General Information
NameProf. Guy Shani
DepartmentDepartment of Software and Information Systems Engineering
Emailshanigu@bgu.ac.il
Personal Web SitePersonal Web Site
Academic RankProfessor
FunctionDeputy Head of the Software Engineering Program , Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering


Book in Series

 
[1] Shani G., Prioritizing point-based POMDP solvers, SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, BERLIN, 389-400, (2006).
[2] Shani G., Model-based online learning of POMDPs, SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, BERLIN, 353-364, (2005).

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Journal Articles

 
[1] Shani G., Fast item-based collaborative filtering, 7th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2015). Proceedings, vol.2, 457 - 63, (2015).
[2] Shani G., Partially observable online contingent planning using landmark heuristics, Proceedings International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS, 2014-January, January, 163 - 171, (2014).
[3] Shani G., Privacy preserving landmark detection, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 263, 597 - 602, (2014).
[4] Shani G., On the properties of belief tracking for online contingent planning using regression, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 263, 147 - 152, (2014).
[5] Shani G., Pineau, Joelle, Kaplow, Robert, A survey of point-based POMDP solvers, , 27, 1--51, (2013).
[6] Shani G., Recommending improved configurations for complex objects with an application in travel planning, RecSys 2013 - Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, WS-13-11, 391 - 394, (2013).
[7] Shani G., Leveraging the citation graph to recommend keywords, RecSys 2013 - Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 359 - 362, (2013).
[8] Shani G., Investigating confidence displays for top-N recommendations, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 64, 12, 2548 - 2563, (2013).
[9] Shani G., Displaying relevance scores for search results, SIGIR 2013 - Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 901 - 904, (2013).
[10] Shani G., Qualitative planning under partial observability in multi-agent domains, Proceedings of the 27th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2013, 130 - 137, (2013).
[11] Bar, Ariel, Shani G., Schclar, Alon, Boosting Simple Collaborative Filtering Models Using Ensemble Methods, , abs/1205.1357, 339-348, (2012).
[12] Brafman, Shani G., Ronen, A multi-path compilation approach to contingent planning, , 25, 9--15, (2012).
[13] Brafman, Shani G., I ., Taig, Ran, Position Paper—Leveraging Classical Planners through Translations, , 6, (2012).
[14] Brafman, Shani G., I ., Replanning in domains with partial information and sensing actions, , 45, 565--600, (2012).
[15] Raphael, Shani G., Christopher, The Skyline algorithm for POMDP value function pruning, , 65, 61--77, (2012).
[16] Shani G., Gunawardana, Asela, Meek, Christopher, Unsupervised hierarchical probabilistic segmentation of discrete events, , 15, 483--501, (2011).
[17] Shani G., Evaluating point-based POMDP solvers on multicore machines, , 40, 1062--1074, (2010).
[18] Shani G., Topological Order Planner for POMDPs, , 1684-1689, (2009).
[19] Shani G., Bayesian Real-Time Dynamic Programming, , 1784-1789, (2009).
[20] Shani G., Searching large indexes on tiny devices: optimizing binary search with character pinning, , 257-266, (2009).
[21] Gunawardana, Shani G., Asela, A survey of accuracy evaluation metrics of recommendation tasks, , 10, 2935--2962, (2009).
[22] Shani G., Efficient ADD Operations for Point-Based Algorithms, , 330-337, (2008).
[23] Shani G., Mining recommendations from the web, , 35-42, (2008).
[24] Shani G., Prioritizing Point-Based POMDP Solvers, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B, 38, 6, 1592-1605, (2008).
[25] Shani G., Point-Based Value Iteration Algorithms for Multi-Core Machines, , (2008).
[26] Shani G., Scaling Up: Solving POMDPs through Value Based Clustering, , 1290-1295, (2007).
[27] Shani G., Establishing User Profiles in the MediaScout Recommender System, , 470-476, (2007).
[28] Shani G., Forward Search Value Iteration for POMDPs, , 2619-2624, (2007).
[29] Shani G., An MDP-based recommender system, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 6, 1265-1295, (2005).
[30] Shani G., Resolving Perceptual Aliasing In The Presence Of Noisy Sensors, , (2004).
[31] Shani G., Recommendation as a Stochastic Sequential Decision Problem, , 164-173, (2003).
[32] Shani G., An MDP-based Recommender System, , 453-460, (2002).

