Projects @ IIASupervising 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 89-514 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 89-514 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