member – GUI and IUI-oriented, capable of producing aesthetic designs, studying in parallel to project

Whatsapp Data Analysis Goal: Process and Mine a pile of (encrypted) Whatsapp data that was collected last year Approach used – design a DB that will support effective mining (primarily timeline-based) of the collected data, and research few initial hypothesis using standard AI techniques (e.g., clustering, machine learning) Other components – develop scripts for testing the research hypotheses through repeated re-division into test and training groups Team: 2-3 students Ideal team member – interested in data-science, data-mining, data-bases, data-structures and social networks

Identifying Anomalies in Whatsapp Group Usage Goal - Apply various AI techniques over collected (encrypted) AI data for identifying “unusual” whatsapp groups Approach used – construct a set of measures over the activity over time and relationships between group members and use clustering- like methods for identifying abnormal groups Other components – develop a web-based application for running a validation experiment Team: 2 students Ideal team member – interested in data-science, data-mining, data- bases, data-structures and social networks

General Creativity will be highly appreciated Weekly progress meetings (except for during exams periods) Great emphasis on documentation – including architecture documents, high level designs, code documentation Advanced GUI whenever applicable