Publications

Thesis and Books:
	Kalech, M. Diagnosing Coordination Faults in Multi-Agent Systems, Ph.D. thesis in Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Istrael, 2006 Kalech, M. Data Structures, Opus Press, Tel-Aviv 2002 (in Hebrew) Thesis for MA in Philosophy department: Kalech, M. Leibowich: between Cognitive and Conative, Bar-Ilan 2000 (in Hebrew) (doc version) (pdf version)
Journal Papers:
	Lihi Naamani Dery, Meir Kalech, Lior Rokach, Bracha Shapira, Reaching a Joint Decision with Minimal Elicitation of Voter Preferences, Information Sciences, 2014 Roni Stern, Meir Kalech, Model-Based Diagnosis Techniques for Internet Delay Diagnosis with Dynamic Routing, Applied Intelligence, 2014 Eliahu Khalastchi, Meir Kalech, Gal A. Kaminka, Raz Lin, Online Data Driven Anomaly Detection in Autonomous Robots, Knowledge and Information Systems,2013 Shulamit Reches, Meir Kalech, Choosing a Candidate Using Efficient Allocation of Biased Information, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2013 Ayelet Eyal, Lior Rokach, Meir Kalech, Ofra Amir, Rahul Chougule, Rajkumar Vaidyanathan, and Kallappa Pattada, Survival Analysis of Automobile Components using Mutually Exclusive Forests, Transactions: IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics: Systems, 2013 (in Press) Shulamit Reches, Meir Kalech, Philip Hendrix, A Framework for Effectively Choosing between Alternative Candidate Partners, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2013  (in Press) Roni Stern, Meir Kalech, Ariel Felner, Finding Patterns in an Unknown Graph, AI-Communications, 25(3): 229-256, 2012 Meir Kalech, Diagnosis of Coordination Faults: A Matrix-Based Approach, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent System, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 69-103, 2012 Lior Rokach, Meir Kalech, Ido Blank, Rami Stern, Who is Going to Win the Next AAAI Fellowship Award? Evaluating Researchers by Mining Bibliographic Data, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), volume 62, issue 12, pp. 2456-2470, 2011 Meir Kalech,  Sarit Kraus, Gal A. Kaminka, Claudia V. Goldman, Practical voting rules with partial information, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent System, 22:151–182, 2011 Meir Kalech, Gal A Kaminka, Coordination Diagnostic Algorithms for Teams of Situated Agents: Scaling-Up, Computational Intelligence, volume 27 issue 3, pp. 393-421, 2011 Michael Lindner, Meir Kalech, Gal A. Kaminka, A Representation for Coordination Fault Detection in Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 56, 2, pp. 153-186, 2009 Kalech, M. Kaminka, On the Design of Coordination Diagnosis Algorithms for Teams of Situated Agents, Artificial Intelligence Journal, 71, 2007 pp. 491-513
Refereed Conference Papers:
	Tom Zamir, Roni Stern, Meir Kalech: Using Model-Based Diagnosis to Improve Software Testing. , in The Twenty-Eighth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-14), 2014: 1135-1141 (Acceptance rate: 28%) Eliahu Khalastchi, Meir Kalech, Lior Rokach, A Hybrid Approach for Fault Detection in Autonomous Physical Agents, the 13th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-14), 2014 (Acceptance rate: 23%) Lior Rokach, Meir Kalech, Gregory Provan, Alexander Feldman, Machine-Learning-Based Circuit Synthesis, in the Twenty-seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-13), Beijing 2013 (Acceptance rate: 26%) Eliahu Khalastchi, Meir Kalech, Lior Rokach, Sensor fault detection and diagnosis for autonomous systems, in the Twelve International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-13), 2013 (Acceptance rate: 22%) Amit Metodi, Roni Stern, Meir Kalech and Michael Codish, Compiling Model-Based Diagnosis to Boolean Satisfaction,  in The Twenty-Sixth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-12), Toronto, 2012 (Acceptance rate: 26%) Roni Stern, Meir Kalech, Alexander Feldman, Gregory Provan, Exploring the Duality in Conflict-Directed Model-Based Diagnosis, in The Twenty-Sixth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-12), Toronto, 2012 (Acceptance rate: 26%) Meir Kalech, Shulamit Reches, Rami Stern, When to Stop? That is the Question, in The Twenty-Fifth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-11), San-Francisco, 2011 (Acceptance rate: 24%) Eliahu Khalastchi, Meir Kalech, Gal A. Kaminka and Raz Lin, Online Anomaly Detection in Unmanned Vehicles, in  the Tenth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-11), Taiwan 2011 (Acceptance rate: 22%) Lihi Naamani Dery, Meir Kalech, Lior Rokach, Bracha Shapira, Iterative Voting under Uncertainty for Group Recommender Systems, in ACM Recommender Systems, Barcelona 2010 (Acceptance rate: 42.3%) Meir Kalech, Avi Pfeffer, Decision Making with Dynamically Arriving Information, the Ninth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-10), 2010 (acceptance rate: 23.7%) Asaf Shiloni, Alon Levy, Ariel Felner and Meir Kalech, Ants Meeting Algorithms, the Ninth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-10), 2010 (acceptance rate: 23.7%). An earlier version appeared in the 10th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation. May 2009 Kalech, M. Lindner M. Kaminka G. A., “Matrix-Based Representation for Coordination Fault Detection: A Formal Approach”, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent System (AAMAS), 2007 (Acceptance rate: 22.8%). An earlier version appeared in the Workshop on Modeling Others from Observations, the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-05), 2005 Kalech, M. Kaminka, A. G. Meisels, A. Elmaliah, Y., Diagnosis of Multi-Robot