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Conference Proceedings

 
[1] Chapnik, Shani G., Eyal, Siboni, Gali, Recommending Insurance Riders, 247-268, (2013).
[2] Moreno Orly, Shani G., TALMUD – Transfer Learning for Multiple Domains, ACM, (2012).
[3] Katz, Shani G., Gilad, Using Wikipedia to Boost SVD Recommender Systems, 19-36, (2012).
[4] Moreno, Orly, Shani G., TALMUD: transfer learning for multiple domains, 425--434, (2012).
[5] Shani G., Using Wikipedia to boost collaborative filtering techniques, Recsys 2011, (2011).
[6] Shani G., Brafman, I ., Replanning in domains with partial information and sensing actions, AI Access Foundation, 2021--2026, (2011).
[7] Meek, Shani G., A ., Automated learning of failure recovery policies, (2011).
[8] Shani G., Chrysanthakopoulos George, Augmenting Appearance Based Localization and Navigation using Belief Update, The 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagents Systems (AAMAS), (2010).
[9] Amato Christopher, Shani G., High-level Reinforcement Learning in Strategy Games, The 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagents Systems (AAMAS), (2010).
[10] Chrysanthakopoulos, Shani G., George, Augmenting appearance-based localization and navigation using belief update, 559--566, (2010).
[11] Shani G., Meek, Christopher, Improving existing fault recovery policies, 1642--1650, (2009).
[12] Shani G., Meek, Christopher, Gunawardana, Asela, Hierarchical probabilistic segmentation of discrete events, 974--979, (2009).
[13] Shani G., Meek, Christopher, Paek, Tim, Thiesson, Bo, Venolia, Danielle ., Searching large indexes on tiny devices: optimizing binary search with character pinning, 257--266, (2009).
[14] Shani G., Meisels, Amnon, Piratla, Nischal, An interactive hybrid recommender system, (2008).
[15] Shani G., Recommender System from Personal Social Networks, Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference, 47-55, (2007).
[16] Shani G., Recommender System from Personal Social Networks, AWIC - 5th Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference 2007, Springer, (2007).
[17] Shani G., Establishing User Profiles in the MediaScout Recommender System, cidm - Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining, IEEE, (2007).
[18] Shani G., A Stereotypes-Based Hybrid Recommender System for Media Items, AAAI Workshop on Recommender Systems, (2007).
[19] Shani G., Meisles, Amnon, Gleyzer, Yan, Ben-Shimon, David, A stereotypes-based hybrid recommender system for media items, (2007).
[20] Brafman, Shani G., I ., Shimony, E ., Partial observability under noisy sensors--from model-free to model-based, 10, (2005).
[21] Shani G., Brafman, R, Shimony, S, Adaptation for changing stochastic environments through online POMDP policy learning, 61--70, (2005).
[22] Shani G., Brafman, I ., Resolving perceptual aliasing in the presence of noisy sensors, (2004).
[23] Shani G., Brafman, I ., Shimony, E ., Learning POMDP Models Using Noisy Sensors, (0).
[24] Shani G., Brafman, I ., Shimony, E ., Partial Observability Under Noisy Sensors—From Model-Free To Model-Based Methods, (0).
[25] Shani G., Brafman, I ., Shimony, E ., Solving POMDPs Using Relaxed Models Heuristics, (0).
[26] Shani G., Task-Based Decomposition of Factored POMDPs, (0).

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Technical Report

 
[1] Carlson, M ., Shani G., Heckerman, David, (23882/2009), Estimating false discovery rates for contingency tables, (2009).
[2] Shani G., (23890/2004), A survey of model-based and model-free methods for resolving perceptual aliasing, (2004).

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misc

 
[1] Shani G., Meisels, Amnon, Piratla, Nischal, Interactive hybrid recommender system, (2011).
[2] Shani G., Tutorial on evaluating recommender systems, (2010).
[3] Chrysanthakopoulos, Shani G., Georgios, TOPOLOGICAL-BASED LOCALIZATION AND NAVIGATION, (2009).
[4] Heckerman, E ., Shani G., Luo, Martin, Ali, Alam ., Modifying advertisement scores based on advertisement response probabilities, (2008).

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phdthesis

 
[1] Shani G., Learning and solving partially observable markov decision processes, (2007).

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incollection

 
[1] Shani G., Gunawardana, Asela, Evaluating recommendation systems, Springer, (2011).

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