Radu Jurca I am currently a Software Engineer at Google Zurich. I finished my PhD in November 2007, in the Artificial Intelligence Lab, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). Contact details: e-mail: phone: NA fax: NA Mail: NA

Research Interests

online reputation mechanisms, social networks, rational computation, multi-agent systems, simulation of complex systems.

Short Biography

 

2002 - present:	- PhD Student, Artificial Intelligence Lab, EPFL, Switzerland
2001 - 2002:	- Graduate School in Computer Science, EPFL, Switzerland
1996 - 2001:	- M.Sc., Computer Science Department, Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara, Romania

Recent Publications

R. Jurca. Truthful Reputation Mechanisms for Online Systems. PhD Thesis 3955, EPFL, 2007

R. Jurca and B. Faltings. Obtaining Reliable Feedback for Sanctioning Reputation Mechanisms. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), volume 29, pp. 391-419, 2007. [BibTeX Entry]

R. Jurca and B. Faltings. Collusion Resistant, Incentive Compatible Feedback Payments. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on E-Commerce (EC'07), pp. 200-209, San Diego, June 11-15 2007. [PS] [BibTeX Entry]

A. Talwar, R. Jurca and B. Faltings. Understanding User Behavior in Online Feedback Reporting. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on E-Commerce (EC'07), pp. 134-142, San Diego, June 11-15 2007. [PS] [BibTeX Entry]

R. Jurca, W. Binder and B. Faltings. Reliable QoS Monitoring Based on Client Feedback. Proceedings of the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW07), pp. 1003-1011, Banff, Canada, May 8-12 2007. [PS] [BibTeX Entry]

R. Jurca and B. Faltings. Minimum Payments that Reward Honest Reputation Feedback. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC2006), pp. 190-199, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 11-15 2006. [PS] [BibTeX Entry]

Work in progress:

R. Jurca and B. Faltings. Truthful Rewards for Adverse Selection Feedback Mechanisms.
submitted.

Teaching

Teaching Assistant:

Artificial Intelligence, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

 

Supervised Student Projects:

Current projects:

 

Past projects:

Factoring User Preferences when Aggregating Online Feedback.
Internship, 2006
by Arjun Talwar

Reliable QoS Monitoring using Reputation Mechanisms.
Master project, 2006
by Romain Revol

Agent-based Simulation of the Swiss Highway Network.
Master project, 2005-2006
by Laurent Grangier

Agent-based Simulation of Intelligent Highways.
Semester project, summer semester 2005-2006
by Cedric Meichtry

A Framework for Implementing Reputation Mechanisms using Web Services.
Semester project, summer semester, 2004-2005
by Swalp Rastogi

A Framework for Testing an Incentive Compatible Reputation Mechanism.
Semester project, summer semester, 2004-2005
by Aurelien Frossard

Reliable Reputation Mechanisms by using Probabilistic Filtering Mechanisms.
Semester project, winter semester, 2004-2005
by Swalp Rastogi and Rui Guo