Coordination Failures Using Distributed CSP Algorithms, The Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), 2006 (Acceptance rate: 21%). An earlier version appeared in The 3rd Monet Workshop on Model-Based Systems, The 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-06), 2006 Kalech, M. Kaminka, A. G., Diagnosing a Team of Agents: Scaling-Up, the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-05), 2005 (Acceptance rate: 24.5%). An earlier version appeared in the Fifteenth International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-04), 2004 Kalech, M. Kaminka, A. G., Towards Model-Based Diagnosis of Coordination Failures, the Twenty National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), 2005. An earlier version appeared in the Sixteenth International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-05), 2005 (Acceptance rate: 18.4%) Kalech, M. Kaminka, A. G. On the Design of Social Diagnosis Algorithms for Multi-Agent Teams, the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-03), Acapulco 2003 (Acceptance rate: 20.7%) Gal A. Kaminka, Yehuda Elmaliach, Inna Frenkel, Ruti Glick, Meir Kalech, Tom Shpigelman, Towards a Comprehensive Framework for Teamwork in Behavior-Based Robots, Conference on Intelligence Autonomous System 8, 2003
Workshop papers:
	Eliahu Khalastchi, Meir Kalech and Lior Rokach, Improving a Multiagent Team with a Model-Based Diagnosing Coach, in the Twenty Fifth International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-14), Graz, 2014 Roni Stern, Meir Kalech, Repair Planning with Batch Repair, in the Twenty Fifth International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-14), Graz, 2014 Roni Stern, Meir Kalech, Orel Elimelech, Hierarchical Diagnosis in Strong Fault Models, in the Twenty Fifth International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-14), Graz, 2014 Roni Stern, Meir Kalech, Alexander Feldman,  Shelly Rogov, Tom Zamir, Finding All Diagnoses is Redundant, in the Twenty Fourth International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-13), Jerusalem, 2013 Eliahu Khalastchi, Meir Kalech ,Lior Rokach, A Hybrid Approach for Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Autonomous Systems, in the Twenty Fourth International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-13), Jerusalem, 2013 Yedidya Bar-Zeev, Meir Kalech ,Roni Stern, Diagnosing the Root Cause of Accidents in Autonomous Vehicle Environments, in the Twenty Fourth International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-13), Jerusalem, 2013 Roni Stern, Meir Kalech, Stas Osipov, Natan Semyonov, MBD Techniques for Internet Delay Diagnosis with Dynamic Routing, in the Twenty Third International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-12), UK, 2012 Roni Stern, Meir Kalech, Niv Gafni, Yair Ofir, Eliav Ben-Zaken, Using Model-Based Diagnosis to Improve Software Testing, in the Twenty Third International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-12), UK, 2012 Eliahu Khalastchi, Meir Kalech ,Lior Rokach, Yotam Shicel and Gali Bodek, Sensor fault detection and diagnosis for autonomous systems, in the Twenty Third International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-12), UK, 2012 Eliahu Khalastchi, Meir Kalech ,Lior Rokach, Multi-Layered Model Based Diagnosis in Robots, , in the Twenty Third International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-12), UK, 2012 Betty Keren, Meir Kalech, Lior Rokach, Model-Based Diagnosis with Multi-Label Classification, in the Nineteenth International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-11), Murnau 2011 Vladimir Sadov, Eliahu Khalastchi, Meir Kalech, Gal Kaminka, Towards Partial (and Useful) Model Identification for Model-Based Diagnosis, in the Eighteenth International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-10), Portland 2010 Roni Stern, Meir Kalech, MBD Techniques for Internet Delay Diagnosis, in the Eighteenth International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-10), Portland 2010 Roni Stern, Meir Kalech and Ariel Felner, Searching for a k-Clique in Unknown Graphs, in Symposium on Combinatorial Search, 2010 Roie Zivan, Uri Shapen, Amnon Meisels, and Meir Kalech. Hybrid Search for Dynamically Changing CSPs, Annual ERCIM Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming (CSCLP 2008), 2008 Kalech, M. Lindner, M. Kaminka, A. G., Diagnosis of Coordination Faults: A Matrix-Based Formulation, in the Sixteenth International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-08), 2008 Kalech, M. Kaminka, A. G., Modelling multi-agent systems as constraints for model-based diagnosis, in the Workshop on Modeling and Solving Problems with Constraints, the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-05), 2005
Abstract and Posters:
	Yedidia Bar-Zeev, Roni Stern, Meir Kalech: Diagnosing Faults in a Temporal Multi-Agent Resource Allocation, in the 13th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-14), 2014 Roni Stern, Meir Kalech and Ariel Felner, Searching for a k-Clique in Unknown Graphs, the Ninth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-10), 2010 (in press) Kalech, M. Kaminka, A. G., Model-based Diagnosis of Multi-agent Systems the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-05),2005 (student abstract) Kalech, M. Kaminka, A. G., Diagnosing a Team of Agents: Scaling-Up, the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-04), 2004 Kalech, M. Kaminka, A. G. Diagnosing multi-agent Systems, in IEEE International Conference on Software, Science, Technology and Engineering, 2003 (student abstract)